LEXINGTON, Ky. — A 44-acre tract of land at the intersection of I-75/64 and Winchester Road in Southeast Fayette County is set to become a major mixed-use development named Hamburg East.
Cowgill, Inc., a long-time Lexington-based property development and management company, said the new project will include restaurants, hotels, apartments, retail establishments, and green spaces.
The name of the new development is Hamburg East and it is the last corner on the Fayette County interstate system available for development inside the Urban Services area. Hamburg East includes a 41-acre parcel of land acquired from Cowgill, Inc. this past September by the University of Kentucky as the site of a new medical facility offering health care services for Central and Eastern Kentucky.
Both development projects are in a stretch of land along I-75 between Winchester Road (US60) and Man-O-War Boulevard that includes the new Baptist Health facility, Cabela’s, Costco and a new middle school being constructed by the Fayette County Public Schools who have also announced plans for an adjacent elementary school.
Construction on Hamburg East is set to begin immediately.
Cowgill Inc. is a family-owned company founded by Norwood Cowgill, Jr. It has long been one of Lexington’s leading apartment development and management companies. Cowgill owns and manages 15 apartment communities in Lexington with nearly 1,900 units.
The company’s most recently completed projects include studios180 located at 180 North Martin Luther King Boulevard in downtown Lexington and The Flats at 345 on Blackburn Avenue near Fourth Street and the Transylvania University Campus. They currently have an apartment project under construction at 340 Legion Drive adjacent to South Broadway and across from the Lexington Clinic.
According to Joe Brumley, vice president for acquisitions for Cowgill, Inc., the Hamburg East development will prove to make a significant contribution to the quality of life in southeast Fayette County by making lodging, dining, retail outlets and entertainment available to people who live in the area as well as supporting the patients making use of the new UK HealthCare facility.
“The addition of UK HealthCare and Hamburg East will prove to be a major benefit to both that part of the Lexington community as well as for the people of Central and Eastern Kentucky,” Brumley said.
Firms involved in the Hamburg East project include ATS Construction, Davis H. Elliott Co., Design Works and Vision Engineering, all of Lexington, Ky.
