Louisville Urban League Opens Entrepreneur Plaza

LOUISVILLE – As part of celebrating August being National Black Business Month, the Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY) has opened a new space for entrepreneurs.

PNC Entrepreneurship Plaza, located at the Norton Healthcare Sports and Learning Center, will be a place where Black entrepreneurs can advertise their services and products to those visiting the location, which contains indoor and outdoor spaces for pop-ups.

This development has come from a $1 million dollar grant from the PNC Foundation, which is a part of the Foundation’s $88 billion Community Benefits Plan, which hopes to support the economic empowerment of Black and low-income communities. The grant, announced in August of last year, supports the Urban League in its mission to empower communities of color strive for economic equality.

Black entrepreneurs will certainly benefit from the Plaza’s location at the sports complex, which hosts events such as the 2023 ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships. Reports say that opportunities such as these, which can generate $2.2 million for the region, will stay in the local community.

Sadiqa Reynolds, President and CEO of the Urban League, said, “When we build the Sports and Learning Campus, we spent more money with Black-owned businesses than any capital project we can find in Kentucky. The PNC collaboration is another example of being intentionally inclusive – making certain that Black residents and Black businesses benefit from the economic magnet we have created in the west end.”

Business owners and entrepreneurs can reach out to the Urban League to get involved.

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