LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Community leaders held a meeting Friday urging Louisville Metro Government to advance a west end development project.
The property near the corner of 11th and Hill streets, once home to the Rhodia chemical plant, has been vacant since 1994, and the process to get to the point of development has taken years.
Metro Government, which bought the 17-acre site in 2002, selected Re:land Group in 2020 to eventually buy and redevelop the property for mixed-use and mixed-income housing. Metro Council allocated $10 million in coronavirus stimulus funds for property cleanup…