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The Bel Group success continues 150 years after the Bel family adventure began. Present in over 130 countries, backed by 12,000 employees and bringing smile to over 400 million consumers, the Bel Group is a world leader in branded cheeses. The Group strategy aims at doubling size by 2025.
Calhoun Construction Services provides ongoing facility maintenance and small construction projects for the Lietchfield, Kentucky plant.
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Year Completed: Ongoing
Project Location: Lietchfield, KY
Contract Type: General Contractor
Springs Valley Meadows
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Springs Valley Meadows in French Lick, IN is an American Senior Community.
Each American Senior Community is part of the neighborhood in which it exists. Their leaders and staff live in surrounding areas and know the community well. They value the same things in life that you do. The foundation of the senior living communities is based on the knowledge that they will be part of your neighborhood for many, many years.
When someone chooses to live in one of the American Senior Community retirement communities or health care facilities, they become an extension of their family. They take the time to get to know each of the residents and their families on a personal level. Their communities are made up of individuals, and with that in mind, they focus on serving individual needs.
Calhoun Construction Services served as the General Contractor self-performing the Phase 1 renovation of the main entrance, dining room, nurses offices and a combination of several resident rooms. Along with the interior renovations that consist of select demolition, framing, drywall, painting and flooring – a new exterior courtyard will be updated for the residents and their guests.
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Year Completed: 2016
Project Location: French Lick, IN
Contract Type: General Contractor
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Bill Weyland isn’t the only one in town digging around in preparation for a new hotel. Tim Mulloy and the Poe Companies have also begun pre-construction work for a new eight-story Homewood Suites hotel on the northeast corner of Seventh Street and Market Street. Thanks to a tipster for alerting us to the activity.
We spoke with Tim Mulloy about the activity on the corner and he told us that while construction hasn’t yet begun, crews from LG&E are on site installing utility vaults.
“I’m actually walking back from that site right now,” Mulloy told Broken Sidewalk yesterday. “They just started digging Tuesday.” He said the vault is an important step before general construction can begin.
Work on the vault is expected to take around eight to nine weeks. “Our construction timeline has always been to start in late October or early November,” Mulloy added. If all goes according to plan, Mulloy said the hotel could be open by February 2018.
Oakwood Specialty Clinic hosts grand opening
By Jean West
SOMERSET, Ky. (July 30, 2016) – Oakwood Specialty Clinic, located on the Bluegrass Oakwood Campus, held its grand opening today in conjunction with its annual Celebration Day festivities. This new South Central Kentucky clinic will provide a central location for medical providers to serve the comprehensive health needs of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Nationally, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are recognized as a medically underserved population. The specialty clinic model sets a standard for other states to follow by creating a highly effective environment to address underlying concerns that improve the quality of life for individuals who may not be able to easily communicate information about their health and well-being.
CHFS Deputy Secretary Judge Timothy Feeley attended the grand opening and said the new construction is a welcome addition for community members with I/DD and their families.
“We are pleased and excited to celebrate the opening of this wonderful clinic,” he said. “Oakwood Specialty Clinic expands scarce health care resources in South Central Kentucky and provides them to a doubly under-served population left vulnerable by lack of specialized, holistic services. Being able to do so in such a beautiful location, supported by individuals, families, the community and agencies, is a tribute to the vision of those here at Oakwood who planned it for so long.”
Don Putnam, father of David Putnam, said the opening of the clinic means a brighter future for his son and others like him.
David is 51, with a mental age of 18 months. He is non-verbal and does not use sign language, and has multiple disabilities, including a profound level of intellectual disability (ID), total bilateral deafness and cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
He has no way of reporting acts of abuse, neglect or exploitation, and no way to explain to a nurse or doctor how he feels or where he hurts. David was already a resident of Bluegrass Oakwood, but with the recent opening of the new Oakwood Specialty Clinic, Don Putnam said his son’s chances of receiving the life-giving specialized care he so desperately needs are greatly enhanced. “We and other parents like us can rest assured that knowledgeable professional staff will be there to understand complex medical needs and then take the appropriate actions to meet those needs,” he said.
Don Putnam is also president of Parent-Relative Family Organization for Oakwood Facilities Inc. (PROOF), and he spoke for families celebrating together at the event.
“As President of PROOF, representing families of Bluegrass Oakwood residents, I want to express our complete support for the expansion of the Oakwood medical facilities and the formation of the Oakwood Specialty Intermediate Care Clinic,” Don Putnam said. “We celebrate this major service improvement available to many deserving persons that do not reside on the grounds of Oakwood.
“The clinic will bring much needed specialized primary care, psychiatry, epilepsy and dental services to all persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout the region of Kentucky surrounding Oakwood,” he said. “Adding this clinic advances the concept we support of continuing to enhance Oakwood’s position of being a Center of Excellence for persons with I/DD.”
