LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg has a new, ambitious economic development plan for the city. Pat Mulloy is the man in charge of making it happen.
Mulloy, a lawyer who spent most of his career managing senior living companies, joined Greenberg as deputy mayor for economic development earlier this year.
In this WDRB+ Studio conversation, we discussed the broad goals of the plan and how Mulloy plans to prevent it from languishing on a shelf with little action, like so many previous plans have over the years.
“I should be fired if in six months, we don’t have … a meaningful platform set up,” to implement the plan, Mulloy said, including a new public-private organization and a public dashboard charting progress.
In the conversation, Mulloy touched on:
-Why making it easier to build housing, including low-priced housing in every neighborhood, is a “moral imperative”
-The importance of international immigration to Louisville’s growth
-Remaking downtown in the remote work era
-How Louisville might follow in the steps of Austin and Nashville
-How to boost entrepreneurial activity and venture capital
-Why it all revolves the success of the University of Louisville
View the conversation in the video above. For an audio-only podcast version, click here:
