LEXINGTON, KY - Developer Dudley Webb announced today that his company will begin filling-in the block-sized, barren depression left by the demolition of buildings to make way for construction of his delayed CentrePointe hotel/condo/retail high-rise. Plans call for trucks to begin hauling soil to the site on Monday. The dirt was contributed by The Buckingham Companies, builder of The Lex apartment complex on South Broadway.
"I think there was general interest in the community in getting this done," said Webb, who is awaiting word on the financing of CentrePointe, stalled by the 2009 death of an unidentified foreign investor. "Everybody wants to get the downtown looking the best that it can be, even if it's only on a temporary basis."
Webb said the Buckingham companies has agreed to help load and haul dirt from some 20,000 cubic feet of soil excavated to construct The Lex. "We'll bear the rest of the expense," he said. "It's twice what we need, but they've welcomed us to take whatever we can use of that dirt."
The dirt will be spread and the site recontoured, Webb said. "And then we're going to add six inches of additional top soil and make it green. Then we'll figure out whatever other improvements we're going to make to the property at that point."