Groundbreaking for the latest addition to Louisville's skyline, the 62-story Museum Plaza, has been set for Thursday, September 27, according to project investors Steve Poe, Craig Greenberg, Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown.
The team anticipates announcements throughout the summer on commercial tenants and condominium sales to help fund the $465 million project that will be built at 7th Street at River Road, just west of the Muhammad Ali Center.
The structure will include two towers, the largest of which will be 703 feet tall, and will include 98 luxury condos, 117 studio loft condos, 270,400 square feet of offices on 13 floors, a 250-room Westin Hotel - with a ballroom, fitness center, spa, restaurant and bar/lounge - , a 140,000-square-foot public plaza, 20,000 square feet of restaurants and shops, 36,500 square feet of studios for the University of Louisville fine-arts program, plus a glass shop and fine-arts gallery, 40,000 square feet of contemporary art space and an 800-space parking garage.