{"id":4733,"date":"2024-09-10T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2024-09-13T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T14:00:06","slug":"meet-the-louisville-downtown-partnership-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/news\/meet-the-louisville-downtown-partnership-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Louisville Downtown Partnership Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"Page-subHeadline\">From picking up litter to offering a helping hand, there\u2019s always a friendly face nearby.<\/h3>\n<h4>September 4, 2024 |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/6amcity.com\/author\/jmilby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Jeff Milby<\/a>\u00a0| Shared from <a href=\"https:\/\/loutoday.6amcity.com\/city\/louisville-downtown-partnership-ambassadors-louisville-ky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lou Today<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>You can always go\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zx06XNfDvk0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">downtown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/louisvilledowntown.org\/ambassadors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Louisville Downtown Partnership Ambassador Program<\/a>\u00a0annually cleans ~120,000 pounds of litter from the 25+ miles of downtown Louisville sidewalk,\u00a0<i>but that\u2019s not\u00a0<\/i><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=30qyFFYCfIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">all they do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re ever downtown and in need of a helping hand, the Ambassador Program is almost always around \u2014\u00a0<i>just look for the orange shirts.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a snapshot of the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Began serving downtown Louisville in 1995<\/li>\n<li>Provides hospitality assistance for over 9,300 downtown visitors each year<\/li>\n<li>Annually remove ~1,500 graffiti tags + stickers<\/li>\n<li>Sidewalk power washing<\/li>\n<li>Weed removal from downtown spaces<\/li>\n<li>Hang signage and banners,\u00a0<i>including over 500 for the Kentucky Derby alone<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you ever need some help \u2014\u00a0<i>think:\u00a0<\/i>you need directions, you\u2019ve spotted some litter that needs attention, or if you would like someone to escort you to your car \u2014 call the Ambassador Hotline at 502-664-8654 daily, from 7 a.m. to 12 a.m.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4734\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4734\" class=\"wp-image-4734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/LDP_Ambassador-with-Pressure-Washer.webp\" alt=\"A man in an orange shirt holds a pressure washer in front of an LDP branded van.\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/LDP_Ambassador-with-Pressure-Washer.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/LDP_Ambassador-with-Pressure-Washer-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Louisville Downtown Partnership Ambassadors program expanded to include 36 ambassadors in 2023. | Photo courtesy Louisville Downtown Partnership<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From picking up litter to offering a helping hand, there\u2019s always a friendly face nearby. September 4, 2024 |\u00a0Jeff Milby\u00a0| Shared from Lou Today You can always go\u00a0downtown. The\u00a0Louisville Downtown Partnership Ambassador Program\u00a0annually cleans ~120,000 pounds of litter from the 25+ miles of downtown Louisville sidewalk,\u00a0but that\u2019s not\u00a0all they do. If you\u2019re ever downtown and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/news\/meet-the-louisville-downtown-partnership-ambassadors\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4750,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blockbyblock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}