Louisville's Chef Space using $330K grant to renovate, expand

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville's Chef Space is getting $330,000 to help aspiring "entrée-preneurs" get their businesses off the ground.

Chef Space is one of 10 community projects in Louisville getting a total of $5 million in federal funding after President Joe Biden signed the omnibus spending package last Tuesday, funding the federal government through October.

The program is a food business accelerator that helps culinary creatives launch and sustain successful businesses by providing them with a commercial kitchen space and business training.

Chef Space's president, Tom Murro, said the grant will help them renovate their kitchen and create a new area for producing packaged goods.

"By renovating a 1,500 sq. ft. area of the kitchen and adding state-of-the-art equipment, it will increase our capacity to host additional Entrée-preneurs' here in the heart of West Louisville's Russell neighborhood," Murro said in a news release on Tuesday.

Other projects getting a portion of the federal funding include Louisville Metro's Black and Diverse Business Wealth Initiative, Volunteers of America Unity House, Maple Street Park project, Youthbuild's Smoketown Hopebox project and more.

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