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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Mayor. Craig Greenberg is joining us. Good to
see you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's great to be here. It's great to be in
the warm studio. Chill eat it out.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Thanks for the cold walk.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
But it is going to be a wonderful night tomorrow night.
I know we'll get to that, but it's gonna be
warmer tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, I'm looking forward to it. Terry and I we
had a good time with you guys last year, and
we'll discuss.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
That in just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Kevin gave me a few notes and I wanted to
ask you because and this was on my agenda as well,
and that is this Louisville Sports Entertainment District right there
at Slugger Museum.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We need to better now. We need to come with
a better name. That's that's a lot of words. We
have to call it something like the Diamond District, or's
something much better like that. So we're working on that.
But yeah, this is a there is great moment It
had tipped you my colleague Julie for that one. There
is great momentum that's going on in downtown that really
(00:52):
is going on all across the city right now. And
this announcement that we made earlier this week is a
reflection of that. The largest investment in decade that's announced
for downtown Louisville two hundred and fifty plus million dollars
the new owners of the Louisville Bats Diamond Baseball holding.
They're also going to invest in a new really mixed
use neighborhood right there next to the stadium. So it's
(01:13):
going to be two hundred and fifty or more new
rental units of housing, it's going to be a new hotel,
going to be restaurants and retail all right there in downtown,
right next to New lou Again, lots of great things
are happening downtown, and this new investment is going to
be part of it. And so we're going to put
that deal together and we hope construction starts on that
next year. But these are folks that can get it done.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It looks like a really cool kind of intersection between
you know, New lou As absolutely and the rest of
you Market West Mark or East Market and all those
kinds of places.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and also connects right there to waterfront parks. It's
truly in a great connecting spot for all of our
downtown neighborhoods that come together. And I think it's just
the first of many great things that folks are going
to start to see happening over the new year. Now, Mayor,
where gonna park? If I want to go to the Stadi?
We've got you covered, Tony. We're gonna there're gonna be
two new parking garages as part of this. There's going
to be a new parking garage just for the folks
(02:08):
that are living there, and then there'll be a parking
garage that the city likely partners with them on that
will be available for public usage when people go to
the stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
All Right, There's been a lot of other things that
we just haven't had a chance to because the holidays
and right and things going on. Louisville Fire is looking
for some thirty four million dollars in repairs. What's up
of that?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you know, I can't talk to the past before
I was mayor, But when I became mayor, one of
the things that was very clear to me was that
we had underinvested in our firehouses, in our fire apparatus,
in our fire department at large, and as the grandson
of a New York City firefighter, It's always been incredibly
important to me, and I've always greatly respected the men
(02:49):
and women of Louisville Fire and all fire departments that
are such heroes and do such great public service every day.
And I was surprised at the condition of so many
of our firehouses and the age of some of our equipment.
So here we have an opportunity. I'm really thrilled that
thanks to our good fiscal management, to being watching over
every dime, to investing in the city's money, well, we
have a significant surplus, about a sixteen million dollar surplus
(03:12):
last year, and so I'm proposing to invest about five
million of that to start the process of investing in
our firehouses, in our fire equipment, to have great equipment,
great facilities for the men and women of Louisvill Fire.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, just think about all the things that have been happening,
particularly this year. We've had tremendous fires.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I mean everything from saving a woman hanging off the
Second Street bridge, to saving a man who fell into
a building that was being demolished, to dealing with the
explosion just recently on Pain Street. It's been a busy
year for Louisvill Fire.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
As you've talked to the citizens there on Pain Street.
What have you been struck by? And there are still
some concerns some people having trouble I guess getting some
money or something of that nature from Gibbinen.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I've been struck by the resilience. Deputy Marria George
and I recently walked the neighborhood meeting neighbors that have
been impacted, got to see some of the damage both
inside and outside of their homes up close, talked to
them to make sure they were getty. We also went
with Councilman Andrew Owen, who represents that area, to make
sure that the city was doing everything that we can
to be helpful. Of course, this was caused by a
(04:26):
private company, but we still want to be there for
our neighbors in times of need, and so we're trying
to make sure that they understand what the process is working,
make sure they're connected with the company, that their insurance
is on top of it, and that we're helping them
get back on their needs. You know, that's not the
right place for that facility. If it stays in Louisville,
(04:49):
it needs to be somewhere else. I mean, we should
not have significant industrial usage like that right in the
middle of a residential neighborhood. Just kind of answer my
next question. That's going to make place for it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, any ideas of some other locations.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Not around houses. I mean, no neighborhood, it's not just
that neighborhood, it's any neighborhood. I mean that type of
view shouldn't be in the middle of a neighborhood. I
mean when you go down there and I was walking
to see how close it is to homes, just on
the other side of the railroad tracks. I mean, I
think people would be very surprised when you see it
in person. We are so fortunate we lost two great
(05:28):
folks in that tragedy. We're very fortunate we don't lose more.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
More from Mayor Craig Greenberg here on news Radio A
forty whas. We're with Mayor Craig Greenberg here at news
Radio A forty whs, and we're going over a few
things that have been been happening over the last few
weeks because we haven't had a chance to talk to
the mayor. A lot of things going on with the
holidays and the City of Louisville unveiling some new plans
(05:54):
to prevent trespassing fires. You know you've been a part
of this, and also for giving liens on some of
banned homes.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, you know, Tony. We've got about three thousand vacant
and abandoned properties all over this community and pockets of
our community, particularly impacting lower income communities as well, and
many of them never sell because there are so many
code enforcement leans. They might have high grass, they might
have gutters that are down, they might have broken windows,
and they get these leans that continue to accrue interest.
