2010 WEG selects Official Commercial Real Estate Company
Posted by Jennifer Karlen on
According to the Lexington Herald Leader newspaper, the World Games
2010 Foundation, Inc. has selected Fortune Commercial Properties
located in Lexington Kentucky as the official commercial real estate
company for the 2010 WEG.
Their company will be providing 10,000 sq.ft. of warehousing space along with 6,000 sq.ft. of office space for the World Games 2010 Foundation - as well as an undisclosed financial contribution to the 2010 World Equestrian Games.
The use of this space is expected to be primarily for storage as well as an operations center for the projected approximately 6,000 WEG volunteers that will be there helping out during the event.
Congratulations to Fortune Commercial Properties for the honor and contributions to this equestrian event!
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Well, its official: the proposed Kentucky Horse Park hotel is dead - at least for now. For those that read the earlier Kentucky Horse Park Hotel
article, you will recall the hotel was being funded primarily through
the sale of bonds. Those bonds needed to be sold before an April 15
2008 deadline, to ensure that the proposed KY horse park hotel would be
completed in time for the 2010 World Equestrian Games. [Officials at
the horse park do NOT want any construction taking place at the horse
park during the 2010 WEG.]
Here’s a little snippet that should be of interest to some of our readers:
The Lexington Herald Leader newspaper, published an article about 70
horses that were recently rescued from a Kentucky horse farm in
Jessamine County KY. The horses were found to be malnourished and in
poor condition. Most of the animals at the horse farm were Tennessee
Walking Horses. The KY horse farm is located in Jessamine County,
approximately 6 miles south of Nicholasville KY on the far end of
Hunters Ferry Road.
Just an update for those that have been following the proposed
Kentucky Horse Park hotel: According to the Finance and Administration
Cabinet in Kentucky, no bonds have been sold for the proposed
equestrian hotel. And if the bonds aren’t sold by April 15, 2008,
there will be insufficient time to get the hotel finished in time for
the World Equestrian Games in 2010 to be held at the KY horse park.
[Park officials do not want construction going on at the facility while
the 2010 WEG is going on.]
As we’ve noted recently, many horse farms in Kentucky are feeling
the pinch right now trying to take care of their horses. Hay prices are
way up. And the ground has been extremely muddy, so this has resulted
in horse farms needing to use more hay to supplement the feeding of
their horses. Add in the ban on horse slaughter, and this has resulted
in some owners that have been unable to care for their horses, in
either just not feeding their horses sufficiently, or just turning them
loose to fend for themselves.
The Lexington Kentucky newspaper The Lexington Herald Leader wrote
recently that the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games has selected
a Lexington Kentucky group as the official farriers for the event. The
group selected was the American Farriers Association.
How would you like to ride in the 2010 World Equestrian Games? If
the first lady of Kentucky, Jane Beshear, has her way, 120 lucky horse
back riders could potentially get their chance.
Finally, after a fairly grueling year between the drought last
summer, and the tremendous amount of rains this winter, the Kentucky
government officials have unveiled a plan to help Kentucky farms. The
plan is called Kentucky Agricultural Relief Effort and will give $8.15
million to Kentucky farms that were damaged last year. Many farms
beyond just KY horse farms have been affected. A little known fact is
that while the largest Kentucky farms product is horses, Kentucky is
also the largest cattle/beef producer east of the Mississippi River. We
even are in the top 5 for goat production in the United States.
It was recently announced that in preparation for the 2010 World
Equestrian Games to be held in Lexington Kentucky, that the organizers
of the event are soliciting persons that speak multiple languages to
help with the event. The 4 main languages expected for the event are:
English, German, French, and Spanish