Over 400 acres of family farmland that surrounds exit 14 in Crestwood will be developed.

Amanda Manning/The Oldham Era From left to right, Clay Jones, Carla Jones and Gant Jones, stand in front of a Clore home that is estimated was built in 1850s. Buy this photo Courtesy of the jones The property the Clore/Jones family owns in Crestwood surrounding exit 14 that is set to be developed. Buy this photo

The Clore family, who has deeps roots in Oldham County dating back to 1808, has plans to create a mixed-use development off of Interstate 71 in Crestwood.

The multi-use development is a large family effort between the Clore and Jones family – including Bob Jones, Carla Jones, Gant Jones, Clay Jones and Lee Clore, among others.

DPZ, a global planning company that designed Norton Commons, among other developments, is in charge of the development’s master plan.

“It is not fair to compare what will happen here to what has happened in Norton Commons, because it is completely different,” Architect Gant Jones, son of Bob and Carla Jones, explained.

Unlike Norton Commons, this farmland sits directly off the exit ramp.

“Here, we don’t have to try to make anything happen, there’s desire without,” Gant Jones said. “Because it’s off the highway, it will have highway uses associated with it.”

The family said that several companies have approached them with offers to develop the farmland over the years, but they wanted to make sure it was the right fit.

“Our focus was always to master plan it all before many pieces were sold off, and pieces may be sold off, but after the master plan is complete,” Builder Clay Jones, son of Bob and Carla Jones, explained.

“We don’t want to sell until we can control the quality of what it is,” Gant Jones added.

DPZ is hosting an invitation-only charrette at CityPlace in La Grange the week of January 13.

Gant Jones described the charrette as an extensive week-long process where public officials and members of the transportation and housing industry come together to help create the master plan and resolve any conflict.

“The result is to successfully develop a quality mixed-use masterpiece that is pedestrian friendly, environmentally conscious and resulting in a unique environment within the Crestwood and greater Oldham County area,” a flier from DPZ about the charrette reads.

“I don’t think there’s ever been a development in Oldham County of any magnitude, commercial, residential, anything that has ever been planned of what we’re hoping to do here,” Clay Jones said.

The master plan, including renderings of commercial and residential projects, will be presented Saturday, January 19 to a select crowd.

Crestwood Commons, a luxury apartment complex, has already been approved on 14 acres of the property. Stephen Edwards, the developer who created the Oldham Oaks apartment complex in La Grange, is also creating this 218-unit complex.

Gant Jones said this development in particular triggered the family to hire someone to create the master plan.

During the apartment complex approval, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet conducted a study on Ky. 329 and reduced the speed limit from 55 mph to 45 mph on a portion of that road.

The family will not bring the development to Oldham County Planning and Zoning until further down the line once the master plan is complete.

“We’re trying to make this as public as possible. We’re inviting opposition, people and groups that have been opposed to other developments because we want their input too to hopefully deter some of that opposition,” Clay Jones said. “Hopefully it’s a group commitment.”

“Hopefully this will start to give an identity to Crestwood, a new face to Crestwood,” Gant Jones said. “Crestwood is going to change.”