Along with a full array of state-of-the-art medical, psychological, therapeutic and dental services provided on an outpatient basis, the clinic also offers education programs for direct support staff involved with individualized patient care and a centralized contact for all services provided by the clinic.
Oakwood Facility Director David Phelps called the clinic opening a landmark day.
“Even though we have been providing excellent inpatient and outpatient services for individuals for many years, we are excited to have a new modern building that matches our excellent service and reflects our continued efforts to be a resource for the community,” Phelps said. “The opening of our clinic is another milestone in our transformation of being a traditional long-term care facility to a short-term stabilization facility and medical services for the community.”
Celebration Day at the campus also featured activities for families of residents and tours of the new clinic.
Oakwood Specialty Clinic joins Lee and Hazelwood Specialty Clinics, which opened in 2014, in providing high quality, integrated medical care with dignity and respect for those individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Such facilities are unique across the country and have received both state and national recognition since their opening.
Bluegrass Oakwood is operated in conjunction with Bluegrass.org, the regional Community Mental Health Center, and Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities, part of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS). – News from the Commonwealth of Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Oakwood Community and Specialty Clinic grand opening Saturday in Somerset
Will serve adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities
SOMERSET, Ky. (July 29, 2016) — The Oakwood Community and Specialty Clinic will have its grand opening at 1 p.m. on Saturday in Somerset. The clinic will serve an array of health care needs for adults with intellectual and other developmental disabilities (I/DD).
The clinic will provide adults with IDDs state-of-the-art medical, psychological, therapeutic and dental services provided on an outpatient basis and will also provide education programs for direct support staff involved with individualized patient care and a centralized contact for all services provided by the clinic.
The grand opening, at Oakwood Campus, 2441 US 27, Somerset, will feature activities for families of residents and tours of the new clinic.
Expected to attend the ceremony are: Cabinet for Health and Family Services Deputy Secretary Judge Timothy Feeley; BHDID Acting Commissioner Wendy Morris; Parent-Relative Family Organization for Oakwood Facilities Inc. President, Don Putnam; Somerset Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Bobby Clue; and Bluegrass.org CEO Paul Beatrice.
AT&T says Churchill Downs DAS handled record amount of peak data usage during Derby
by Ben Munson |
May 10, 2016 4:56pm
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AT&T (NYSE: T) and DAS provider Mobilitie have released some numbers for mobile data usage rates at Churchill Downs during the Kentucky Derby, including what the companies are calling a record of 815 GB used during a single hour.
The record for peak hourly usage occurred between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. EST during the race and includes data that ran over the DAS network as well as over AT&T’s nearby Cells on Wheels (COW) and cell sites. Overall, the companies say AT&T customers near Churchill Downs burned through 11.4 terabytes of data during the weekend. The total means data use has grown 430 percent over the past four years.
The updates Mobilitie this year made to the underground server room and its managed distributed antenna system on site were designed to boost capacity by 50 percent. It ended up supporting more than twice the amount of data (4.3 terabytes) that ran over AT&T’s network last year.
The neutral-host DAS constructed by Mobilitie consists of more than 290 antennas and more than 1 million feet of fiber optic cable running through the venue.
In addition to AT&T, T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS) also used Mobilitie’s DAS at Churchill Downs to support its customers mobile data usage.
For the entire Derby weekend, AT&T and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) saw a combined 20.15 terabytes of data — a total of Verizon’s 8.75 terabytes and AT&T’s 11.4. As Mobile Sports Report points out, that’s a big increase over the 2 terabytes AT&T customers used and the 1.37 terabytes Verizon customers used during the Kentucky Derby weekend two years ago.
Tennis Complex Honored as USTA Facility Award Winner
The United States Tennis Association announced the Owensboro Tennis Complex as one of 12 winners in the USTA Facility Awards program. This annual program recognizes excellence in the construction and renovation of tennis facilities throughout the United States.
The $4.1 million tennis complex opened in April 2015 and features six indoor courts (inside the Centre Court building) and nine outdoor courts. The facility was built through a partnership between the City of Owensboro and the Owensboro-Daviess County Tennis Association.
To be considered for an award, facilities must be under the jurisdiction of a park and recreation department, an educational institution, a nonprofit corporation or be a private or commercially owned and operated facility that offers both USTA and public programming designed to help grow tennis.
Facilities were judged on the following criteria:
- overall layout and adaptation to site;
- excellence of court surface and lights;
- ease of maintenance;
- accommodations for players, spectators, and press/officials;
- aesthetics;
- graphics (including the use of signs and landscaping);
- amenities such as casual seating for spectators, food services, and social areas;
- and the facilities’ participation in USTA programs.
The Owensboro Tennis Complex will be honored on September 1 at an awards luncheon during the USTA semi-annual meeting.
Kentucky Wildcats Football: A look at the $45 million football training facility
By Jeremy Chisenhall on Jul 21, 2016, 12:15p
One way to help your football program when it’s in a rebuild period is to physically rebuild their facilities, and Kentucky has done just that.
