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The 260-unit, multi-family residential complex will offer Coldstream’s high-tech workforce the ability to live, work, play and innovate all within the research campus.
The residential village will be named FIFTEEN51 Apartments, based on the address at 1551 Aristides Boulevard.
“At the University of Kentucky, we are strategically and thoughtfully expanding both our campus and our relationships with partners in Lexington and beyond,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “FIFTEEN51 will create a new, workforce-friendly environment in the Lexington community. We remain focused on creating environments like this to support the research enterprise, economic opportunities and our community. The Coldstream Research Campus is a product of that effort. It’s another way we earn our way forward, partner for success and ultimately serve as the University for Kentucky.”
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Hopkinsville native Montre’ale Jones earned a Bachelor s Degree in Architecture from UK in 2020. The same day he picked up his cap and gown, the pandemic hit, sending him home for a much longer Spring Break than expected.
But Jones didn’t let the pandemic stop his education. He began working on his Master’s Degree and stuck with it, through a year that burdoned him with isolation, the loss of a close friend, and eventually COVID-19 itself. This January, his mother went to the doctor with what she thought were cold symptoms, only to have her projected one-week recovery turn into a hospitalization that’s lasted four months.
Originally published on April 26, 2021 3:10 pm
Hundreds of people showed up for a Peace Walk at Lexington’s Duncan Park on Saturday, where, in 2014, Antonio Franklin Jr. was killed in a random shooting. As WUKY’s Arlo Barnette reports, state and local leaders led the crowd in calling for an end to gun violence among Lexington’s youth.
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Attendees walked a mile and stood to hear speeches for two hours in the steady rain on a chilly day, as victim’s families, community leaders, and Governor Andy Beshear thanked the crowd for showing up to memorialize Antonio Franklin Jr. and other Kentuckians lost to gun violence. 15 people have died from gun violence in Lexington since the start of the year.
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Attendees walked a mile and stood to hear speeches for two hours in the steady rain on a chilly day, as victim’s families, community leaders, and Governor Andy Beshear thanked the crowd for showing up to memorialize Antonio Franklin Jr. and other Kentuckians lost to gun violence. 15 people have died from gun violence in Lexington since the start of the year.
A winding gallery was set up behind the stage, with pictures of victims hanging from clothespins. Beshear remembered Franklin’s mother, Anita, who died in February of 2020 after years of advocating for gun control and victim’s rights following her son’s death. She was a member of the Survivors Council in the Attorney General’s office when Beshear served as AG. Families of those killed spoke to the need for solidarity in the effort to end gun violence, some asking for better help from law enforcement and city officials. The Antonio Franklin Jr. Violence Intervention Project, led by his brother, Ricardo