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The new 21,000-square-foot corporate headquarters of Kelley Construction Inc. abounds with environmentally friendly construction and design elements.

The Kentuckiana Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. has announced the recipients of its 2009 Building America awards. An independent panel of judges, representing a cross section of the industry, selected winners based on craftsmanship, uniqueness, execution, complexity, safety programs and other criteria, the release said.

Location, appearance, amenities combine to draw interest in Jefferson County business park.

Now for a few words about Joe Kelley Jr., 46, president of Kelley Construction Inc., one of Greater Louisville’s largest construction firms. It’s a straightforward story, because Kelley is as straightforward as they come.

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) June 24 recognized the nation’s safest construction firms in 2008 at the 19th annual Excellence in Construction and National Safety Excellence awards celebration at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Some of the most telling construction data comes not from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), but rather the experiences of individual contracting firms.

For more than three years, the owners of ZT of Louisville Inc., a Qdoba Mexican Grill franchisee, have been looking for a downtown Louisville site for a restaurant, said ZT president Don Doyle.

John Schnatter's Calistoga Bakery Cafe, an upscale sandwich, soup and salad concept originating in Florida, is slated to debut in Louisville later this year.

Two Louisville businessmen are investing $2 million in what they describe as a new-generation car wash that might become the first of a group of operations across Louisville.

Two partners have bought a small parcel on Cannons Lane, where they plan to open a cancer-treatment center that will provide care using a new CyberKnife unit.