🔥 Top Scoops in Louisville, KY

Botanica Inc. has submitted a building permit to add a Bonsai Garden, a support building called the Bonsai House, an Overlook, and a landscaped allée pathway at 1433 Frankfort Ave, Unit 201, with the project valued at an estimated $7,950,000. The one-story, 2,174-square-foot project (designed by Perkins+Will) includes paving, planting and utility work to connect the features and will be used for developing and winterizing bonsai trees; the permit shows a pending parking-lot permit verification before issuance.

University of Louisville holds a friable asbestos "blanket" permit for the Belknap Campus at 2301 S 3rd St that lets trained crews respond to sudden, unexpected events and remove up to 1,500 linear or square feet of friable asbestos-containing material campus-wide, with no single project exceeding 260 linear or square feet. The permit runs from January 1 to December 31, 2026, requires monthly removal reports, and lists National Environmental Contracting and UofL’s Dept. of Environmental Health and Safety as abatement contacts with waste sent to Outer Loop Landfill.

Louisville Medical Center Inc. has a friable asbestos abatement permit for 235 Abraham Flexner Way that covers the entire medical center campus and allows removal of friable asbestos-containing materials during sudden, unexpected events. The permit authorizes glovebag removal of up to 1,500 linear or square feet total (with no more than 260 LF/SF per individual project), requires monthly reporting of all removals, and lists National Environmental Contracting, Inc. as the abatement and hauling contractor with WM Outer Loop Landfill as the disposal site. In plain terms, it’s a standing plan to quickly and safely deal with surprise asbestos finds around the campus without a last-minute scramble.