LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Semis idle and hiss in the loading bay at Rabbit Hole distillery. Across the street, a construction crew drives rebar into a new foundation while other workers go up and down a temporary elevator, finishing the interior on Tempo Hotel. Reservations start at the beginning of May, just in time for Derby.
These tall buildings built with metal bones are a common site there now, but Bill Marzian remembers when NuLu wasn't so new. He bought property in the area over 20 years ago. Now, he's a board member of the NuLu Business Association.
"We're just in the third inning," he said, walking down the busy street full of traffic cones. "There's a lot of interesting things to come."
Rabbit Hole filed plans to expand recently. Check out the plans below!
Those plans must be approved by the NuLu Review Overlay Committee for the expansion to move forward. The committee decides which buildings are allowed to be demolished.
Several old buildings on the block, appearing in renderings, will stay. Others may go, like one from the 1960s.
The distillery started buying property up on the street in 2018, totaling over $10 million in property purchases. They own everything inside South Clay to South Shelby between Nanny Goat Strut Alley and East Jefferson.
"They've made a real positive change," Marzian said. "We're really lucky that they've chosen NuLu to put their corporate center."
Those plans aren't final, though. The NuLu Review Overlay Committee still needs to schedule their next meeting.
You can find any future and previous meetings here.
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