The city's never going to collect on them because the
(06:22):
house isn't going to be sold if we don't do something.
So we came up with a win win strategy where
if somebody buys the house and renovates it to either
live in or renovates it to sell it to a
new family so they can have an home ownership opportunity,
the city's going to waive these code enforcement leans as
long as it's an affordable home, and we've got metrics
that spell out what that means. But it can be
(06:43):
for either a new family to own a home to
rent a home. But we think this is going to
give lots of new families home ownership opportunities. It is
going to revitalize neighborhoods. It's going to improve public safety
because vacant and abandoned properties bring down neighborhoods, then they're
not safe. We want to improve the safety of neighborhoods,
and this is one way to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, that just leads me to this question, and that
is with Section eight housing and those kinds of issues,
wouldn't this be a good way to get people into
their own homes?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, So this is not a Section eight. This is
not a Section eight program. However, if you're on Section
eight and you're looking to do if you start to
make enough income that you graduate from the Section eight
program to buy a home, this would then be a
great opportunity for a starter home for a family or
an individual to buy. Section eight programming is run through
Louisville Metro Housing Authority. They've had a history of challenges,
(07:38):
but I have not been more proud and excited about
the leader, the new leader, Elizabeth Strojan, that we have
of that agency that's making transformative change for our residents
in Louisville Metro Housing Authority. We're going to tear down
Oscar Manor and rebuild it the right way. Plus so
much more is coming in the months ahead thanks to
her leadership and her new team at a louis Metro
(07:58):
Housing Authority.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
How many people have left Dusker Manor? Now where are
they being housed?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
They're going to different places around the community. So they're
going to some other Louisville Metro Housing Authority properties. They're
also going to some other places that are not controlled
by LMHA, but they're going to different places around the community.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All right, tomorrow you're playing what Santa Claus?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'm not gonna play Santa Claus, but I'll be there
with Santa tomorrow. Tony is going to be great. Light
Up Louisville's been going on in our community for nearly
forty years. But this year, this is no hy perbole.
This is going to be the biggest and the best
light Up Louisville ever, with lots of new things promises.
Isn't hyperbole, and it's not just because you and Terry
are joining us for the parade, which starts at six o'clock.
(08:39):
Festivity start tomorrow downtown at three. The light Up Parade,
Lots of Lights Parade is at six o'clock. But we've
got some new things. We've got a holiday themed drone
show by the same people that do Thunder over Louisville.
We have video mapping of Metro Hall. If you've never
seen a video mapping show, it's going to blow your mind.
It's going to transform or Metro Hall into just an
(09:02):
amazing canvas. And that's before the drone show. So come early,
but the parade starts at six. The mapping and the
drone shows right there afterwards. It's free. It's right downtown
on Jefferson Square Park by Metro Hall. There's things to buy,
there's there's gifts, there's food. It's not going to be
as cold as it is today. Bundle up with your family.
(09:23):
Rachel and I are going to be down there. Lots
of my colleagues from our administration and Metro Hall are
going to be down there. It's gonna be a lot
of family fun and the other great thing. So I
hope to see everybody down for Light Up Louisville tomorrow night.
The other great thing that's going on is the Louisville
women's volleyball team. I mean, the national championship has started.
They're playing tonight at seven at the Young Center. You
can come down see them at six o'clock tomorrow night.
(09:44):
Come right over to light up Louisville after they win.
It's going to be a great weekend in Louisville. That is.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I forgot about that. Well, I didn't forget about that,
but I forgot just tying that together. Yeah, excellent idea.
Right downtown is going to be happening. Lots little kid
there lighting up.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Let's talk about Rachel got us some great hats that
we're gonna wear for the parade tomorrow. Man, it's gonna
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's good to see you, mister Mayor.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Great to see you, Tony.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Thanks Bear. Craig Greenberg here at twenty after the hour
here on news radio A forty he to w you
h a sports coming up.
