The West Louisville Dream Team Inc. detailed its proposal on Wednesday, calling it a new vision for the embattled property now home to small businesses, a driver’s licensing branch and other services.

Wednesday’s meeting of the West End Opportunity Partnership exposed clear divisions within the group charged with investing taxpayer funds in Louisville's west end

The West End Opportunity Partnership will consider spending $2.1 million at a special meeting Wednesday evening to help buy and tear down the building for an affordable housing development led by Goodwill Industries of Kentucky.

The board of the West End Opportunity Partnership voted 9-9 on the proposal at a special meeting that considered the $2.1 million request 

The West End Opportunity Partnership, which guides investment in Louisville’s western neighborhoods, would spend $2.1 million for the land and lease the site to Goodwill for $1 a year

The West End Opportunity Partnership will decide how to spend revenue from a sprawling tax increment financing (TIF) district across Louisville’s western neighborhoods

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

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

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.