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Logistically Speaking: It takes a brave person to turn a fresh idea into reality, and an even braver one to know when it’s time to change course PAGE 8

Marikka’s New Digs: Owners of one of Southland Drive’s original destination restaurants see a bright future for their big new facility PAGE 10

Reimagining the Modern Office EOP Architects turns the tables in designing its own offices into a workplace of the future PAGE 12

A Romany Road Original: Wheeler Pharmacy has remained vital over 60 years of business through constant innovation and putting its customers first PAGE 14

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CONTENTS PVAStatistics The latest statistics on local residential and commercial properties, compiled by the office of the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator PAGE 4

BusinessBriefs News to know from around the region PAGE 5

EconomicAnalysis A monthly look at economic indicators compiled by the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) at the University of Kentucky PAGE 6

GrammarGourmet A Backhanded Blessing PAGE 6

A Romany Road Original: Wheeler Pharmacy has remained vital over 60 years of business through constant innovation and putting its customers first

BookReview “Mean Men: The Perversion of America’s Self-Made Man” PAGE 7

IndependentBusiness Logistically Speaking: It takes a brave person to turn a fresh idea into reality, and an even braver one to know when it’s time to change course PAGE 8

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BizList Hospitals PAGE 18 Retirement Communities PAGE 19

BusinessLeads An index of recent building permits, real estate transfers, loans, bids and new business licenses PAGE 20

Who’sWho Employment news and awards from around the Bluegrass PAGE 22

Activation Plan: Local startup has a patented process to transform bourbon byproducts into activated carbon, seeks funding to put its plan into action PAGE 9

Marikka’s New Digs: Owners of one of Southland Drive’s original destination restaurants see a bright future for their big new facility PAGE 10

Reimagining the Modern Office: EOP Architects turns the tables in designing its own offices into a workplace of the future PAGE 12

Personalized Health Care, for a Price: Local primary care practice joins the small but growing conversion to concierge medicine PAGE 17

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PVAStatistics The latest statistics on local residential and commercial property compiled by the office of the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator. The data reflects the most up-to-date information available at the time of printing for this publication, but monthly figures may be revised as additional public records of property transactions are submitted and become available.

Top Commercial Transactions for February 2018

Residential Sales Data for February 2018 The chart below shows the monthly residential sales activity in Fayette County for the previous 24 months. The data for the most recent months reflect a projected estimate from the office of the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator and are subject to change.

2016 RESIDENTIAL SALES

SALE DATE

ADDRESS

PRICE

PURCHASED BY

2/9/2018

4080, 4171, 4090, 4081,

$42,500,000*

Branch Tates Creek Associates LLC

4091, 4191, 4141, 4161, 4101,

4181, 4153 Tates Creek Centre Dr.

2/9/2018

3630, 3636, 3650 Boston Rd.

$17,250,000*

Branch Millpond Associates LLC

2/1/2018

100-125 Lakeshore

$15,000,000*

Summit Chevy Chase I LLC

2/20/2018

3901-3955 Harrodsburg Rd.

$6,060,637*

The Fountains at Palomar LLC

2/21/2018

2650 Wilhite Ct.

$5,900,000

295 Nicholasville Lex Ky Hotel LLC

2/21/2018

3575 Tates Creek Rd.

$3,500,000

2 Tates Creek Lex Ky Hotel LLC

2/1/2018

1328, 1329, 1344 Devonport Dr.

$2,400,000*

Ashland Apartment Group LLC

2/21/2018

641 Red Mile Rd.

$1,000,000

Ahmad, Yousef

2/5/2018

100 Mercer Ct.

$850,000

100 Mercer Court LLC

2/16/2018

1132-1152 Industry Rd.

$800,000

CPH Industry Partners LLC

2/27/2018

131-133 N. Limestone

$526,000

Dos Eles LLC

2/27/2018

1782 Bryan Station Rd.

$403,000

Noah’s Ark Veterinary Services PLLC

2/26/2018

1739 Nicholasville Rd

$285,000

Greystone Lodge LLC

2/7/2018

233 Kentucky Ave.

$260,000

Massie, Kevin

2/16/2018

419 Chair Ave.

$237,500

Short Street Reverse LLC

2/27/2018

1218 S. Broadway Ste. 375

$190,600

Broadway Partners LLC

2/27/2018

125 Cherrybark Dr.

$140,000

Hixson, James Thomas

2/13/2018

1165 E. New Circle Rd.

$125,000

Gumm, Lionel

2/26/2018

1190-1194 N. Limestone

$70,000

Winchester 836 LLC

2017 RESIDENTIAL SALES

2018 RESIDENTIAL SALES

800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

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-15.9% -4.8% 10.0% -11.2% 7.3%

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2.5%

0.2%

-6.1%

OCT

NOV

DEC

5.7% -13.1% -16.0%

MONTHLY PERCENTAGE CHANGE OVER PREVIOUS YEAR

For more local residential and commercial real estate information, check the website of the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator at www.fayettepva.com.

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BusinessBriefs LaRosa’s Family Pizzeria founder Buddy LaRosa, center in hat, is joined by representatives from LaRosa’s, Skyline Chili and the Holland Restaurant Group at a groundbreaking for the new Lexington location.

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LaRosa’s Family Pizzeria and Skyline Chili Break Ground in Lexington Owners of Cincinnati-based LaRosa’s Family Pizzeria and Skyline Chili joined franchise operators from the Holland Restaurant Group to break ground in March on the chain’s first full-service Lexington location, which will be built on the two-acre site of a former car dealership at 2850 Richmond Road.

LaRosa’s will include dine-in, pick-up and delivery of its family-recipe pizzas and other Italian favorites with a 200-person capacity dining room. The location will also feature a four-sided bar serving a full menu of beer, wine and mixed drinks, along with a “Buddy Room” for parties and events. The adjacent Skyline location will boast the company’s first-ever double-lane drive-through window, along with a traditional dine-in restaurant with a 132-seat capacity.

The Holland Group, owners of the new franchises, currently operate three First Watch locations in the Lexington area, and they plan to add a fourth to the new development site.

The restaurant group also owns and operates three additional LaRosa’s locations in the greater Cincinnati area.

The Lexington restaurants are scheduled to open this summer.

Epping’s on Eastside Coming to National Avenue Cole Arimes, owner and executive chef of Coles 735 Main, has leased a large building in the bustling National Avenue district and plans to open a new restaurant, called Epping’s on Eastside, there later this summer. Arimes and Richard Turnbull, his uncle, are partners in the venture. The location, at 710 National Avenue, was formerly home to National Provisions restaurant and market, which closed abruptly in September 2016 amid employee complaints and financial duress.

Arimes describes the planned enterprise as a neighborhood destination-type establishment with a variety of price points and cuisine that will encourage people to visit on a regular basis. Coles’ Chef de Cuisine Nathan Voorhees will move over to the new restaurant, and Arimes plans to hire a new chef de cuisine at Coles 735 Main. A downstairs

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bar area will be expanded to seat about 30 people, and an upstairs mezzanine will be outfitted for private dining to seat about 30 people as well, Arimes said. A beer hall area fronting National Avenue will also be utilized for private functions. A smaller concept, called Poppy and Olive, will also be housed within the restaurant.

The name Epping’s on Eastside is itself an homage to the building’s original use as home to Epping Bottling Works, whose brands included 7 Up, NuGrape and Orange Crush. Epping’s brands were acquired by Pepsi in 1967.

“It’s a neat building and there’s a lot of natural light,” Arimes said. “We’re going to let the building speak for itself and not do a whole lot to it. It’s a wonderful space, and we want it to be a neighborhood spot.”

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Kentucky Employment Rate at Lowest Level Since 2000 Kentucky’s annual unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent in 2017, from 5.1 percent in 2016, while nonfarm employment gained 11,300 jobs, according to the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS), an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.

It was the lowest annual jobless rate for the state since 2000, when the rate was 4.2 percent.

The U.S. annual unemployment rate dropped to 4.4 percent in 2017 from 4.9 percent in 2016. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ estimate of the number of employed Kentuckians for 2017 was 1,952,066. This figure is up 42,908 from the 1,909,158 employed in 2016.

The number of unemployed Kentuckians for 2017 was 100,302, down 2,819 from the 103,121 unemployed in 2016. There were 9,560 fewer individuals unemployed in 2017 than 10 years ago.

“The increase in Kentucky’s labor force is the largest since 1997,” said University of Kentucky’s Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) Director Chris Bollinger, in a media release. “As the Commonwealth’s economy has improved over the past couple of years, discouraged workers who stopped looking for work have returned to the labor market. The number of people unemployed has declined, even as these individuals returned to labor market.” BL

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A monthly look at economic indicators compiled by the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) at the University of Kentucky. For more on CBER, visit www.cber.uky.edu.

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Payroll Employment MSA**** Manufacturing Payroll Employment MSA**** Unemployment Rate MSA****

Most Recent Data as of Mar. 2018

1-Month Change

1-Year Change

$279,600 Dec. $163,700 Dec. 3.40% Dec.

-0.57% -0.43% -5.56%

0.25% 1.42% -0.10%

Payroll Employment, US

Manufacturing Payroll Employment, US Unemployment Rate, US

$147,810,000 Jan. $12,555,000 Jan. 4.10% Jan.

0.14% 0.12% 0.00%

1.45% 1.50% -1.00%

Consumer Price Index, Southern Region Consumer Price Index, US Producer Price Index, US

239.772 Jan. 247.867 Jan. 202.7 Jan.

0.53% 2.07% 0.70%

1.82% 0.54% 2.48%

Index of Leading Indicators* Fed’s Index of Industrial Production**

108.1 Jan. 107.2 Jan.

1.03% -0.09%

NA 2.49%

3-Month Treasury Yield*** 10-Year Treasury Yield***

1.68% Mar. 6, 2018 2.88% Mar. 6, 2018

0.13% 0.04%

0.94% 0.39%

4th qtr.

