Business & Development

News about business and development in downtown Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Walker's Tonsorial Parlor will eventually have four barber's chairs in the former boutique building that is undergoing renovations. For now, owner Jason Walker is using a section in the rear of the building. Customers will use the entrance on 11th Street.
Owners Desaepa Vansauwa and Zirconia Alleyne will continue catering and serving from their tent while looking for other options to equip a new food trailer.
Hoptown Chronicle, recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3), will receive a contribution from Hopkinsville Brewing Co. based on the brewery's July gross sales.
One improvement project on East Sixth Street is moving ahead and will create new free parking downtown, but another project in the same block has been delayed indefinitely out of concerns about the potential for loitering and vagrancy.
Owners Desaepa Vansauwa and Zirconia Alleyne are seeking backers to help equip a new food trailer.
A new owner has added a pavilion behind the liquor store and sells barbecue from a food truck on the property.
A fire that broke out late Thursday at Ferrell’s won’t mean the end of the tiny restaurant that’s been serving cheeseburgers and chili on Main Street since 1936.
Ferrell's Hamburgers Hopkinsville sign
The small Main Street restaurant has been a fixture of downtown Hopkinsville since 1936.
The elevator for the three-story building that previously housed J.C. Penney apparently had not been used in decades.
Volunteers cleaned out plant beds, set new flowers and added mulch in the Adopt-A-Spot location at Ninth and Main streets.
Studio 3 was launched in May by three partners, Angie Gibbs, Carolyn Altman and Tina Rogers.
Proceeds from the book nook are being donated to youth programming at the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library.