BY ERICLERICHE - Andy Blieden is the key executive of Butchertown Market. He’s been in the real estate business since he was first licensed in 1980. Mr. Blieden has a passion for finding buildings in great locations that are in gross disrepair and bringing them back to their...
by Bailey Loosemore, @bloosemore - The ladies of the morning are heading to Butchertown. This week, Leslie Wilson and Annie Harlow - owners of the Hi-Five Doughnuts food truck - announced plans to open a permanent storefront on Main Street near the intersection of Story Avenue by the end of the...
Hi-Five Doughnuts is opening its first brick-and-mortar location. | Photo by Nerissa Sparkman Hi-Five Doughnuts is the sprinkles on the doughnut for ButcherBlock, a nine property mixed-used development in the heart of Butchertown. The mobile Louisville bakery is opening a brick-and-mortar location at 1011 E. Main St. at the end...
The new Butchertown development Butcherblock is filling up fast. Insider Louisville broke the news last year that developer Andy Blieden was renovating nine properties in Butchertown, four that he plans to rent as apartments and five that will house new businesses. As of the New Year, Blieden had...
by Dana McMahan, Special to the Courier-Journal - Two of the most popular street foods in Vietnam – pho and banh mi – are coming to Butchertown this summer, when Pho Ba Luu opens. The fast, casual restaurant is underway at Butcherblock Properties, a nine-building complex from Andy...
by BORIS LADWIG - [caption id="attachment_243088" align="alignnone" width="640"] Local developer Andy Blieden, left, worked with geologist and consultant Robert Perkins to turn a former brownfield into a Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant. | Photo by Boris Ladwig.[/caption] The Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant on Bardstown Road beckons passersby with its sleek, mostly black...
by Sheldon S. Shafer, @sheldonshafer - (Photo: Google Street View) A development group headed by Andy Blieden intends to develop 10 parcels in Butchertown along Wenzel Street with a combination of residences, commercial uses, studios and a restaurant. Blieden, doing business as Butcher Block Properties LLC, has filed documents...
Erika Chavez-Graziano, Cellar Door Chocolates Owner AUTHOR: Tonya Abeln | PHOTOGRAPHER: Alexa Pence Erika Chavez-Graziano, owner of Cellar Door Chocolates, is an absolute force. From her small batch wholesale chocolate company to her recently opened third retail location on South Fourth Street, her rapid growth shows no signs of slowing down. It most...
The Butchertown Market has been selected as a finalist for the 2015 Health & Wellness Award as part of Greater Louisville Inc.'s annual Inc.credible awards that celebrate small and growing businesses. Per GLI's press release on 7/21/15: Greater Louisville Inc. – the Metro Chamber of Commerce announced the finalists...
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