2017

Real GDP (billion $)

$19,737

1-Month Change 01.21%

1-Year Change 4.40%

MSA: Lexington-Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area; (p)=preliminary; NA=not available * Source: http://www.conference-board.org ** Source: Federal Reserve Statistical Release — http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G17/ *** Source: Federal Reserve Statistical Release — http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/H15/data.htm **** Source: St. Louis Federal Reserve — https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ Note: In some cases 1 mo. and 1 yr. changes are based on revised data from previous mo./yr. GDP is reported in Current Dollars.

A Backhanded Blessing The phrase sounds innocuous at first, a harmless threeword concoction that finds its way into many a Kentucky conversation. It’s a tricky phrase, too: It has the air of an approval, the lilt of a compliment. But it can be one of the unkindest cuts from a Southerner: Bless his heart.

I caught a “bless his heart” the other day.

A native of Michigan, I tried making my own barbecue sauce. Bless my heart.

Yankees know nothing about barbecue.

In this case, the phrase—uttered with a sweet smile by my backyard guests— could be translated as “this tastes bad,” or more belligerently, “this guy is a terrible cook.” But the worst sting was the unspoken connotation that lingered afterward: And he can’t help it.

Indeed, the power of “bless his heart” is grounded in its exquisitely balanced passive-aggressiveness.

Most passive-aggressive phrases are skimpy. “Fine, whatever” has no depth or subtlety; it’s something an adolescent might say. “If you really want to” is similarly unrefined. And what about this passive-aggressive rejoinder from a man caught cheating by his spouse: “Like you’ve never done anything wrong!”

Other Southern put-downs do not have the elegance of “bless his heart.” Too many involve reptiles: “He’s lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.” Some only hint at cleverness: “If that boy had an idea, it would die of loneliness.” And many are graphic: “Don’t try to piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining!”

Behold the simplicity, and yet the sophistication, of “bless his heart.”

The words, individually, evoke love, life, goodness, bounty. But taken together, whispered at a wedding, or a funeral—or with a sweet smile at a barbecue—their meaning has little to do with love. BL

Neil Chethik, aka the Grammar Gourmet, is executive director of the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning (www.carnegiecenterlex.org) and author of “FatherLoss” and “VoiceMale.” The Carnegie Center offers writing classes and seminars for businesses and individuals. Contact Chethik at neil@ carnegiecenterlex.org or 859-254-4175.

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Putting an End to the “Mean” Streak

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here is a real and growing problem in American business today. It is a nearepidemic issue that creates the worst work environments possible, alienates employees and discards ethics. Common among a subset of self-made men, particularly entrepreneurs who are forging their own way, this group has one characteristic in common.

They are mean.

In his new book, “Mean Men: The Perversion of America’s Self-Made Man,” Mark Lipton explores the tenets of meanness in the workplace, how it has become infectious and often, as Lipton argues, the norm.

There is a great focus in America to be a winner, no matter what the circumstances, Lipton says. Leaders are often ruthless in achieving their goals, regardless of the carnage they leave behind. Too often, these leaders are simply out for themselves.

Incapable of taking responsibility when they fail, they have a willingness to step on others to get ahead and an inability to feel remorse or empathy for anyone else.

“They have explosive tempers and abusive personalities,” Lipton writes. “Too often, they are grabbing for power at any cost.”

Mean men are found in every organization and at every level. Recent revelations have identified examples in sports, Silicon Valley,

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Hollywood and, of course, politics. There are mean women as well, but their numbers are miniscule compared to men, Lipton says.

But why? Lipton suggests that meanness has a long history in business. Henry Ford, for example, was known for his controlling, abusive personality. He undermined his company just as many contemporary CEOs have done.

They do so despite the reality that an abusive leadership style doesn’t just put off employees, it often blocks innovation and alienates customers.

With this type of environment, it would seem easy to see that mean men are bad for the bottom line. Yet in the United States, we too often cheer for the individualistic leader—the competitive, aggressive one who pursues his individual goals above all else. In America, this individual is applauded—and rewarded financially—while subordinates or team members receive little for their work.

According to a study by Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame, agreeable men earn roughly 18 percent less than men who are more aggressive and arrogant.

Mean men often fail to see such behavior as risky. Mean men are destructive not only to their business, but to society, Lipton suggests.

What’s wrong with ambition and drive?

Aren’t these essential qualities for an entrepreneur? Lipton’s answer is simple: Nothing is wrong with these behaviors, as long as they are in moderation.

“The trouble comes when an individual is all about the need to achieve, and when ambition eclipses empathy,” he writes.

The bottom line: mean individuals, especially in leadership roles, drive away customers, alienate employees and hurt the brand.

Lipton identifies 10 traits commonly found in entrepreneurial personalities that, if left unchecked, can contribute to being perceived as mean. He also offers numerous examples of coping strategies, self-defense and positive behaviors that can be developed after recognizing and accepting some or all of these tendencies in yourself or in someone else.

The List of Ten: Characteristics of an Entrepreneurial Personality

Need for achievement. A strong desire for success and its realization through difficult situations. This can become negative when individuals feel they are above the rules.

Drive. Rooted in proactivity, ambition and energy, drive is tied heavily to energy—the person who works long hours and stays focused with little sleep or food. Determined to make things happen, he often ignores the feelings of others and pushes them away.

Autonomy. Individuals with this trait are drawn to work where they don’t have to work with or for others.

Need for control. These individuals have a strong desire for power. They are often drawn to visions of grandiosity and authority.

Internal locus of control. This sense of self-control is crucial for entrepreneurs. They

believe in their own success and use that to create a domineering style.

Impulsivity. Making quick decisions can be crucial in this fast-paced world, but they can also be hazardous. Acting on too many hunches can result in major mistakes.

Suspicion of others. Entrepreneurs often have a tendency to distrust others. Suspicion is related not only to impulsivity, but also the tendency for autonomy.

Predisposition to take risks. French economist Richard Cantillon defined the word entrepreneur as “bearer of risk.”

Self-confidence. Many entrepreneurs are self-confident, and at times, trust no one’s suggestions except their own.

Need for approval. While it may appear that entrepreneurs are self-sufficient, they also have a great need for applause. BL

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Farm of the Day, a logistics company founded by Sam Evans, below, and a partner, specialized in the same-day transportation of fresh produce from farmers to customers.

Logistically Speaking It takes a brave person to turn a fresh idea into reality, and an even braver one to know when it’s time to change course

BY KATHIE STAMPS COLUMNIST: INDEPENDENT BUSINESS

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he road from idea to implementation to profitability is often a twisting, rocky path. Sam Evans discovered this the only way one really can—by doing.

And although he ultimately ceded control of his business, Farm of the Day, to a larger company, Evans says his entrepreneurial journey and ultimate resolution happened in a good, soulsatisfying way.

While on a cross-country drive in 2015, Evans had an idea for a small refrigerated box that would keep food fresh from farmer to consumer. “So instead of buying already harvested food at the grocery store, you would get shipped the whole carrot alive, and this box would keep it alive,” he said.

Evans has been interested in healthy living—particularly rock climbing and eating fresh, whole foods—for years. He called a childhood friend and together they tweaked the concept from a product into a service called Farm of the Day, which would act as an intermediary in delivering products between farmers and consumers. Farm of the Day was an online farmers

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market, of sorts, for customers who wanted to receive same-day harvested foods.

Every day that first summer, the two partners headed out in pickup trucks pulling refrigerated trailers they’d built themselves to gather produce from their farm clients and deliver it, CSA-style, to individual customers and restaurants.

“It was a good idea, but it never really caught on,” Evans said. “We weren’t good at marketing or advertising. [My partner and I] had similar strengths and weaknesses.”

By the fall of 2015, their agricultural supply was greater than customer demand. The farmers appreciated the drivers, though, so Farm of the Day became a refrigerated delivery service from farmers to restaurants and grocery stores. Requests came in for runs to Louisville, and then to Cincinnati.

“I got to put some of my engineering experience to work,” Evans said. “Routing delivery vehicles is shockingly complicated.”

Evans, a native Lexingtonian, is a 2009 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in chemical engineering. He worked in his chosen field for three companies in as many states as a nuclear hazards analyst, a process engineer and as a systems engineer.

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“The takeaway is we started a business and it was fun, but the way we had it set up wasn’t sustainable,” said Evans, who sold the business and has since moved into a consultant role.

His aunt had given him a subscription to “Popular Science” magazine every year for Christmas since he was small, and “I loved it,” Evans said. “I’ve been wrapped up in science since I was a little kid.”

As an employee in corporate America, however, Evans found that he grew restless when projects didn’t progress fast enough for

his liking. He preferred contract work, which he did for Bechtel Corporation, the country’s largest construction and civil engineering firm, at its offices in Washington state.

“I could usually figure it out on my own if I gave it everything I had,” Evans said of the engineering and logistics problems he’s tackled.

After starting Farm of the Day, Evans grew to appreciate the work ethic of people in agriculture.

“They’re doing this stereotypically hard job of growing food and they’re also running a business,” he said. “They have to file paperwork and run payroll and a thousand little things you have to do to run a business.”

In early 2017 Evans became a solo entrepreneur when his partner bowed out, and by late fall the early mornings and late nights had taken a toll. He entered into an agreement with Cincinnati-based PTG Logistics to take over delivery operations. Evans stayed on as a consultant for Farm of the Day, planning routes and maintaining client relations and quality control.

“It has freed me up to move on and work on other stuff, and to work on it less than 24 hours a day,” he said.

Evans set up his new business as Solanum Services (solanum is Latin for nightshade and a genus of tomatoes, potatoes and other agricultural plants) and is seeking other clients for engineering and logistics consulting work.

He’s also inspired by Central Kentucky’s food producers, many of whom he’s met personally.

“Everyone is so passionate about what they do,” he said. “I also realize that getting food to the grocery store is harder than you can possibly imagine, and [farmers] do everything they can to make it work. It is by sheer force of will that we have fresh tomatoes.” BL

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Activation Plan Local startup has a patented process to transform bourbon byproducts into activated carbon, seeks funding to put its plan into action

BY SHANNON CLINTON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Lexington startup company has patented a process for turning waste from breweries and distilleries into a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective component of water filters and some batteries.

