Site Selection magazine ranked Kentucky eighth in the nation for new jobs, business investments and major building projects.
The funding will help complete the first-floor build out of the Gateway on Broadway project. It's a restoration effort at a vacant five-story warehouse at 1405 West Broadway in the Russell neighborhood.
$3.6 billion Brent Spence Bridge project cleared for design, construction following federal approval
The Brent Spence Bridge project will officially move forward without tolls, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday.
The University of Louisville will use a $13 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to develop a new statewide manufacturing resource center.
The overall economic impact of the installation already is estimated at $2.6 billion, but the headquarters designation would bring an additional 600 soldiers to the post.
Job growth in the construction, health care, transportation and warehousing industries was particularly strong in January, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics' report.
Economists have said that tight labor markets have hampered economic growth in cities including Louisville.