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Paint for Your Supper Featuring Artist Kelly Brewer

By Knox van Nagell | May 13th, 2011 | See all in Events, Fayette Alliance Blog, Past Events

Artist Kelly Brewer Paints for Her Supper

The May 12th Paint for Your Supper event was a great success and sold out weeks in advance!

A Special Thanks to Ouita Michel, Holly Hill Inn, Cross Gate Gallery, and acclaimed local artist Kelly Brewer for making this event possible.

It was an outstanding event with delicious food, superb music, and beautiful art!

This series features well known artists at local venues painting for their supper. On completion of this series, an auction of works by featured artists will be held to benefit The Fayette Alliance and its mission of advocating for a sustainable Lexington.

Kelly Brewer is a native Lexingtonian, and an exciting new artist in Central Kentucky. Masters Painters Joaquin Sorolla, John Singer Sargent, and Nicolai Fechin greatly influence Kelly’s impressionistic approach. The natural beauty of the Bluegrass, the dramatic effects of light and its transformative effect on the most ordinary subject inform her incredibly popular and respected paintings.

Guests Attending Paint for Your Supper

Special thank you to Cross Gate Gallery for sponsoring the Paint for Your Supper series.

Please contact Charlene Mingus (859) 281-1202 or Charlene@fayettealliance.com if you have any questions.

Previous Paint for Your Supper events featured Thomas Coates and Andre Pater.

Kelly Brewer with Finished Artwork

Paint for Your Supper


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Share Your Voice in Lexington’s Planning Process

By Knox van Nagell | May 11th, 2011 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog

Lexington | Photo by Jeff Rogers | www.jeffrogers.com

Tom Eblen: It’s time to get involved in Lexington’s planning process

by Tom Eblen, 05.11.11, Kentucky.com

Lexington leaders have taken a significant first step in the latest round of planning for growth and prosperity. Now, it is time for them and everyone else to get involved in taking the next steps.

The mayor, most Urban County Council and Planning Commission members and representatives of the Home Builders Association and Commerce Lexington announced April 26 that they all agreed there is no need to expand the Urban Services Boundary in the foreseeable future…

…Officials say there are 6,700 vacant acres available for development inside the Urban Services Boundary, and perhaps an additional 6,000 acres suitable for redevelopment. “We have to be very sophisticated about how we use this land,” said Knox van Nagell, executive director of the Fayette Alliance, a group started in 2006 to promote good land use and rural preservation…Read more at Kentucky.com


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Now What, Lexington?

By Knox van Nagell | May 9th, 2011 | See all in Community Events, Events, Fayette Alliance Blog

Saturday, May 14, 2011
Registration begins at 8:30 am
Sessions run from 9 am to 5:30 pm
This event is free and open to the public.
Click Here to register at Nowwhatlexington.org

For more information about this event visit Nowwhatlexington.org

 

Tom Eblen: Now What, Lexington? conference returns

by Tom Eblen, 05.09.11, Kentucky.com

Now what, Lexington?

That is the question ProgressLex is asking again as the citizens group hosts a second Now What, Lexington? gathering Saturday at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Like last year, the event is free and open to anyone with ideas for making Lexington a better place.

More than a dozen sponsors are paying for participants’ breakfast and lunch, so organizers want attendees to register (NowWhatLexington.org) so they know how much food to prepare.

The “unconference” format of Now What, Lexington? means anyone can sign up to lead a breakout session on a topic they have ideas about. Participants attend those sessions based on their own interests… Read more at Kentucky.com


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Triangle Park Plan Receives Approval

By Knox van Nagell | May 9th, 2011 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog

An artist's rendering of proposed changes to downtown's Triangle Park, which include a café. Work is to begin Monday. | Kentucky.com

Plan OK’d for new Triangle Park with cafe, central lawn, ice rink, games area

by Beverly Fortune, 05.07.11, Kentucky.com

The Lexington Center board Friday approved renovations to Triangle Park that will include a central lawn, outdoor café, activities area for games, and ice skating rink in the winter.

The $1.3 million in improvements will be made by the Triangle Foundation, which built the downtown park with private funds more than 30 years ago and contributes annually to its maintenance. The park is owned by the city but is under the care and control of Lexington Center Corp.

Work will start Monday. It is expected to be completed in 90 days, but it will take longer to open the café, said Steve Grossman, president of the Triangle Foundation…Read more at Kentucky.com


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Development Plans Underway for Vacant S. Broadway Lot

By Knox van Nagell | May 9th, 2011 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog

Twenty townhouses and a pub, Jefferson Davis Inn Bar and Grill, will be built on the vacant block bound by South Broadway and Cedar, Pine and Plunkett streets. | Photo by PABLO ALCALA | Kentucky.com

Pub, townhouses planned for vacant S. Broadway parcel

by Beverly Fortune, 05.07.11, Kentucky.com

A pub and 20 townhouses will be built on a prominent vacant block on South Broadway directly across from The Lex apartments.

Developer Jeff Morgan will build the project — to be called The Village at South Broadway — on the block where the old Popeye Sign Co. building was.

Groundbreaking is planned for Saturday afternoon.

The parcel makes up an entire city block between Cedar and Pine streets

Morgan says the development will more closely link the University of Kentucky to Rupp Arena and downtown. “I’ve walked that stretch of South Broadway. When the Newtown Pike extension comes in, I think it will fundamentally change the South Broadway corridor,” he said… Read more at Kentucky.com


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The Fayette Alliance is your voice at city-hall advocating for sustainable growth in Lexington…to achieve a world-class city in our world-class Bluegrass landscape.

Since 2006, the Alliance has worked with local government to usher over 50 major land-use policies into law that promote farmland preservation and our signature agricultural industries, responsible development, and improved water quality and infrastructure in Fayette County.

We are charting Lexington's future by positively impacting local zoning and policy decisions—the very building blocks of our community. Although many challenges still remain, we are accomplishing sustainable growth in Fayette County for a better quality of life, economy, and environment for all of us.

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