Over the past few years, Richmond resident Steve Lipka, former associate director of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research, has been honing his idea for a new company, Stillage Solutions. His doctorate is in material science, and his experience spans more than three decades in materials engineering and related industries. He also operates Faraday Energy in Lexington, which for now is providing the necessary office and lab space for his new venture.

Joining him in the company’s development and launch are lead reactor engineer Sneha Chede, whose doctorate is in chemical engineering and who is also a research fellow at the Center of Membrane Sciences at UK; business director Fletcher Young, who holds a bachelor’s degree in physics, earned an MBA from UK and now attends medical school at the Kentucky School of Osteopathic Medicine in Pikeville, Kentucky; and finance director Zach Yonts, who also has an MBA from UK and an undergraduate degree in mining engineering.

After backing up his idea with a year’s worth of research, Lipka met with Young and Yonts when they were MBA graduate students with an interest in entrepreneurship through UK’s Gatton College of Business and Economics.

They joined the fledgling company in 2017.

Stillage Solutions’ basic concept involves putting distillery waste, or stillage, through a proprietary process that produces high-quality activated carbons, which are typically made from coal, peat, wood or coconut shells. Activated carbons, also called activated charcoal, are used in a variety of industrial, medical and environmental applications. Lipka and his team said their process is less expensive and lacks the toxic byproducts of conventional production methods.

“Basically 80 percent of [distillery] waste product is discarded,” Lipka said. “It has no economic value, and so we ended up putting it into our process” with a number of useful applications.

These include the manufacturing of water filters, super capacitors and lithium ion batteries, along with the types of monofluoride batteries used in products from implantable pacemakers to utility meters and powered credit cards.

Since its earliest phase, Stillage Solutions has sought help from UK’s Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship, which Lipka said provided potential investor and distillery industry contacts and other information.

During his research, Lipka obtained several stillage samples from Wilderness Trail Distillery

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in Danville, Kentucky. Shane Baker, cofounder, president and CEO of Wilderness Trail, said the distillery produces about 500,000 gallons of stillage per week, and he counts himself lucky that there are enough area farmers willing to take it off his hands for livestock feed.

“We have enough infrastructure, if you will, in our area to support that,” he said.

In areas where there are several distilleries close together, stillage disposal can be a challenge, Baker said. It spoils rapidly, and it is costly to transport. Removing the liquid from stillage to reduce volume is almost as expensive as running a distillery itself, he said.

Stillage Solutions has fared well in startup competitions in Kentucky and elsewhere, Young said, taking top honors and winning $10,000 in the 2017 Alltech Innovation Competition, and earning second place in a business plan competition during Idea State U regionals at Lindsey Wilson College. Young and Yonts also participated in a business accelerator program in Boston last fall.

“It was a nice validation of this concept,” Young said. “Alltech really liked it a lot, and we got our name out there.”

Young said Lipka and Chede have been “the science minds,” while he and Yonts competed for cash, formulated a business plan and prepared documents. He said the membership team communicates at least weekly, often by email and text.

Now in his first year of medical school, Young said he hopes to remain a part of the company.

A CEO may be hired later, Lipka said, along with employees who will refine existing processes and market the new company, but for now, there’s only the four-person management team.

Their goals include contracting with more distilleries to provide stillage and securing the financing to have a processing plant up and running by year’s end, Lipka said.

“We have a patented, vetted process,” he said. “We’ve demonstrated that it’s scalable, and I think our biggest challenge has been to find the right investors, find the right partners and get a start in demonstrating that this is a very viable technology … that, again, solves problems with waste disposal and provides value-added products, which could have a revenue stream.” BL

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Stillage Solutions uses a patented hydrothermal process to transform stillage—waste from the bourbon distillation process, shown above—into carbon-rich solids, which can be used in a variety of applications.

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Erik Hagihara, above, of Lexington, played pool at Marikka’s recently with friends. Marikka’s is one of the region’s only German restaurants, serving up homemade sausage and other traditional dishes. The Ball family, below, hailing from Lexington and Louisville, met at Marikka’s to enjoy a family meal.

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Marikka’s New Digs Owners of one of Southland Drive’s original destination restaurants see a bright future for their big new facility

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hen Marikka’s Restaurant & Bier Stube first opened in early 1991, the owners saw that on slow nights there wasn’t a whole lot for the waitstaff to do.

So Doug Tackett Jr., who was 17 at the time and worked in the kitchen with his father, set off for Walmart, determined to bring back something that might relieve the boredom.

He returned with a cheap volleyball net and a floodlight, which he used to string up a court on a grassy patch behind the restaurant.

Volleyball, Tackett recalled, seemed like “something fun anybody could do.”

Little did he know how right he was.

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The sport soon caught on in Lexington, and Marikka’s found itself in the middle of a volleyball wave that spawned a bevy of leagues, putting ever-increasing demands on the restaurant’s modest volleyball accommodations.

Which may help explain why Tackett, 43, who co-owns Marikka’s with his parents, Doug Sr. and Marikka (the restaurant’s namesake), says the restaurant’s recent tear-down and rebuild was a move some “25 years in the making.”

“We’ve been wanting to go bigger ever since we bought the building,” Tackett said, recalling the days when the restaurant occupied just one of many storefronts in a Southland Drive roadside plaza. “We just had a feeling that it was the right time to do this. We’ve got a great customer base, and the demand continued to grow, so we saw that the need was there.”

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The new building, which spans 22,000square-feet, reopened on March 5. The standalone building features a separate restaurant, a private dining room and a 10,000-square-foot beer hall, replete with all the amenities for which Marikka’s is known: dart boards, shuffleboard, foosball and pool tables.

“Just sitting there drinking can get old,” Tackett said. “People want to have something to do. So that’s why we’ve always had the games.

You should never be bored when you come to our place.”

The new building also expands Marikka’s volleyball offerings. It includes room for six beach volleyball courts—three indoors and three outdoors—which will allow for the restaurant’s volleyball leagues to run year-round.

“People didn’t want to take the winter off,” said Morgan Middleton, who runs Marikka’s volleyball leagues.

Middleton said the restaurant now features a total of 14 leagues, comprising some 910 players and 188 teams. The restaurant recently switched to online league registration, which Middleton said is a welcome change from the old days when everything was done in-person at the restaurant.

“We had people taking off work and lining up an hour early to throw their registration at the bartenders just so they wouldn’t miss a spot,” Middleton said.

“You should never be bored when you come to our place.”

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The Marikka’s building, which cost about $6 million, also expanded another one of the restaurant’s trademarks: its endless bottled beer selection. One of the first Lexington restaurants to sport a huge list of hard-to-find imports and microbrews, Marikka’s added even more refrigerators, driving up its number of bottled beers to 800—a number that will soon expand to 1,000 when all the vendors come through, Tackett said.

Patrons who get around to trying every beer in Marikka’s arsenal will not soon be forgotten: Their names get enshrined in the Beer Club, a memorial hanging above the dart boards that pays homage to the heartiest of hoisters.

The restaurant also plans to roll out its own home brews later this year.

As for the food—all traditional German recipes from Hanau, Germany, where Tackett’s mother grew up—not a lot has changed, he said.

There are still all the dishes for which Marikka’s is known: homemade sausages, schnitzels, sauerbraten and sauerkraut, and they’re still cooked by the same people.

“There’s always a Tackett in the kitchen,” said Doug Tackett Jr. “It’s just something that’s hard for us to give up or relinquish.”

Now that the restaurant is open and its volleyball leagues are back in full force, Tackett said it’s good to be running his business again rather than watching from the sidelines.

“Thank God we’re back open,” he said.

“Being down for a year was torture, both for us and a lot of others, evidently. The restaurant industry can be brutal, but we love it. And it’s kind of overwhelming when you find out how many people that you’re important to. So that makes us feel good—like we’re doing something right.” BL

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Marikka’s beer hall, which stretches some 10,000 square feet, features all the old Marikka’s amenities: dart boards, pool tables, foosball, an expansive list of imports and speciality bottled beers, and plenty of room to unwind.

The facility also features three indoor volleyball courts, which are available for open play on Fridays and weekends.

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EOP Architects recently remodeled its 5,000-square-foot offices in the historic Lexington Building downtown, the firm’s headquarters since 1981.

Exposed century-old concrete columns and beams lend an urban edge, while wood, natural stone and other finishes complement the sleek design.

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Reimagining the Modern Office EOP Architects turns the tables in designing its own offices into a workplace of the future

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mid all the high-tech features that EOP Architects incorporated into its newly renovated offices in the historic Lexington Building downtown, one bit of tradition remains—a shiny brass captain’s bell, which for more than 20 years has been rung to celebrate each time EOP lands a new job.

The bell is now proudly mounted on one of the Lexington Building’s almost centuryold concrete support beams, which remain exposed and contribute an industrial touch to the new space. Rich wood details, built-in cabinetry, exposed ductwork and other finishes create an overall sleek, modern aesthetic.

Everything in EOP’s renovated seventhfloor offices reflects the latest technology, up to and including a virtual reality station that lets clients “walk through” a computer-generated 3-D image of their EOP-designed buildings before they’re ever built, often down to details like materials and finishes.

An open floor plan provides plenty of natural light, supplemented by centrally controlled LED lighting throughout. Carefully positioned thresholds further enhance the open feeling while delineating the floorplan and work areas.

Sightlines in every direction frame sweeping views of downtown Lexington from large windows on all sides of the building.

There are several multi-purpose meeting rooms, as well as smaller nooks and gathering spaces that are often used for impromptu meetings and conversations. A newly created break room—complete with an automated coffee machine that grinds and brews high-quality java on demand—has also become a popular spot.

Special treatments on many walls allow staffers to scribble notes or make quick, erasable sketches on the fly, which designers tend to do when they’re discussing projects and solving problems. Files stored on a cloud-based server can quickly be called up on any device in the office, including a large flat-screen monitor used for client presentations. It’s all designed to facilitate and encourage EOP staff members to interact and share ideas, while working more seamlessly and efficiently in a creatively stimulating environment.

