SIGN PROGRAM By ASHLEY BRAY
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hurchill Downs Incorporated opened the new Derby City Gaming in Louisville, Kentucky this past September. The historical racing machine facility is an 85,000-square-foot, $65 million complex featuring 900 state-of-the-art historical racing machines; two quickservice, walk-up food venues; and a bar with seating for fifty and large format televisions for guests to take in all the best sporting action year-round.
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Sign Builder Illustrated
January 2019
To complete this winning project, a number of outdoor signs were needed, including channel letters, three digital wall signs, and a double-sided monument with a digital sign. To handle the sign work, Churchill Downs brought in Rueff Signs of Louisville, Kentucky. This was no gamble as Churchill Downs has worked with Rueff Signs on other past sign projects. Rueff Signs (rueffsigns.com) has been in business since 1912, when Project
Manager Carl Rueff’s great-great uncle started up the business. He convinced his brother, Carl’s great-grandfather, to sell his grocery store and get involved in signs, and the rest is history. Today the family-owned, full-service sign company can fabricate and install just about any sign and even still fabricates and restores neon signs. The company specializes in large and unique custom signage and has done everything from monument signs to signshop.com