This is it folks. We finally get to ó no, have to ó mix business and pleasure.
Any doubts I might have had about this being an amazing time to be living and working in Lexington, Kentucky, have been laid to rest by the experience of helping to form and agreeing to chair the new Downtown Entertainment Development Task Force.
The outpouring of interest and support from a diverse and growing collection of citizens of our city is an eye-opener. It's abundantly clear that there is a shared and very strong desire among members of the business and professional communities, artists, civic activists, government leaders and residents to join cities worldwide that are experiencing an explosion of evening-hours economic development.
They ó and we ó have no choice.
We're in an "experience economy these days in which "quality of life" is a measurement of a city's attractiveness and