“The firm was elevated the minute we moved into this new space,” said EOP cofounder Rick Ekhoff. “People began to collaborate and communicate on a higher level. That’s important because ours is a collaborative business. We live off of people’s ideas.”

While EOP’s staff are obviously energized by the new office and its benefits, it’s taken a while to get to this point.

Ekhoff and Paul Ochenkoski founded the firm in 1981. Richard Polk joined the firm shortly after as an architect and was offered a partnership a few years later—thus the name EOP. The seventh floor of the Lexington Building has been home ever since.

EOP eventually grew to its current workforce of 30 architects and interior designers, including several located in its Louisville office, which was opened three years ago. The company has done work in more than 30 states and has worked on many high-profile projects, winning numerous architectural awards in the process, including the Kentucky AIA Firm of the Year in 2010.

EOP recently was named to design the new

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complex that will replace Frankfort’s Capital Plaza Tower. The firm is also involved in the Lexington Convention Center project, as well as two major Louisville projects, including providing architectural services for a massive re-imagining of the 12-acre Urban Government Center and analyzing Metro Louisville’s facilities needs.

But its space in the Lexington Building, which was built around 1920, had become inadequate. EOP leadership discussed renovation and kicked around design ideas for several years, though there was never any serious thought of leaving the downtown area. Eventually, design work got underway and the office renovation began in May 2017, with Lexington’s Jarboe Construction as general contractor. The project required gutting the entire space and temporarily relocating employees to offices on a lower floor, as well as a host of considerations in working around the building’s existing mechanical systems. By all accounts, the results were well worth the effort. The new quarters were finished last fall.

EOP officials said that, as was intended from the beginning, the project has created an efficient and stimulating workspace for employees, while also providing a showcase for the firm’s design philosophy and skills.

“We saw it as a potential marketing tool, but we didn’t realize how powerful it could be,” Ekhoff said. “In fact, it has become a huge tool for us.”

EOP officials said clients and potential clients who visited the offices before and after the renovation have been so impressed by the results that many now want to incorporate some of its design ideas into their own facilities.

EOP associate Daniel Ware, who was project manager for the renovation, said the experience “reinforces what we’ve thought all along, which is that design can change how you do business, change your mood and change how productive you are.

“Now we’re living it, and benefitting from it,” he added.

Still, Ware said that designing their own workspace was a little different than working with an outside client.

“When construction started, we got into what I think is one of the most interesting things architects do: guiding the process and making sure the client gets what we actually drew,” he said. “But in this case, we were the clients.”

EOP interior designer Susana Verni, who led the interior design of the renovation, said she thinks members of the firm became particularly invested in the project.

“We were emotionally involved because it’s our space; we live here,” she said.

Chris Estes, EOP interior design partner, said he felt some of that emotion when he saw the new front lobby taking shape.

“You walked through the door and immediately recognized that you were in a special place, connected with the energy of this new, open environment,” he said.

Estes said EOP learned things in designing its own office that it can incorporate into many of its current and future projects. Meanwhile, many think a wave of development could be building in downtown Lexington, right outside EOP’s new offices.

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EOP’s designers opened up walls to allow natural light to flood into work areas, added new meeting spaces with writable and pinup walls, and integrated the latest technology throughout, including a virtual reality station to assist clients in envisioning their projects.

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A Romany Road Original Wheeler Pharmacy has remained vital over 60 years of business through constant innovation and putting its customers first

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illiam “Buddy” Wheeler opened Wheeler Pharmacy in Lexington’s Chevy Chase neighborhood in January 1958, when he was a twenty-three-year-old with a newly minted degree from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. His was one of the first businesses established on Romany Road and, in fact, people asked him at the time why he decided to build a drug store “so far out of town.”

Six decades later, business is still going strong and Wheeler, who recently turned 84, still pops in to the pharmacy for a few hours almost daily. “They call me the Vice President of Special Tasks now,” Wheeler said, referring to his kids, who have taken over the business’s day-to-day operations.

Family-run in the most literal sense, Wheeler’s four children—with his wife of nearly 64 years, Lucy—all have their designated role in the business. Oldest son Kendall Wheeler, who retired from IBM, helps with project management and IT. Son Stuart Wheeler is the store and fountain manager. Daughter Margaret Meredith is a CPA who handles the accounting. And his youngest daughter, Claire Wheeler Love, a pharmacist, manages the pharmacy operation and also owns and runs her own business, Wheeler’s Custom Compounding, across the street. Kendall’s wife Tammy is the pharmacy’s bookkeeper, and all nine of Wheeler’s grandchildren have worked in the store at one time or another.

“Having defined roles is why it works,” Stuart Wheeler said.

Love agreed. “I wouldn’t say we’ve never stepped on each other’s toes—that’s going to happen from time to time—but at the end of the day we know that, while this is business, we’re family first.”

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Stuart Wheeler, who has managed Wheeler Pharmacy for some 28 years, chats with customer Mike Warner, who said he’d been coming to Wheeler’s since 1963, when he first discovered the milkshakes.

Always Innovating Over the years, Wheeler Pharmacy has had its share of notoriety. Its fountain—where you can order a hot breakfast or lunch Monday through Saturday—is practically hallowed ground for Big Blue Nation, thanks to its status as a favorite hangout of UK coaches, especially longtime regular Joe B. Hall. ESPN even filmed Coach Cal having breakfast there in 2012.

As fun as that’s been, the family said the best part of their job has been the chance to connect in a real, tangible way to the community they serve. “One of our customers said once that ‘Wheeler’s is like Cheers without the beers,’ ” Stuart Wheeler said. “Everybody knows everybody here.”

Still, there’s more to Wheeler’s longevity than its status as a friendly place to grab some Tylenol or a bite to eat. The business has been

able to weather six decades of ups and downs thanks largely to Buddy Wheeler’s ingenuity and entrepreneurial savvy, his kids said.

“Dad has always been progressive in the ways that he does things,” Love said, noting that Wheeler’s was one of the first pharmacies in the area to adopt an integrated computer system for prescriptions in the 1980s and then, later, to develop and utilize a computerized point-of-sale system in the early 1990s. “He’s had a central inventory set up forever—where, if you fall below 30 tablets, the system automatically reorders—but I remember when I was working at a big-box pharmacy in 1999, we were still having to go through the shelves, shaking bottles to see what we were low on,” Love said. “And Wheeler’s has had automated [pill] counting machines since the early 2000s, but in many chain pharmacies, they’re still

counting pills on trays even now.”

“I am just always thinking ahead, trying to see what’s coming down the road,” Buddy Wheeler said about his willingness to evolve to best meet his customers’ needs.

It was that mentality that led him to add a compounding pharmacy—which Love now runs as a separate entity—to the family’s business model in the late 1990s and, in the mid2000s, to establish a medication management program called Wheeler’s Home Connection, which provides individualized medication counseling and prescription home delivery for enrollees, most of them home-bound seniors.

More recently, the pharmacy responded to the loss of the nearby Romany Road Kroger by adding a refrigerator for milk and other perishables and expanding its grocery inventory to help provide needed staples for area residents.

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Lynne Eckmann (left), who directs Wheeler Pharmacy’s home delivery service, dubbed Home Connection, prepared prescription boxes for clients. Assisting is Nahed Qasem, a pharmacy technician.

Chelcie Everman (center), a pharmacy technician, took call-in prescriptions. Haley Poston (right) helped fill prescriptions at Wheeler Pharmacy. Poston, 24, from London, Ky., and a student at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, was nearing the end of her six-week internship at the pharmacy.

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“You might think that the bigger pharmacy companies would be the ones that have the most technology integrated into their systems,” Love said. “But Dad found that, as a solo entrepreneur all those years, no one was holding him back. There wasn’t corporate red tape to deal with. And if he wanted to make a change, he just did it.”

Wheeler’s Custom Compounding Wheeler’s Custom Compounding is in the final stages of an expansion that’s more than doubling its size, just across Romany Road from the original Wheeler Pharmacy. When the renovation is complete, the compounding pharmacy will include two dedicated labs for preparing personalized medications for clients.

The store also offers a full line of health products available to walk-in customers, including pharmaceutical-grade vitamins and supplements, hemp and CBD oil products, essential oils, skin care and veterinary products—such as DappleUp, an all-natural dog and horse shampoo developed by Stuart’s daughter, Katherine Wheeler. There are also plans to launch a series of educational health workshops for the public.

As a compounding pharmacist, Love—who was named Kentucky’s pharmacist of the year in 2015—feels she gets to more actively partner with health care providers to fine-tune patient dosages, suggest alternative therapies and assist patients who may have allergies or intolerance to dyes or chemicals found in massproduced medications. Love and her eightmember staff are also able to offer specialized services not possible at a traditional pharmacy, including hormone replacement therapy and custom prescriptions for both human and veterinary clients. “Medicine isn’t one size fits all,” she said. “The more I worked with Dad and learned about compounding, the more I realized it was my true calling.”

While the compounding pharmacy is its own business entity, owned wholly by Love since 2012, the two pharmacies work in tandem to make their services as convenient as possible for patients. “Our computer systems are networked, and if a client has prescriptions at both locations, we deliver to one or the other so they don’t have to make two stops,” she said.

But, despite their proximity, the two businesses’ client bases don’t widely overlap.

Wheeler Pharmacy prescription clients are mainly nearby Chevy Chase residents, whereas clients at the compounding pharmacy come from across the state and beyond.

“At Custom Compounding, we are offering a specialized service, so it’s typically a different clientele that seeks us out. We do a lot of shipping,” Love said.

In an era where profit margins on sales of prescriptions continue to be tightened from caps set by insurance companies and other third-party payers, Love and Stuart Wheeler said it’s their father’s prescient business diversification that has kept them profitable all these years. “He understood that you have to offer other services—beyond simply filling prescriptions—if you’re going to make it,” Love said. BL

“Medicine isn’t one size fits all. The more I worked with Dad and learned about compounding, the more I realized it was my true calling.”

