The Webb Companies continue to modernize Lexington, building over 5 million square feet ofĬommercial real estate during the decade. Parking garage and 17-story office tower Vine Center. In 1982 they open the 368-room Radisson Plaza Hotel and the adjoining To acquire a full city block located at the corner of Broadway and Vine Street, just steps from They will develop a 300-room hotel to ensure Lexington is not overlooked again. The Webb brothers, both lifelong University of Kentucky Wildcat basketball fans, announce In 1980, the NCAA declines Lexington’sīid to host one of the NCAA basketball tournament rounds due to the lack of hotel rooms. Into a destination for people to visit, work and live. With the success of Firstįederal Plaza, Don and Dudley Webb turn their attention to revitalizing downtown Lexington The next decade brings unprecedented growth to many U.S. Little did they know, this was just the beginning. Theirįirst major project, First Federal Plaza, breaks ground in 1975 on West Vine Street (current Of industrial properties and duplexes, but they soon set their sights on larger projects. They soon begin developing their own projects in Lexington and in 1972, they found The Webb Companies, a consolidation of real estate development, design, finance, legal, construction, marketing, leasing,īrokerage, property management, and ancillary functions. The brothers learn the world of real estate investing and developing. Prominent Lexington businessman and financier. It is during this time, where Don and Dudley Webb begin working with Garvice Kincaid, the Known as Webb, Hoskins, Brown and Thompson. This day with The Webb Companies on real estate projects as a partner in the firm now Hoskins joins the firm in 1979 as a young associate and continues to work closely to Partners over the years including Charles Ward, Pat Sullivan, Time Cone and Jim Lemaster. Offices located in the Bank of Commerce Building. Joins him in Lexington, and together they form the law firm of Webb and Webb in 1971 with Graduation from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1968. Weber and Meyer in Louisville, Dudley Webb opens his own law firm in Lexington upon his While his brother Don was enjoying a successful legal career with the firm of Handmaker, Street in Whitesburg for 115 years where it will continue to be passed down to future generations as a memorial to the family’s Eastern Kentucky heritage. The Webb Companies to this day remains a family-run business headquartered in Starting with a small law practice, they would ultimately diversify and grow their business into one of the largest commercial real estate companies in the U.S., with developments from Washington DC to San Francisco and Boston to The Webb brothers soon left home upon their graduations from Whitesburg High School, but Country life in Eastern Kentucky was idyllic, filled with family, hard work In a little house in Hot Spot owned by the Premium Coal Company where Woodford workedĪs an accountant. Together they raised their four children Donald, Dudley, Debby and Judy Woodford Webb was born in 1915 and went on to marry Elizabeth Combs in 1937. Webb and his wife Sarah Ellen had 10 children, 8 daughters and 2 sons. United States, The Mountain Eagle in 1907. Noted journalist, having founded what is today, one of the longest running newspapers in the Webb, was not only an educator and postmaster in Whitesburg, but also a Kentucky families, has deep ties to the region going back many generations. Mining town of Whitesburg in Letcher County, Kentucky. Dudley Webb grew up in the Appalachian coal
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