Mike Bloomberg, lifelong Mayor of New York City, is a very rich man. He has philanthropic goals — recently giving $50M to the Sierra Club to fight King Coal — and now his Philantrhopies are going to hand out $5 million to one city and $1 million each to four other cities for the boldest most replicable ideas. Here, he dropped a very small coin on this video which explains it all: Lexington Mayor Jim Gray is opening the challenge up to the community — in addition to...
Read moreA new design, a new sign and now a new promise of imminent financing! WEKU reports 8 construction firms are about to bid on the Webb’s CentrePointe project, according to Dudley, who also had this to say: “Well I think the deal is more financeable than it’s ever been..the contractors are obviously gonna give us the prices and they’ll go into the final mortgage package that the lenders will review…and they’ll issue a commitment based on those prices,” said Webb. ...
Read moreBeverly Fortune takes a long and fascinating look at Lexington’s first skyscraper, which would be home to the new 21c Hotel, which is chock-full of good stuff like this: McKim, Mead & White designed at least one other Lexington project — Union Station, which was on East Main Street from 1907 to 1960 in the area where police headquarters is now. Stanford White, one of McKim, Mead & White’s principals, was shot to death in 1906 in Madison Square Garden by Harry Kendall...
Read moreThe Herald Editorial Board is bang on: Across the street from the 21c site there once was a collection of some of Lexington’s most historic commercial buildings we now have grassland. But then came CentrePointe, a $250 million hotel-condo-office-retail project proposed for the block bounded by Main, Limestone, Upper and Vine. Despite intense opposition, the developer, the Webb Companies, got permission to tear down the buildings on the block, including those in the protected...
Read moreFailed one-term mayor and sore loser Jim Newberry was feeling especially bitter this Easter Sunday. He was busy sulking that he didn’t get to hang out with all of the Kool Kids during the UK basketball fun times, when he decided to let his pathetic internal feelings go outward, posting this to his Facebook “fan” page: Run again, Jim. Pleeeeeeeease run again. XOXO and nothing of any consequence, Joe