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The counter at Wheeler Pharmacy is famed for its reputation as a place where locals go to eat a hearty breakfast, have some coffee and talk about the Wildcats and perhaps a little politics. Below, Ricky Camp (right), a cook at Wheeler’s for 14 years, shared a laugh with his longtime colleague Shakara Hardin, who’s worked at the store for nine years. Lee Tolliver, who has worked as a cook and waitress at Wheeler’s for more than 20 years, delivered a breakfast order to customers at the counter.

Claire Wheeler Love, daughter of Buddy Wheeler, who founded the iconic neighborhood pharmacy some 60 years ago, owns and manages her own business across the street.

Called Wheeler’s Custom Compounding, it makes customized medications. Love also helps oversee the pharmacy at Wheeler’s.

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CUSTOM COMPOUNDING MANAGER, CLAIRE WHEELER LOVE

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population as a whole. A 2017 study by the Association of American Medical Colleges estimated that the United States will have between 7,300 and 43,100 fewer primary care physicians than it needs, on the whole, by 2030.

Jorgensen said the concierge model currently represents a very limited segment of the roughly 300,000 primary care physicians practicing in the national health care market, and even with steady growth, he expects it to stay that way.

“It’s a small part of the marketplace, and it will always be a small part of the marketplace, because only a small amount of consumers are willing to invest in their health in this way, out of their own pocket,” Jorgensen added.

In addition, while MDVIP-affiliated physicians are taking on fewer patients, the model has enabled overworked doctors who might otherwise be considering retirement or a career change to continue practicing.

“We have about 125 doctors practicing today who are over 65 years old, who have kind of a new lease on life,” Jorgensen said. “We are returning the passion to a lot of these doctors so they can practice longer.”

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Personalized Health Care, for a Price Local primary care practice joins the small but growing conversion to concierge medicine

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tarting May 29, two more doctors in Lexington will adopt a relatively limited but growing business model in primary care practice that focuses on treating fewer patients with easier access and more personalized attention—for a price.

Dr. John Borders and Dr. Gregory Hood will officially transition their longtime Lexington medical practice to become an affiliate of MDVIP, the nation’s largest network of providers of preventative care and personalized medicine, often referred BORDERS to as concierge medicine.

Patients who sign on with the new practice will pay an annual out-ofpocket membership fee of $1,650, in addition to their usual insurance premiums, co-pays and deductibles. In exchange, the doctors will limit

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their patient load to about 600, as compared to the national average of roughly 2,500 patients carried by traditional primary care practices.

Fewer patients means physicians can be more accessible for same-day appointments or to answer questions by phone or text, they will be less overwhelmed by time-consuming insurance paperwork, and they’ll have more minutes to spend with each client during visits.

“Being able to provide highly personalized, preventive medical care is something I value and enjoy,” said Hood. “As a primary care physician, my goal is to help patients meet their personal health HOOD and life goals at every stage of life. My new practice allows me to get to know each of my patients and to care for them well beyond their immediate needs.”

Borders, who began practicing medicine in

1982, initially opened the Lexington practice three decades ago, in 1988. Hood joined the practice, which is located on Nicholasville Road, in 2001, after relocating from an internal medicine practice in California.

While it’s not the only concierge medical group in town, Boca Raton, Florida-based MDVIP has grown since its inception in 2000 to include the largest network of providers in the nation, with about 300,000 paying members across the country and roughly 900 doctors in 45 states, including 22 in Kentucky. The company has grown its revenue, along with its pool of affiliated doctors and its patient base, for JORGENSEN 68 consecutive quarters, said MDVIP CEO and board chair Bret Jorgensen.

“There’s continuing strong demand for this in the local market,” Jorgensen said of Lexington, which now includes five MDVIP affiliates. In addition to Borders and Hood, Dr. Michael Carr opened his MDVIP-affiliated practice in Lexington in 2010, and Dr. Barry Schumer and Dr. Debbie Fibel followed with their local practice in 2013.

Benefits and Considerations For a small but growing segment of the patient market, the provided services are worth the extra money. Patient satisfaction rates are above 90 percent, Jorgensen said, and he cited growing evidence to indicate that the associated care can also contribute to better outcomes, including fewer hospital re-admissions and emergency room visits.

In light of the growing shortage of physicians, both in Kentucky and across the nation, however, the choice of some doctors to reduce their patient pool has raised concerns about availability and access to patient care for the

A More Affordable Approach to Concierge Although the term “concierge medicine” may conjure images of luxury care catering to the wealthiest clientele, the MDVIP model aims to keep the retainer cost within the financial reach of more average households, Jorgensen said. Patients see the upfront investment in more personalized preventative care as a way to stave off more expensive treatment for serious and long-term conditions down the road, and the fee is approved as a qualified expenditure for reimbursement from clients’ health spending accounts, he added.

“Our model is essentially the cost of a Starbucks a day or somebody’s cable bill,” Jorgensen said. “It’s really designed to be affordable personal health care, and not high-end concierge wealth care at all. … But we understand it’s an incremental cost that’s not affordable to everybody.”

Patients of Borders and Hood were notified earlier this year of the expected transition, and MDVIP and the local staff have worked with those who have chosen not to join to find new doctors and ensure their continuity of care, Jorgensen said.

“We actually won’t proceed [in a transition] with any doctor unless we have a place for nonjoiners to go,” Jorgensen said. “We make sure there is a doctor hand-off for every one of those patients.”

For those who have chosen to pay the new fee to sign up with the MDVIP-affiliated practice, the membership will come with new services, including a 90-minute annual wellness exam with health screenings and diagnostic testing to inform the development of an individualized wellness plan. Doctors are expected to schedule 30 minutes for every appointment and keep their daily schedule open enough to accommodate same-day appointments for patients with urgent issues. They also make themselves available to patients by cell, text or e-mail, and in some cases, they will even make house calls.

Members can also receive care at other MDVIP-affiliated practices when they travel out of town, and the company partners with medical centers of excellence across the country for times when second opinions or other coordination of specialty care is required, Jorgensen said.

“Affiliating with MDVIP will afford me the time and tools to build a close and constructive partnership with patients so that we can work proactively together in optimizing their current health while also preventing new problems,” Hood said. “When necessary, I am able to coordinate patient care with preferred physician colleagues, whether it be across town or across the country.” BL

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Hospitals Regional Hospitals and Medical Centers Ranked by Total Number of Licensed Beds Rank

Hospital Name Address, Phone Website

Jan.-Dec. 31, 2016

Total Licensed Beds *

Average Daily Census ** (ADC)

Average Length of Stay (ALOS)

Average Occupancy Percentage

Admissions

Top Local Offical(s)

Corporate Affiliation

1

UK Healthcare Albert B. Chandler Hospital 800 Rose St., N. 100 Lexington, KY 40536 (859) 323-5126 www.ukhealthcare.uky.edu

724

588

7.3

81.2%

29,658

Dr. Mark F. Newman

Commonwealth of Ky.

2

Saint Joseph Hospital 1 Saint Joseph Dr. Lexington, KY 40504 (859) 313-1000 www.kentuckyonehealth.org/saintjosephhospital

408

188

4.4

47.0%

15,652

Bruce Tassin (President)

KentuckyOne Health

Baptist Health Lexington 1740 Nicholasville Rd. Lexington, KY 40503 (859) 260-6100 www.baptisthealth.com/lexington

391

239

4.8

61.1%

18,321

Stephen C. Hanson (CEO of Baptist Health Systems), William G. Sisson (President of Baptist Health Lexington and Regional Executive for Baptist Health Lexington, Richmond and Corbin)

Baptist Health

4

Cardinal Hill Rehab Hospital *** 2050 Versailles Rd. Lexington, KY 40504 (859) 254-5701 www.cardinalhill.org

232

WND

WND

WND

WND

Gary Payne

Ky. Easter Seal Society

5

Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center 21 South Third St. Danville, KY 40422 (859) 239-1000 www.emrmc.org

197

80

4.6

40.7%

6,463

Sally Davenport

Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center Inc.

6

Eastern State Hospital 627 W. 4th St. Lexington, KY 40508 (859) 246-7000 www.ukhealthcare.uky.edu/eastern-state-hospital

195

124

15.2

63.3%

2,751

John Phillips, David Phelps

Commonwealth of Ky.

7

Saint Joseph East 150 N. Eagle Creek Dr. Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 967-5000 www.kentuckyonehealth.org/saintjosepheast

185

99

3.5

58.9%

10,307

Eric Gilliam (President)

KentuckyOne Health

8

UK HealthCare Good Samaritan Hospital 310 S. Limestone St. Lexington, KY 40508 (859) 226-7000 www.ukhealthcare.uky.edu/good-samaritan-hospital

180

121

5.6

67.3%

8,105

Dr. Mark F. Newman

Commonwealth of Ky.

9

Frankfort Regional Medical Center 299 Kings Daughters Dr. Frankfort, KY 40601 (502) 875-5240 www.frankfortregional.com

173

74

4.4

43.0%

6,091

Chip Peal

Frankfort Hospital Inc.

10

Baptist Health Richmond 801 Eastern By-Pass Richmond, KY 40475 (859) 333-4415 www.baptisthealthrichmond.com

105

31

3.9

29.9%

2,959

Stephen C. Hanson (CEO), C. Todd Jones (President)

Baptist Health

11

Ridge Behavioral Health System 3050 Rio Dosa Dr. Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 269-2325 www.ridgebhs.com

90

49

7.9

54.7%

2,288

Nina Eisner

WND

12

Georgetown Community Hospital 1140 Lexington Rd. Georgetown, KY 40324 (502) 868-1100 www.georgetowncommunityhospital.com

75

18

3.3

23.4%

1,956

William Haugh

Georgetown Community, LLC

13

Harrison Memorial Hospital 1210 Kentucky Highway 36 East Cynthiana, KY 41031 (859) 234-2300 www.harrisonmemhosp.com

61

13

3.5

20.7%

1,318

Sheila Currans

Harrison Memorial Hospital, Inc.