Good morning, Mayor. Craig Greenberg is joining us. Good to
see you.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's great to be here. It's great to be in
the warm studio. Chill eat it out.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Thanks for the cold walk.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
But it is going to be a wonderful night tomorrow night.
I know we'll get to that, but it's gonna be
warmer tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Well, I'm looking forward to it. Terry and I we
had a good time with you guys last year, and
we'll discuss.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
That in just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Kevin gave me a few notes and I wanted to
ask you because and this was on my agenda as well,
and that is this Louisville Sports Entertainment District right there
at Slugger Museum.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
We need to better now. We need to come with
a better name. That's that's a lot of words. We
have to call it something like the Diamond District, or's
something much better like that. So we're working on that.
But yeah, this is a there is great moment It
had tipped you my colleague Julie for that one. There
is great momentum that's going on in downtown that really
(00:52):
is going on all across the city right now. And
this announcement that we made earlier this week is a
reflection of that. The largest investment in decade that's announced
for downtown Louisville two hundred and fifty plus million dollars
the new owners of the Louisville Bats Diamond Baseball holding.
They're also going to invest in a new really mixed
use neighborhood right there next to the stadium. So it's
(01:13):
going to be two hundred and fifty or more new
rental units of housing, it's going to be a new hotel,
going to be restaurants and retail all right there in downtown,
right next to New lou Again, lots of great things
are happening downtown, and this new investment is going to
be part of it. And so we're going to put
that deal together and we hope construction starts on that
next year. But these are folks that can get it done.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It looks like a really cool kind of intersection between
you know, New lou As absolutely and the rest of
you Market West Mark or East Market and all those
kinds of places.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and also connects right there to waterfront parks. It's
truly in a great connecting spot for all of our
downtown neighborhoods that come together. And I think it's just
the first of many great things that folks are going
to start to see happening over the new year. Now, Mayor,
where gonna park? If I want to go to the Stadi?
We've got you covered, Tony. We're gonna there're gonna be
two new parking garages as part of this. There's going
to be a new parking garage just for the folks
(02:08):
that are living there, and then there'll be a parking
garage that the city likely partners with them on that
will be available for public usage when people go to
the stadium.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
All Right, There's been a lot of other things that
we just haven't had a chance to because the holidays
and right and things going on. Louisville Fire is looking
for some thirty four million dollars in repairs. What's up
of that?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, you know, I can't talk to the past before
I was mayor, But when I became mayor, one of
the things that was very clear to me was that
we had underinvested in our firehouses, in our fire apparatus,
in our fire department at large, and as the grandson
of a New York City firefighter, It's always been incredibly
important to me, and I've always greatly respected the men
(02:49):
and women of Louisville Fire and all fire departments that
are such heroes and do such great public service every day.
And I was surprised at the condition of so many
of our firehouses and the age of some of our equipment.
So here we have an opportunity. I'm really thrilled that
thanks to our good fiscal management, to being watching over
every dime, to investing in the city's money, well, we
have a significant surplus, about a sixteen million dollar surplus
(03:12):
last year, and so I'm proposing to invest about five
million of that to start the process of investing in
our firehouses, in our fire equipment, to have great equipment,
great facilities for the men and women of Louisvill Fire.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Well, just think about all the things that have been happening,
particularly this year. We've had tremendous fires.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I mean everything from saving a woman hanging off the
Second Street bridge, to saving a man who fell into
a building that was being demolished, to dealing with the
explosion just recently on Pain Street. It's been a busy
year for Louisvill Fire.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
As you've talked to the citizens there on Pain Street.
What have you been struck by? And there are still
some concerns some people having trouble I guess getting some
money or something of that nature from Gibbinen.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I've been struck by the resilience. Deputy Marria George
and I recently walked the neighborhood meeting neighbors that have
been impacted, got to see some of the damage both
inside and outside of their homes up close, talked to
them to make sure they were getty. We also went
with Councilman Andrew Owen, who represents that area, to make
sure that the city was doing everything that we can
to be helpful. Of course, this was caused by a
(04:26):
private company, but we still want to be there for
our neighbors in times of need, and so we're trying
to make sure that they understand what the process is working,
make sure they're connected with the company, that their insurance
is on top of it, and that we're helping them
get back on their needs. You know, that's not the
right place for that facility. If it stays in Louisville,
(04:49):
it needs to be somewhere else. I mean, we should
not have significant industrial usage like that right in the
middle of a residential neighborhood. Just kind of answer my
next question. That's going to make place for it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, any ideas of some other locations.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Not around houses. I mean, no neighborhood, it's not just
that neighborhood, it's any neighborhood. I mean that type of
view shouldn't be in the middle of a neighborhood. I
mean when you go down there and I was walking
to see how close it is to homes, just on
the other side of the railroad tracks. I mean, I
think people would be very surprised when you see it
in person. We are so fortunate we lost two great
(05:28):
folks in that tragedy. We're very fortunate we don't lose more.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
More from Mayor Craig Greenberg here on news Radio A
forty whas. We're with Mayor Craig Greenberg here at news
Radio A forty whs, and we're going over a few
things that have been been happening over the last few
weeks because we haven't had a chance to talk to
the mayor. A lot of things going on with the
holidays and the City of Louisville unveiling some new plans
(05:54):
to prevent trespassing fires. You know you've been a part
of this, and also for giving liens on some of
banned homes.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, you know, Tony. We've got about three thousand vacant
and abandoned properties all over this community and pockets of
our community, particularly impacting lower income communities as well, and
many of them never sell because there are so many
code enforcement leans. They might have high grass, they might
have gutters that are down, they might have broken windows,
and they get these leans that continue to accrue interest.
