Louisville, KY – The Frankfort Avenue Business Association (FABA) is pleased to announce that the Crescent Hill neighborhood was named one of the top comeback neighborhoods of the South in the January issue of Southern Living Magazine. The article touts the Frankfort Avenue business corridor as a major contributing factor in the resurgence of community pride by Crescent Hill residents.
Bob Hancock and Kit Garrett, owners of Blue Dog Bakery & Café at 2868 Frankfort Avenue, are featured in a photo accompanying the article.
“Having lived in our Victorian Crescent Hill home since 1987, my wife Kathy and I can definitely say that there is indeed something very special about this neighborhood,” says Tim Allen, President of the Crescent Hill Community Council. “It has been a wonderful place to raise our two daughters, one of whom was born at home.”
“Fifteen years ago you didn’t have to look for cars before crossing Frankfort,” says 9th District Councilwoman Tina Ward-Pugh.
Now residents and visitors are able to walk to countless locally owned shops, restaurants, galleries and churches, as well as the local library and Kennedy Park.
Crescent Hill is one of 10 Southern neighborhoods to receive this distinction.
Other neighborhoods are Wilmore/South End in Charlotte, N.C.; Patterson Park in Baltimore; Springfield in Jacksonville, Fla.; North Chattanooga in Tennessee; Historic Fairmount in Fort Worth, Tex.; Viola in Greenville, S.C.; Holy Cross in New Orleans; and Phelps Grove, in Springfield, Mo.
For more information about the Frankfort Avenue Business Association, please visit www.frankfortave.com.
About The Frankfort Avenue Business Association
The Frankfort Avenue Business Association (FABA) has been the backbone of the dramatic, positive change that has made Historic Frankfort Avenue such a vibrant area. FABA’s mission is to enhance the Frankfort Avenue area as a place to do business. The Association works to stimulate economic development and growth along the business corridor and develop and implement marketing activities that promote and improve the business climate. In addition, FABA acts as a unifying force and advocate for solutions when issues emerge in the community, as well as supporting the work of the area neighborhood associations and charitable organizations. FABA helps keep Frankfort Avenue looking its best through clean-up blitz programs, graffiti eradication, and spraying for weeds, in cooperation with Operation Brightside, the Metro Council and the City Arborist. For more information about the thriving historic Frankfort Avenue corridor and FABA, visit www.frankfortave.com.
