On this Derby hangover edition of Sustainability Now!, your host Justin Mog, saddles up with Independent Louisville Mayoral Candidate, Jackie Green, to explore why he is again running for Mayor and what his vision for a more sustainable city looks like.
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Jackie Green first moved to Louisville in 1975. He owns and manages Louisville’s only downtown bicycle shop and urban Louisville properties (commercial and residential). His current project (in the design stage) is Louisville’s first car-free / transit rich mixed use redevelopment on Frankfort Avenue (https://frankfortcrossing.com/). In the 1980s Jackie bought and rehabbed four historic structures in what is now known as NuLu and served the Phoenix Hill Association as president.
He has also volunteered with the Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation (CART), Friends of Beargrass Creek (now Beargrass Creek Alliance), Sierra Club, and others. He chaired a committee that relocated four Sudanese to Louisville working with Kentucky Refugee Ministries and Highland Baptist Church. He began No Wider I-64, a group fighting Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s plan to widen I-64 through Cherokee Park and surrounding neighborhoods. As Executive Director of CART he established a Location Efficient Mortgage program with local banks, Transit Authority of River City (TARC), and Metropolitan Housing Coalition and was successful in forcing a public transit option into the Ohio River Bridges Project (ORBP).
More information about Jackie Green is at https://jackiegreenformayor.org
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