LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Goodwill Kentucky laid out its intentions to buy the NIA Center on West Broadway from TARC and turn it into 76 affordable housing units.

But the intended good deed has rocked the foundation of business owners like Regina Whitlow who use the NIA Center to serve their communities.

“I have not started looking yet, the shock is still on me,” she said.

She’s had office space in the NIA Center for a decade, been an entrepreneur for three times as long, and has been a hairstylist for half a century.

Rumors of the pending sale had been rumbling for a while, but said this week’s announcement didn’t lessen its impact.

“It’s not about money, it’s also too just building that clientele base. And customers become just like family,” she continued. “I have one client that’s bee

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