14

Bourbon Community Hospital 9 Linville Dr. Paris, KY 40361 (859) 987-3600 www.bourbonhospital.com

58

32

4.4

54.5%

2,646

Joe Koch

LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.

15

Clark Regional Medical Center 1107 West Lexington Ave. Winchester, KY 40397 (859) 745-3500 www.clarkregional.org

54

24

2.9

44.7%

3,171

Cherie Sibley

LifePoint Hospitals, Inc.

16

Shriners Hospital for Children 110 Conn Terrace Lexington, KY 40508 (859) 266-2101 www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.org/lexington

50

1

3.7

2.4%

127

Tony Lewgood

Shriners Hospital for Children

3

Source: 2016 Kentucky Annual Hospital Utilization and Services Report from January 1 to December 31, 2016, published July 2017. Hospital websites and individual hospital representatives. List is based on facilities with 50 or more licensed beds.

Footnotes: * Licensed Acute and Psych Beds. ** Average Daily Census represents the average number of eligible patients on-service on a given day. This does not represent only those receiving care on a given day, but rather those have been admitted to an organization, but not discharged, for which the hospital has ongoing care or service responsibilities. *** Cardinal Hill Rehab Hospital purchased by HealthSouth. **** Rehab beds. Key: WND=Would Not Disclose, NA=Not Available.

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Retirement Communities Ranked by Number of Independent-Living Units

Rank

Community Name Address, Phone Website

Independent Living Units

Total All Units

Facility Types

Total Staff *

Percent Occupied/ Waiting List Available

Entrance fee/ Deposit/ Monthly Fees

Top Local Executive/ Management Company

Headquarters/ Year Founded Locally

1

Brookdale Richmond Place 3051 Rio Dosa Dr. Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 269-6308 www.brookdale.com

182

182

ALZ, IL, PC, SN

300+

92%/Y

Entrance fee/deposit/ monthly rates: $2,500; Entrance fee: starting rates at $2,000

Owned and operated by Brookdale Senior Living

Nashville, Tenn./ 1984

2

St. Andrews Place 2 McCready Manor 300 Stocker Dr. Richmond, KY 40475 (859) 625-1400 www.standrewsplace.org

148

198

AL, ALZ, IL, PC, SN,

104

98%/Y

Based on size of unit/ purchase or lease IL: $1,000; AL: $500 vary according to size and service

Gil Shew (CAO)

NA/ 1992

3

The Lafayette at Lexington Country Place 690 Mason Headley Rd. Lexington, KY 40504 (859) 278-9080 www.lafayettelexington.com

147

263

IL, PC, SN

250

84%/Y

One-time community fee: $3,000; Studio: starting $2,193; 1BR: starting $2,111; 2BR: starting $3,111

Cynthia Jones (Executive Director)/ Five Star Quality Care

Headquarters in MA/ 1985

4

Sayre Christian Village 3775 Belleauwood Dr. Lexington, KY 40517 (859) 271-9001 www.sayrechristianvillage.org

140

240 **

AL, ALZ ***, IL, PC, SN

267

92%/Y

New resident fee: $750/ Security deposit: $500/ 1BR: starting at $2,975 + $525 for extra occupant, 2BR: starting at $3,696 + $525 for extra occupant

Bill English

Lexington, Ky./ 1983

5

Legacy Reserve at Fritz Farm 2700 Man O’ War Blvd.

Lexington, KY 40515 (859) 286-5111 www.legacyreserveky.com

114

167

ALZ, IL, PC

80

Opened Sept. 2017/Y limited availability

Community fee: $200/ Rates starting at $2,700

Carol Brinegar (Executive Director)/ Atlas Senior Living

NA/ Opened Sept. 2017

6

Ashwood Place 102 Leonardwood Frankfort, KY 40601 (502) 223-5551 www.ashwoodplace.com

102

103

IL

33

92%/Y

Community fee: 1/2 month rent and deposit fee; 1/2 month rent based on size of unit; Studio, 1BR, 2BR, Cottages

Five Star Senior Living

NA/ 1991

7

Magnolia Springs Senior Living 2701 Magnolia Springs Dr. Lexington, KY 40511 (859) 410-6575, www.lexington.magnolia-springs.net

97

72

AL, ALZ, IL

65

60%/Y

New resident fee: $1,000/ Monthly fee: (AL) $2,995$4,695; (ALZ) $4,395$6,295

Michael Berg (Executive Director)

Lexington, Ky./ 2015

8

Mayfair Village 3310 Tates Creek Rd. Lexington, KY 40502 (859) 266-2129 www.mayfairseniors.com

72

72

IL, PC

64

96%/Y

One time community fee $2,000 upon move-in.

Monthly rates begin at $3,062. Studio, 1BR, 2BR, extra-large penthouse apartments/PC: $153 per day

Sharon Davis (Executive Director)/ Mayfair Village Retirement Center, Inc.

NA/ 1985

9

Rose Mary C. Brooks Place 200 Rose Mary Dr. Winchester, KY 40391 (859) 745-4904 www.brooksplace.org

64

64

AL, IL

31

100%/Y

ALF deposit: $2,000 ($1,700 refundable) Efficiency apartments: $2,870; 1BR: $3,290; 2BR: $3,825; IL deposit: $7,500; IL prices range from $170,000-$200,000

Tim Janes (Executive Director)

Winchester, Ky./ 2000

10

Hamburg Senior Residence 1601 Villa Medici Pass Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 368-7642 www.yournextplacetolive.com

62

62

IL

2

100%/Y

Garden-style homes, pricing based on sizes

WND

WND

11

Liberty Ridge Senior Living Community 701 Liberty Ridge Ln. Lexington, KY 40509 (859) 543-9449 www.libertyridge.com

59

113

AL, ALZ, IL

50

100%/Y

Cottages buy in $180,000-$230,000; refundable entrance fees range, monthly service $390

Dan Wilkerson (Director)/ SeniorLife Solutions, LLC

Indianapolis, IN/ 1999

12

Ashland Terrace 475 S. Ashland Ave. Lexington, KY 40502 (859) 266-2581 www.ashlandterrace.org

35

35

IL

19

100%/Y

Minimum rent: $850; maximum rent: $1,850; rent based on monthly income

Kelly Weber (Executive Director)

Established Lexington, KY/ 1849, present location 1960

Source: Information obtained from retirement communities websites and company representatives. Other communities were contacted but did not respond by deadline. Definitions: Facility Types: AL= Assisted Living, ALZ=Alzheimers Care, PC=Personal Care, IL=Independent Living, Rehab, SN=Skilled Nursing Key: *=Some staff may help with ther types of care provided. **IL=100 units units are HUD subsided. ***=ALZ located at Sayre Healthcare Center. NA=Not Available or Not Applicable. WND=Would Not Disclose.

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Conventions March 28-April 1

2018 Run The Bluegrass Half Marathon. Various hotel rooms available throughout Lexington.

6,000 people expected

April 17-21

KCNPNM Regional Conference 2018 - Kentucky Coalition of Nurse Practitioners and Midwives.

Hotel rooms available at Hyatt Regency Lexington. 1,500 people expected.

April 24-26

2018 KHSAA State Archery Championships - Kentucky High School Athletic Association. Hotel rooms available at The Campbell House.

500 people expected.

Commercial Building Permits HBaptist Hospitals Inc, commercial remodel, 2101 Nicholasville Road 106.

LFUCG Public Facilities, commercial remodel, 320 Park Ave. Spy Coast Farm LLC, commercial new addition, 3295 Spy Coast Lane.

Infinity Steeplechase LLC, commercial remodel, 305 Lindenhurst Drive 10102.

Delta T LLC, commercial remodel, 2251 Innovation Drive.

TJH Ashland LLC, commercial new construction, 451 S. Ashland Ave. Fayette Mall Spe LLC, commercial remodel, 3651 Nicholasville Road 508.

Solar Eclipse LLC, commercial remodel, 3581 Harrodsburg Road.

Commonwealth Designs, commercial new construction, 304 Hannah Todd Place.

Hannah Todd Associates, commercial new construction, 320 Hannah Todd Place.

Emerge Development LLC, commercial new construction, 537 W. Fifth St. Grace Free Will Baptist Church Inc, commercial addition, 4281 Haley Road.

2299 Richmond Road LLC, commercial new construction, 2299 Richmond Road.

Serenity PLC LLC, commercial remodel, 1589 Hill View Place 1104.

Commercial Loans David Mabe Prop LLC from Traditional Bank for $25,000.

Mt Melrose LLC from Barbara Joan Haushalter Ira for $28,000.

Tom Easterly LLC from Citizens Commerce Natl Bank for $30,000.

Mt Melrose LLC from Edgington Enterprises Ltd for $35,000.

New Look Prop Inc from Bank Of Lex for $43,862.

Rwkt Prop LLC from Branch Banking & Tr Co for $50,000.

Dealem Prop Group LLC from Traditional Bank for $51,200.

Mt Melrose LLC from Mischner, S James for $60,000.

Mwk Rentals LLC from Mischner, S James for $60,000.

Lincoln Real Est Inc from Mischner, S James for $63,000.

Warstefitz Prop LLC from Traditional Bank for $63,900.

Luradane LLC from Traditional Bank for $67,640.

Foundation Inv LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $68,800.

Eckman Prop LLC from Mischner, S James for $70,000.

Mt Melrose LLC from Mischner, S James for $70,000.

Stinnett Wallace Prop LLC from Republic Bank & Tr Co for $70,000.

Ky Inv Prop LLC from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $72,750.

Albransco LLC from Mischner, S James for $73,000.

A & A Bassett Prop LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $75,000.

Mt Melrose LLC from Mischner, S James for $75,000.

Walcott Prop LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $77,500.

H2 Constr LLC from Mischner, S James for $80,000.

Ngt Inv LLC from Traditional Bank for $84,000.

Albransco LLC from Mischner, S James for $85,000.

Rjjc Inv LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $88,000.

Manies Family Prop LLC from Mischner, S James for $95,000.

