Businesses at the site at Grinstead Drive and Lexington Road continue to wait on a timeline for work to start in earnest on the $554 million project 

Laura Douglas has been the interim president and CEO of the West End Opportunity Partnership since July 2022

A Metro Council committee gave no recommendation Tuesday to a tax increment financing district sought for a $249 million development in Paristown Pointe  

The local NAACP had been represented on the West End Opportunity Partnership since its inception in 2021. 

Metro government has spent nearly $600,000 since 2017 on the site slated for redevelopment in the Paristown Pointe neighborhood. 

A Community Benefits Agreement remains a sticking point for the $249 million project at Barret Avenue and Breckinridge Street. 

A tax increment financing (TIF) district would take in all or parts of nine neighborhoods in Louisville's West End, diverting 80% of new tax revenue in the area to the West End Opportunity Partnership over two decades.

Senate Bill 259 exposed tensions between the Louisville NAACP and the leadership of the West End Opportunity Partnership, the agency overseeing public tax subsidies in the city's West End.

The Metro Council plans to take up the tax increment financing request even as a required agreement with neighbors remains incomplete. 

Senate Bill 259 has exposed divisions on the board of directors of the West End Opportunity Partnership, which will manage revenue from a tax subsidy district in the city's western neighborhoods.