The Wildcats football team now gets to enjoy a state-of-the-art $45 million training facility that totals 100,000 square feet.
The athletics website released an article on it this morning, showing player reactions to seeing it as well as giving us more details. You’ll definitely want to see their reactions, as they’re something similar to a kid on Christmas morning.
As you can see from the video, there’s a new weight room, training room, locker room and team film room.
That new weight room is massive, and is sure to accommodate every player for team workouts.
As for the locker room, it features ventilated lockers that will keep the room fresh, and those lockers have cup holders and phone chargers, both essentials for today’s college student. It also comes with the massive media board that you saw in the center back wall, along with a couple of TVs.
The film room looks quite a bit like an actual movie theater as you could see from the video, and it also sounds like one. The room’s technology features high-quality sound and video so the players can make the most of their film sessions (they even get the THX audio intro).
Those aren’t the only great parts though, as this new facility features a beautiful lobby with a massive TV, smaller meeting rooms for position groups, a team dining area with “Chef Marty,” and even a barber shop (yes, a barber shop).
But all the upgrades aren’t just for the players. There’s been plenty of work done to make the coaches feel right at home as well. Head Coach Mark Stoops has a new office overlooking the practice field, and there’s a new meeting room for coaches and other staff.
Perhaps the best part about this first unveiling is that several of the players expressed their gratitude to AD Mitch Barnhart and University President Eli Capilouto as they began to take in their new training home. It’s good to see that they’re showing thanks.
Now many will question whether or not this place is going to make the team play better, and I’d say that’s a good question, but I’d also answer yes. In the SEC, every school has state-of-the-art football training facilities and equipment, and if you’re not ahead of the curve you’ll quickly find yourself falling behind.
This facility will allow Kentucky’s team to be at its best. The new weight room gives them the best place to get stronger, and the new meeting and film rooms will allow them to relax in comfort as they study up on their own strengths and weaknesses, as well as opponents’ strengths and weaknesses.
On top of that, the new training rooms and locker rooms are going to make them right at home in this massive facility. Not only will it help current players, but it’ll be a huge recruiting tool for Mark Stoops, letting potential Wildcats see the incredible facilities that they could have at their disposal should they come to Lexington.
Heck, it’s already paid benefits with the recent camps that UK hosted this past weekend. There were a host of four-star prospects and many players holding high-major offers. It was called by some the most talented group of recruits UK has ever had, so if nothing else, the new facility is helping draw elite recruits to Lexington. Just getting great players to visit has been a tough ordeal for Kentucky Football in the past, but not anymore.
With the renovations made to Commonwealth Stadium previously, and now this massive new training facility, Kentucky football is looking better than ever. Hopefully these new and renovated buildings are a sign of more success to come for the program.
More details and unveilings are set to come over the next few days.
Frankfort Shopping Center
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Frankfort is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the seat of Franklin County. Based on population, it is the fifth-smallest state capital in the United States. It is a home rule-class city in Kentucky; the population was 25,527 at the 2010 census. Located along the Kentucky River, Frankfort is the principal city of the Frankfort, Kentucky Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Franklin andAnderson counties.
This Frankfort Shopping Center is located just off the exit on Leonardwood Drive in Frankfort, Kentucky and is owned by John Locke Properties. This strip center includes businesses such as Office Depot, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Check & Go, Tax Pros, Great Clips, Sally Beauty Supply, GNC and Dentistry Today.
Calhoun Construction served as the General Contractor on the Design/Build Renovation of two separate buildings in this major strip center. Calhoun self-performed the exterior renovations while all businesses resumed daily activities uninterrupted.
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Square Footage: 800 sq ft
Year Completed: 2016
Project Location: Frankfort, KY
Contract Type: Design Build
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Posted: Jan 12, 2016 4:36 PM EST Updated: Jan 12, 2016 4:37 PM EST
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A new craft beer bar is coming to the Highlands.
BarFly announced plans Tuesday to open a new HopCat location along Bardstown Road near Grinstead Drive.
The company says it will feature the state’s largest selection of craft beers on tap, a full menu, private event spaces and a deck. Louisville will feature at least 30 varieties of Kentucky-made beer on tap every day along with 100 other craft beers from around the world.
“Kentucky’s Bourbon-making heritage has helped make it an outstanding place for craft beer lovers,” said Mark Sellers, founder and CEO of HopCat and its parent company, BarFly Ventures. “When we decided to open in Louisville we wanted to create a hub that would draw craft beer lovers from the neighborhood and from around the world, showcasing the best beers made in Kentucky and around the world.”
The project will create about 150 new jobs. Officials say they plan to open the Louisville location sometime this summer at 1064 Bardstown Road — where the old Spindletop Draperies was located. It’s right next to the Highlands Tap Room.
There are also HopCat locations in Lexington and eight other cities.
Resumes are being accepted at jobs@hopcat.com.
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