Pretty soon, all that will be left in Louisville’s downtown core will be tumbleweeds, coyotes and homeless people.
Just a few months after LG&E announced it was abandoning its longtime headquarters at Third and Main, Humana announced Monday it was walking away from its iconic home at Fifth and Main and putting all its workers into a couple of buildings farther east on Main Street.
Mayor Craig Greenberg’s response came with a wisp of smoke blown up our collective rear end.
“(W)e view this as an opportunity for future growth,” he said in a statement. “The mayor’s office is looking forward to ongoing conversations with Humana and other partners about how this property’s next chapter will continue to be an asset to our beautiful, vibrant downtown.”
An “opportunity?”
Are you kidding me?
That’s like saying the 1974 tornado in Louisville provided a chance to plant new trees at Cherokee Park and to put a new roof on Freedom Hall.
Gimme a break.
It’s horrible news and it makes Louisville’s downtown anything but “vibrant,” the same term Greenberg used when he hailed the opening of the Churchill Downs slot machine parlor in December.