Geary Prop LLC from University Of Ky Fed Cr Un for $100,000.

Grace Free Will Baptist Ch Inc from Central Bank & Tr Co for $100,000.

Nandino Realty LLC from U S Bank Na for $100,000.

Rentals 2 Rent LLC from Community Tr Bank Inc for $101,600.

Walcott Prop LLC from Mischner, S James for $102,500.

Dennis Anderson Inv 1700 LLC from United Bank & Capital Tr Co for $104,099.

Windy Corner LLC from Republic Bank & Tr Co for $108,500.

Genesis Prop Of Ky 5 LLC from Central Bank & Tr Co for $110,000.

Lakes Edge Dev LLC from Park Comm Cr Un for $111,200.

Albransco LLC from Kentucky Bank for $114,400.

Restoration Lex LLC from Town Square Bank Inc for $120,000.

Brisk Prop LLC from Town & Country Bank & Tr Co for $123,145.

H&H Real Prop LLC from University Of Ky Fed Cr Un for $123,200.

Carter Co Real Est LLC from Carter Holdings LLC for $133,933.

Jht Prop LLC from Community Tr Bank Inc for $140,000.

Rankin Prop Iv LLC from Traditional Bank for $140,332.

Jht Prop LLC from Community Tr Bank Inc for $145,600.

Webb Beatty Homes LLC from Cumberland Valley Natl Bank & Tr Co for $148,000.

Gdp Holdings LLC from Eckman, Shane C for $153,417.

Via Vitae Dev LLC from Traditional Bank for $155,422.

Ted Kessinger Constr Co Inc from Traditional Bank for $155,650.

Sjm Homes LLC from Central Bank & Tr Co for $157,500.

Huber Real Est #1 LLC from Whitaker Bank Inc for $160,000.

Vista Prop Mgt LLC from Central Bank & Tr Co for $170,000.

Via Vitae Dev LLC from Town & Country Bank & Tr Co for $171,333.

Lafayette Prop LLC from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $172,000.

Via Vitae Dev LLC from Traditional Bank for $172,800.

Dewaal Thoroughbreds LLC from Traditional Bank for $175,000.

Db Homes LLC from Traditional Bank for $176,200.

Yley LLC from Beau View LLC for $180,000.

Lexington Bg Rentals LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $182,750.

Tci Woodland 2016 LLC from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $184,000.

Tigresa Prop LLC from Finance Of America Commercial LLC for $186,940.

Prominent Prop LLC from Bank Of Lex for $200,000.

Seaside Prop LLC from Farmers Natl Bank Of Danville for $215,000.

Db Homes LLC from Traditional Bank for $219,700.

P Anderson Prop LLC from United Bank & Capital Tr Co for $220,024.

Oldham Holding LLC from Traditional Bank for $224,363.

Greystone Lodge LLC from Bank Of Hindman for $242,250.

Prominent Prop LLC from Bank Of Lex for $249,050.

Emerge Dev LLC from Traditional Bank for $252,000.

Three Six Seven Mlk Holdings LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $255,000.

Mt Melrose Ii LLC from Edgington, Terry for $275,000.

Leathan Prop LLC from Park Comm Cr Un for $276,650.

Rjjc Inv LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $285,000.

Mulberry Bldr LLC from United Bank & Capital Tr Co for $285,350.

Pinnacle Commercial Prop LLC from U S Bank Na for $289,913.

Rwkt Prop LLC from Branch Banking & Tr Co for $292,000.

Main St Homes Inc from Central Bank & Tr Co for $310,000.

Derossett Group LLC from Traditional Bank for $312,000.

E Anderson Prop LLC from United Bank & Capital Tr Co for $314,221.

Off Season LLC from Bank Of Hindman for $315,000.

Nelson House Prop LLC from Peo-

ples Exchange Bank for $325,600.

Atkins Homes LLC from Traditional Bank for $327,000.

Premier Home Bldr LLC from Whitaker Bank Inc for $330,000.

Midland Crossing LLC from Traditional Bank for $340,000.

Atkins Homes LLC from Salyersville Natl Bank for $340,850.

Premier Home Bldr LLC from Whitaker Bank Inc for $355,000.

Basa LLC from Republic Bank & Tr Co for $358,650.

Maynard Bldr Inc from United Bank & Capital Tr Co for $360,255.

Jaglets Prop LLC from Kentucky Bank for $374,000.

Winchester 836 LLC from First Southern Natl Bank for $375,000.

Db Homes LLC from Bank Of Lex for $384,000.

Cambridge Prop LLC from Taylor County Bank for $399,500.

Jcm LLC from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $407,000.

Dos Eles LLC from Traditional Bank for $420,800.

Td Mgt & Consult LLC from Peoples Exchange Bank for $464,000.

Bluegrass Fertility Ctr Prop LLC from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $489,371.

Westhampton LLC from Fifth Third Bank for $499,000.

Warner Realty Inc from Central Bank & Tr Co for $500,000.

L Anderson Prop LLC from United Bank & Capital Tr Co for $517,793.

Toc Prop LLC from Forcht Bank Na for $530,060.

Flint & Oak Holdings LLC from Traditional Bank for $538,000.

Ashleys Wheel & Brake Serv Inc from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $562,000.

Howard & Nash Communities LLC from Traditional Bank for $581,250.

Laxmi Narayan Iii LLC from Independence Bank Of Ky for $600,000.

Parkland Llp from Traditional Bank for $676,858.

Cph Industry Ptnr LLC from Central Bank & Tr Co for $1,000,000.

Russell Cave Prop Ii LLC from Citizens Commerce Natl Bank for $1,000,000.

Tci Woodland 2016 LLC from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $1,005,919.

Afton Comm Dev LLC from Cumberland Sec Bank Inc for $1,170,000.

Pacific Urban Prop LLC from Patch Of Land Lending LLC for $1,541,400.

Community Montessori School Inc from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $1,662,000.

City View Inv LLC from Bank Of The Bluegrass for $1,899,750.

New Stoney Brooke LLC from Wells Fargo Bank Na for $2,875,000.

Map Real Est LLC from Toyota Motor Cr Corp for $12,150,000.

Cs Shillito Park LLC from Benefit St Ptnr Realty Operating Ptnrshi for $39,000,000.

Dar Shillito Park LLC from Benefit St Ptnr Realty Operating Ptnrshi for $39,000,000.

Centrepoint Hotel Ptnr I LLC from Greer Land Co Restaurants LLC for $46,500,000.

Cf Ky Owner LLC from Acore Capital Mtg Lp-Agent for $106,031,250.

Cf Spring Gate Pool 2 LLC from Acore Capital Mtg Lp-Agent for $106,031,250.

2 Tates Creek Lex Ky Hotel LLC from Goldman Sachs Mtg Co for $132,429,000.

295 Nicholasville Lex Ky Hotel LLC from Goldman Sachs Mtg Co for $132,429,000.

Branch Tates Creek Assoc LLC from Jackson Natl Life Ins Co for $299,332,500.

Charter Foods Inc from Regions Bk-Agent for $540,000,000.

Bw Rri I LLC from Barclays Bank Plc for $800,000,000.

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Auto | Tketskartel, owned by Ngagne Sow, 859-536-6336.

Braiding Salon | Lala’s Braiding Boutique, 859-229-4544.

Bus Consltg | Frye Group LLC, owned by Clark Frye, 859-7530672.

Cell Phone Repair | Tech Life Partners 3, owned by Scott Hill, 814 Euclid Ave Lex Ky. Clean/Janitorial | Tidy Tim Cleaning Inc, owned by Brad Pagel, 3005 Crab Apple Court Lex Ky, 859-536-4254.

Cleaning | Clean & Shine, owned

by Donna Owens, 421 Elm Tree Lane, 859-536-4005.

Clinical Research Trials | Amr-Ckra Inc, owned by Debbie Dyer, 859977-7146.

Coffee Shop | De Wet Investment Corpor, owned by Hendrik C De Wet, 270-206-0571.

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Comm Real Est | Wmg LLC, owned by Steven Wathen, 859619-3232.

Comm Roofing | Ideal Building Solutions, owned by Michael Finney, 770-451-7183.

Commercial Photography | Premium Property Images, owned by Allyson Jones, 859-338-0918.

Comp Fac Mgt Svc | Schneider Elec It Missio, owned by Robert Murray Vp, 1601 Mercer Rd Lex Ky, 847-925-3162.

Constr | Built By Bedson LLC, owned by Tyler Bedson, 859-2544428.

Construction | Brunenann Brothers Const, owned by David Brunenann, 513-659-4880.

Construction | Corona Construction/Rest, owned by Jesus Corona, 859-481-0037.

Construction | Gonzalez Construction, owned by Amador Gonzalez, 859-402-6004.

Construction | Infinity Construction, owned by Chris Gibson, 770-831-9801.

Construction | S & H Construction, owned by William Barron, 859559-5375.

Construction | Stark Construction LLC, owned by Paul Stark, 1516 Clairview Drive, 812-406-4127.

Construction | Zig LLC, owned by Chad Zigmund, 859-420-3523.

Consulting | Gp Strategies Corp, 443-367-9600.

Contracting | Edens Electric Co, owned by William Edens, 502589-2550.

Contractor Remodel | Sextons Specialties LLC, owned by Jack Michael Sexton, 502-370-7394.

Contractor/Remodel/Paint | Rufus Contractor, owned by Emmanuel Gomez, 1722 Russell Cave Rd Lex, 859-608-8156.

Cosmetic Tattoo | Owned by Holly Meredith, 704 N Limestone Lexinton Ky, 859-667-2769.

Dentist | A+Family Dentistry LLC, owned by N Elaine Pennington, 859-273-2224.

Directional Drilling | C & J Drilling LLC, owned by Chris Conley, 1681 Ky Route 40w Staffords, 606-7928971.

Doc Imaging | Nuance Document Imaging, owned by Daniel Tempesta, 731 Cooper Drive Lex Ky, 781-565-5101.

Domestic Emplr | Owned by Misti Meece, 859-253-1686.

