Access Louisville

The hits just keep coming for economic development in Louisville — most recently with the news that KFC is leaving town.That's one of five recent examples of some absolutely abysmal economic news coming out of Louisville. Before that it was Papa John's flight from Louisville to Atlanta. And the news that Humana Inc. is vacating its Main Street tower in Downtown Louisville. You can throw the closure of the Brown-Forman Cooperage and Diageo's ending of bottling operations at Stitzel-Weller Distillery onto the bad news pile too. Those are just the big, semi-recent ones. Add it all up and it doesn't look good for the Derby City. So what's happening here? We give our best shot at an explanation on this week's Access Louisville podcast, which you can check out in the player above.In short, it's not all just one thing. Louisville is on the wrong end of some recent business trends. Obviously, the trends that led restaurant companies (KFC and Papa Johns) out of town are different tha