NULU: EAST MARKET DISTRICT

Come join us for  a holiday shopping event celebrating the revitalization of retail in the East Market District!

The East Market District is pleased to announce its 1^st ever NuLu Holiday Open House, featuring local retailers that will be open extended hours and offering lots of holiday specials. Participating retailers include Red Tree, Louisville Beer Store, Cake Flour, Peace of the Earth, Bluegrass Green Co., City Concierge, Encuentros, Flame Run Gallery, Flo Gallery, Garner Narrative Gallery, Gifthorse, Hudson Home, Marti Kuehn Gallery, Rellek, Revolver, Salvo, Scout, Swanson Contemporary Gallery, Barry Wooley Designs and more! This holiday shopping extravaganza is family-friendly and open-to-the-public.

Saturday, November 19, 2011 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. along East Market Street.

*Rellek and Peace of the Earth are offering 20% discounts storewide for the Holiday Open House. Stop in a save!

New neighbor, Music WithMe, moved into the 806 1/2 East Market Street location back in March. Michelle Jones, Music WithMe Community Manager, (also author of the popular blog Consuming Louisville) was kind enough to join us for a question and answer session about their new venture!

Q: What do you do?
A: We make Music WithMe, the best way to share music with your Facebook friends and Twitter followers. Music is (and has always been) part of our collective cultural conversation so we’re making it easy to bring music into the places we’re actually talking these days: social networks. Music WithMe also lets you wirelessly sync your iTunes library to your Android phone. Whenever you’re connected via wifi or your phone’s cellular connection you can get your music.
Q: What compelled you to move your offices to East Market Street?
A: We have a lot of foodies in our company so East Market is a great fit for us. We’re in close proximity to some of Louisville’s best restaurants (Mayan Cafe, Wiltshire on Market) and some of the most highly anticipated new restaurants (Harvest, Please and Thank You). Beyond just making our foodies happy this move has put us in the middle of the most exciting neighborhood in Louisville. New businesses seem to open here almost every week and existing businesses are getting better all the time.
Q: Favorite Thing About Working in the NuLu area?
A: For me personally it’s being able to walk to so many restaurants. It makes it possible to have “girls lunches” with friends during the work week. If you ask the guys in the office (I’m the lone woman in our company) I think their answer would be the Louisville Beer Store.

The EMDA held a Tree Well Clean-up & Planting event on Sunday, October 10, 2010 from 10:00am – 1:00pm. This event was held in conjunction with an international work day conceived by the non-profit 350.org (and locally encouraged by Louisville 10/10/10) to help address CO2 emissions and environmental issues. We were one of 16 work parties in Louisville (and one of 7,347 work parties in 188 countries). This work day fit into EMDA’s goal of improving the environmental health and pedestrian experience in our neighborhood.

Thirteen volunteers attended the event, allowing us to clean out eight tree wells in preparation for future planting, weed sidewalks and pick up trash along East Market. Due to a spontaneous contribution of flowering plants, we also planted purple and pink pansies in the front flower beds and pots of the Refuge in Kentucky Church.

A big thanks to the volunteers for taking time out of their busy schedules to make our little pocket of the world healthier and more beautiful!

Thanks to all who participated, stayed open late, and had a great time. This year’s NuLu Festival brought approximately 4,000 people to the 700 block of E Market Street on Saturday, October 2nd. Live music, local food, vendors, shopping,  Louisville Beer Store’s Oktoberfest entertained the crowds.

Special thanks to our generous NuLu Fest 2010 Sponsors!
Interactive Media Lab
Idea Festival
Louisville Public Media
Louisville Beer Store
Southern Comfort
Sonablast Records
Underwired Magazine
LEO Magazine
732 Social
Councilman Tandy’s Office
Creation Gardens
Bargain Supply
Stock Yards Bank
Residence Inn
JEB Advertising
Java Brewing Company
Crushed Ice Events
Action Graphics
Sign-A-Rama
The Pepper Group
Muth’s Candies
Home of the Innocents
Hunt Tractor
Bays Boutique
Gebhardt-Marshall Gallery
Bill Marzian
Bud Simmons
AN Roth

We’ll go over the details and final NuLu Fest budget at our  EMDA meeting:
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
9:30am – 11:00am
St. John’s Church, UCC Parish Hall
637 E Market Street

Be sure to attend our upcoming association meeting on Wednesday, September 9th.  (Please note the location change below.) We will be hosting elections for all East Market District Association officers and board members at this meeting. Please make every effort to attend and participate!

The Nominating Committee will present their recommendations at the meeting, prior to elections. To submit a name for nomination, please contact Bill Marzian, EMDA President as soon as possible. See you soon!

WHEN / WHERE:
The Green Building
732 East Market Street
9:30am – 11:00am

Living ‘green’ just became easier and more attractive with the addition of Louisville’s newest retail store, Hudson Home. Owned by interior designer, Andrew Hudson, the sustainable design studio and boutique features new and vintage furniture that is hand-crafted and American-made.

The furniture and fabric lines available at Hudson Home are new to Louisville and include Cisco Brothers (described as the first furniture design company to create 100% FSC Pure sustainable, upholstered furniture), Custom Furniture & Cabinets (a line that uses salvaged wood from tear-down houses) and Traditions by Pamela Kline (offering bedding and home accessories inspired by vintage fabrics). Hudson Home is one of the few independent design studios, outside of New York City, to feature these lines which are typically carried by high-end retailers such as ABC Home Furnishings in Manhattan.

Hudson Home
806 E. Market
Louisville, KY
hudsonhomeliving.com

801 East Market Street, Corner of Shelby & E. Market