Domestic Emplr | Owned by Michael Smith, 859-253-1686.

Elec Contr | Blue Sky Elec Co, owned by Isaac Fedyniak Pres, 1750 Alexandria Dr Ste 4 Le, 859469-8439.

Elec Contr | Vogt Electrical Svc, owned by Jeffrey B Mccleese, 513-378-5276.

Electrical | Tout Holding Enterprises, 859-585-5236.

Electrical Contracting | Richie Electrical, owned by Jason Richie, 605 Hopewell Park Lex, 859-5958128.

Electrical Contractor | Rc Elctric LLC, owned by Ryan Crofts, 424 Applegrove Dr Nicholasville, 859552-5693.

Eng Consltg | Cornerstone Environmenta, owned by Richard A Lemmon, 2456 Fortune Dr Ste 170 Lex, 626-470-2504.

Eng Related Svc | Bacon Farmer Workman Eng, owned by Mark Workman, 270-443-1995.

Eng Svc | Hdr Construction Control, owned by Jody Debs Sec, 2517 Sir Barton Way Lex Ky, 402926-7154.

Engineer | Owned by Christopher P Mills, 873 Ridgebrook Rd Lex, 859-684-7627.

Entertainment | Owned by Levester Musgrove, 931-220-8692.

Equine Boarding | Amaroo Farm LLC, owned by Jamie L Rfost, 859621-3428.

Farm | Owned by John B Simpson, 362 Stratford Dr Lex Ky, 859-2291351.

Fitness Facility | Urban Ninja Project LLC, owned by Darius

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Gen Contr | H & H Structural Contr, owned by Gary Hart, 513874-8764.

Gen Contr | Mooring Recovery Svc, owned by Ben Mooring, 888293-9953.

Gen Contr | Place Services Inc, owned by Troy Place, 404-4284364.

General Contractors | Rs Egenstafer Cons LLC, owned by Robert Egenstafer, 2615 E Hwy 60, 859388-0294.

Gift/Novelty Sales | Nasir Groups Inc, owned by Zafar Nasir Pres, 859-455-6953.

Heating/Hvac | Climate Solutions LLC, owned by John J Cox, 30 E High St Mt Sterling Ky, 859-5859944.

Higher Ed Dist Lrning | Youngstown State Univ, owned by Non Profit, 330-941-2355.

Hvac | Owned by Clark Wade, 859-585-6391.

Hvac Contr | Total Comfort Solutions, owned by Joshua Layne, 606-356-7580.

Hvac Contractor | Commonwealth Climate, owned by Justin Farris, 108 Apple Forest Ct Lex, 859-4902288.

Hvac Svc/Repr | High Vac Svc LLC, owned by Paul Mccarty Jr, 859705-6137.

Insurance | Ga Mavon & Co, owned by Philip G Mavon, 810632-7015.

Insurance | Mountain Life Ins Co, owned by Terry Forcht, 2416 Sir Barton Way Lex Ky, 859-367-5243.

Insurance Agent | Aig Claims Inc, owned by Josephone Lowman, 713-831-8379.

Insurance Agent | Aig Pc Global Svc, owned by Josephine Lowman, 713-831-8379.

Insurance Premium Tax | Amerisure Partners Ins, 248-442-6689.

Interior Construction | Ken Isaacs Properties Ll, owned by Kenneth R Isaacs, 859-254-9988.

It Consltg | Corus Group LLC, owned by Ron Hinkle, 3861 Hidden Springs Lex Ky, 678-969-3392.

Law Firm | Michul, John R Law PLLC, owned by John R Michul, 859-545-1166.

Lawn And Landscaping | Straight Lines, owned by Audier Gutierrez, 4130 Georgetown Rd J1 Lex, 859396-2437.

Lawn Care | Owned by Roger L Birch, 859-252-2804.

Massage Therapy | Owned by Heather Withrow, 107 Dennis Dr Lex, 859-447-8633.

Mortgage Lending | Loandepot.

Com LLC, owned by Peter Macdonald, 523 Wellington Way Ste 325, 949-434-5558.

Online Membrshp Mgt Svc | Greektrack LLC, owned by Anthony William Schmidt, 859-5592103.

Optometrist | Guerrant Ptometrists LLC, owned by Wallace Guerrant, 859-749-8458.

Payroll Only/Consulting | Corporate Screening &, owned by James A Olivo, 716-583-4628.

Payroll Only/Consulting | Straight Arrow, owned by Thomas Karpowich, 2112 Island Point Dr Lex, 813-792-1939.

Payroll Provider | Manage Payroll LLC, owned by Clark Frye, 859753-0672.

Pedicab | Sprocket Jockey Pedicab, owned by Cristino Santiago, 859-270-1413.

Personal Chef | Fiddle Leaf Fig Personal, owned by Anne E Webster, 765-366-1770.

Pet Grooming | Janas Pawlished Pets, owned by Jana Hayes, 3120 Pimlico Parkway Ste 124, 859270-0631.

Photography Studio | Rtd Studios LLC, owned by Colin Doherty, 2428 Palumbo Dr #140 Lex, 323972-2119.

Plumbing | Cao Plumbing LLC, owned by Van Cao, 859-8064851.

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Political Campaign | Gray, Jim For Congress, 859-533-4182.

Prof Empr Org | G&A Outsourcing Inc, owned by John W Allen Pres, 3805 Gladman Way Lex Ky, 713-784-1181.

Prop Holdings/Invest | Green Prop Holdings Ashl, owned by C Clay Green, 859-254-5751.

Property Maintenance | Vest Brothers Property, owned by Joshua R Vest, 2045 St Teresa Dr Lex, 859-351-1763.

Property Services | L Pac Property Services, owned by Timothy Lee, 1041 Kees Rd Lexington Ky, 859983-2135.

Prov Cstmr Lodging Reserv | Fleetcor Tech Oper Co, owned by Ron Clark, 888-852-5100.

Real Est Agent | Owned by Mary Galus, 859-254-4428.

Remodeling | The Guardsman Remodeling, owned by Dusty Brummett, 859-251-6654.

Rental | 1910 Garden Springs Dr, owned by Kevin Cronin, 2904 Affirmed Ct Unit A, 859-396-2492.

Resell Items | Amo Tom Kmo Marketplace, 859-619-0197.

Restaurant | Tandoor Express LLC, owned by Palwinder Singh, 630 Euclid Avenue Ste 102, 859-4894039.

Restaurant | Thai Street Food, owned by Pantipar Sirisomboon, 3340 Clays Mill Rd #110 Lex, 859309-3185.

Restaurant & Bar | Lorraines Bar & Grill, owned by Melissa Lewis, 909 Winchester Rd Lex. Retired Racehorses | Retired Racehorse Project, owned by Non Profit, 410-798-5140.

Roofing & Construction | No Bull Roofing &, owned by Ashley A Martin, 113 Braemar Dr Richmond, 859-661-9918.

Sales/Uniform Headwear | Prowess Uniform Solution, owned by Eric Lavell Lynes, 306 W Main St Ste 301, 502-545-2582.

Sales/Yarn | Spotted Ewe Fibers LLC, owned by Rebecca Giles, 596 St Anthony Dr Lex, 859-575-0040.

Speech Lang Path Svc | I Can Say That LLC, owned by Adrienne W Hatton, 859-797-5367.

Sub Contractor | Jac Design LLC, owned by Jeffery A Cook, 859797-1296.

Tattoo Artist | Owned by Corinne M Alsdorf, 704 N Limestone Lex. Tech/Telecommunications | Disruptive Visions LLC, owned by Heritage Resources Group, 130 W New Circle Rd #170, 949-5023811.

Telecomm Install | Bazon Cix And Associates, owned by Gerald L Brooks, 1894 Mcgranthan #250, 757-410-2128.

Thoroughbred Horse Farm | Manchester Farm LLC, owned by Mike G Rutherford, 859-254-4775.

Tile Installation | Owned by Keith Moll, 487 Stratford Dr Lex, 859420-4911.

Travel Mktg | Dragon Trail Interactive, owned by John Grayson, 859-309-8026.

Uber Driver | Owned by Hasson Thabata, 2456 Checkerberry Dr, 859-420-9799.

Veterinarian | Cory Williams Dvm PLLC, owned by Cory Williams Dvm, 859-621-3722.

Warehouse & Transportation | Penske Logistics LLC, owned by Scott Cebul, 2495 Palumbo Drive, 610-775-6053.

Whole Coin Trade | Wholesale Numismatics, owned by Jake Walker, 4071 Tates Creek Ctr Ste 307, 270-577-8446.

Wholesale Dist Auto Tools | Matco Tools Corp, 330-926-5319.

Windstream Contr | Owned by Michael A Lyons, 130 W New Circle Rd # 170, 606-471-0957.

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Womens Apparel Sales | Chandler Reese Boutique, owned by Caroline Ingrassia, 195 Kentucky Ave Lex, 859-225-6470. BL

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Who’sWho New Hires & Promotions Traditional Bank has announced Kristin Disponette as its new director of advertising, and Tiffany Pickett as digital marketing officer.

Architecture, design and planning firm Lord Aeck Sargent recently promoted 15 of its members, including Elisabeth Hunt, AIA, NCARB, LEED Green Associate, based out of the Lexington office.

Refined Social Events owner Melody Rodgers has announced the hiring of Jen Guiler, event and wedding planner; Bailey Salmon: associate event designer and stylist; Kathryn Dunlap, associate event designer and planner; and Amy Chesney, brand and marketing manager.

Omni Architects has announced the addition of Libby Lamb and Shelby Hilliard to its design team.

Traditional Bank has recently named Nicole Ware and Patrick Towles as business development associates.

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Jeff Stringer, a longtime University of Kentucky professor who is well-known by members of Kentucky’s forest industries, has been named chair of the University of Kentucky Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, subject to board of trustees’ approval.

The Kentucky Association for Economic Development (KAED), the Commonwealth’s forum of professionals dedicated to the acceleration of economic development in Kentucky, announces the selection of Jamie Nieves as director of partnership services.

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