The city's never going to collect on them because the
(06:22):
house isn't going to be sold if we don't do something.
So we came up with a win win strategy where
if somebody buys the house and renovates it to either
live in or renovates it to sell it to a
new family so they can have an home ownership opportunity,
the city's going to waive these code enforcement leans as
long as it's an affordable home, and we've got metrics
that spell out what that means. But it can be
(06:43):
for either a new family to own a home to
rent a home. But we think this is going to
give lots of new families home ownership opportunities. It is
going to revitalize neighborhoods. It's going to improve public safety
because vacant and abandoned properties bring down neighborhoods, then they're
not safe. We want to improve the safety of neighborhoods,
and this is one way to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, that just leads me to this question, and that
is with Section eight housing and those kinds of issues,
wouldn't this be a good way to get people into
their own homes?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, So this is not a Section eight. This is
not a Section eight program. However, if you're on Section
eight and you're looking to do if you start to
make enough income that you graduate from the Section eight
program to buy a home, this would then be a
great opportunity for a starter home for a family or
an individual to buy. Section eight programming is run through
Louisville Metro Housing Authority. They've had a history of challenges,
(07:38):
but I have not been more proud and excited about
the leader, the new leader, Elizabeth Strojan, that we have
of that agency that's making transformative change for our residents
in Louisville Metro Housing Authority. We're going to tear down
Oscar Manor and rebuild it the right way. Plus so
much more is coming in the months ahead thanks to
her leadership and her new team at a louis Metro
(07:58):
Housing Authority.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
How many people have left Dusker Manor? Now where are
they being housed?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
They're going to different places around the community. So they're
going to some other Louisville Metro Housing Authority properties. They're
also going to some other places that are not controlled
by LMHA, but they're going to different places around the community.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
All right, tomorrow you're playing what Santa Claus?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I'm not gonna play Santa Claus, but I'll be there
with Santa tomorrow. Tony is going to be great. Light
Up Louisville's been going on in our community for nearly
forty years. But this year, this is no hy perbole.
This is going to be the biggest and the best
light Up Louisville ever, with lots of new things promises.
Isn't hyperbole, and it's not just because you and Terry
are joining us for the parade, which starts at six o'clock.
(08:39):
Festivity start tomorrow downtown at three. The light Up Parade,
Lots of Lights Parade is at six o'clock. But we've
got some new things. We've got a holiday themed drone
show by the same people that do Thunder over Louisville.
We have video mapping of Metro Hall. If you've never
seen a video mapping show, it's going to blow your mind.
It's going to transform or Metro Hall into just an
(09:02):
amazing canvas. And that's before the drone show. So come early,
but the parade starts at six. The mapping and the
drone shows right there afterwards. It's free. It's right downtown
on Jefferson Square Park by Metro Hall. There's things to buy,
there's there's gifts, there's food. It's not going to be
as cold as it is today. Bundle up with your family.
(09:23):
Rachel and I are going to be down there. Lots
of my colleagues from our administration and Metro Hall are
going to be down there. It's gonna be a lot
of family fun and the other great thing. So I
hope to see everybody down for Light Up Louisville tomorrow night.
The other great thing that's going on is the Louisville
women's volleyball team. I mean, the national championship has started.
They're playing tonight at seven at the Young Center. You
can come down see them at six o'clock tomorrow night.
(09:44):
Come right over to light up Louisville after they win.
It's going to be a great weekend in Louisville. That is.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
I forgot about that. Well, I didn't forget about that,
but I forgot just tying that together. Yeah, excellent idea.
Right downtown is going to be happening. Lots little kid
there lighting up.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Let's talk about Rachel got us some great hats that
we're gonna wear for the parade tomorrow. Man, it's gonna
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's good to see you, mister Mayor.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Great to see you, Tony.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Thanks Bear. Craig Greenberg here at twenty after the hour
here on news radio A forty he to w you
h a sports coming up.
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