Lexington Development

Lexington FOP moving headquarters to suburbs

An unfinished office and retail building next to the former restaurant bought by the FOP is near completion.

After 60 years of meeting in the same building at 224 North Martin Luther King Boulevard, the Lexington Fraternal Order of Police has bought a building in the suburbs and will move its headquarters in the next several weeks.

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LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

Lexington council approves $68 million for projects

Urban County Council on Thursday approved $68 million in bonds for projects, including $2.2 million for infrastructure in the Distillery District and $12.5 million for sidewalks and rain gardens downtown.
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

Council to consider bonds for Distillery District, other projects

Tough choices face Urban County Council members Thursday when they must decide which of about 90 city projects to finance with city bonds — and which ones to keep on the waiting list.
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

Lexington council meets partner in proposed distillery

Urban County Council members on Tuesday met the man who is putting together financing for a bourbon distillery in the Lexington Distillery District.
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

2 old buildings getting new life

Two buildings that housed Thompson & Riley auction house and the company's real estate offices for many years are being renovated by Bob Cole, president of the Coleman Group, a commercial real estate and property management company.
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

Lexington council OKs moratorium on dorm-like home additions

Lexington's Urban County Council on Thursday approved a moratorium on home additions that would be 25 percent greater than the original structure.
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

Horse farm fence being built around CentrePointe site downtown

The horse farm motif is used everywhere from our jail to our schools. Why not on an empty block in the middle of downtown Lexington?
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

Bank gives $750,000 for downtown Lexington pavilion

Fifth Third Bank has donated $750,000 for the naming rights of a pavilion to be built in Cheapside Park adjoining the old Fayette County Courthouse.
BUSINESS

Financing approved for public projects near CentrePointe development

A state board gave final approval Thursday to the Urban County Government's plan for public improvements around the CentrePointe project in downtown Lexington.
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

Tom Eblen: Lexington should learn lesson from CentrePointe

Fourteen months after the CentrePointe development was announced, all that exists is a crater full of mud.
LEXINGTON DEVELOPMENT

CentrePointe discussion gets heated at city hall

A defiant Dudley Webb chastised the Urban County Council on Tuesday for carping about his CentrePointe project, saying the fate of the delayed development's funding would be known in the next 60 to 90 days.