Page 136 of Kentucky's 2026–2028 Biennial Highway Construction Plan has a row for Oldham County item 80005: "Improve the interchange of I 71 and KY 329." It has money in three phases. Design gets $430,000 in fiscal 2026, right-of-way gets $1.16 million in fiscal 2027, and utilities get $1.05 million in fiscal 2028. The construction row underneath is empty.
That interchange is Exit 14, the Crestwood exit that Clore Station is built around. WDRB+WAVE reported on Oct. 28, 2026 that thousands of homes and apartments will start going up there in December. The project is a $2.5 billion, roughly 500-acre development that its developers describe as a Norton Commons-style community.
Anyone deciding whether to buy at or near Clore Station is really deciding how long they are willing to wait for each piece of the plan. The homes come first and have a date. The interchange, the hospital and the town center each depend on a different decision-maker, and none of them is the developer.
One Master Plan, Several Separate Clocks
Each major piece of Clore Station is its own project, controlled by different people and paid for from a different source.
| Piece of the plan | Who controls the timing | Latest dated fact |
|---|---|---|
| Phase One homes and lots | The developer and its builders | Construction expected to start December 2026; about three years to complete |
| Phases Two and Three | The developer, then county review | Still being designed as of October 2026 |
| Exit 14 interchange | Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the state budget | Funded through utilities in fiscal 2028; no construction line |
| I-71 widening, KY-329 to KY-393 | Kentucky Transportation Cabinet | Tentative 2027/2028 roadway construction, subject to right-of-way and funding |
| Baptist Health hospital campus | Baptist Health and the approval it named | Announced May 2022 as conditional on approval |
| 50,000-square-foot arts center | Oldham County Arts Center | Land donated by the developers |
Only the first row runs on the developer's own schedule. The rest of the table explains why buying in Phase One gets you the homes long before it gets you the plan.
Phase One Is Small, and It Has the Only Firm Date
According to WDRB's Oct. 14 report, which draws on Louisville Business First, the first phase covers 25 acres with 160 residential and commercial lots and should take about three years. Clore Station is planned at about 3,000 residential units and could take more than 10 phases and 20 to 30 years to finish. The next two phases, which add more housing, businesses and a senior living facility, were still being designed in mid-October.
Twenty-five acres is about 5 percent of the land. Developer Gant Jones told WDRB this first section will include several housing types, mixed-use commercial buildings and live-work buildings, so Phase One is meant to feel like a small town center from the start. The project's own plans page lists single-family homes, mews, mansion apartments, townhouses, live/work and mixed-use/commercial as Phase One options. Single-family homes are two stories, 1,500 to 4,000 square feet, on 36-by-100-foot or 40-by-80-foot lots.
Those lot sizes matter to anyone comparing Clore Station with the rest of Crestwood, where homes usually sit on larger, more spread-out lots. Smaller lots are what make the walkable format possible. Clore Station plans to keep about a third of the full development as green space. That green space is spread across 500 acres and decades of phases, so its share of the first 25 acres is a separate question.
When the Oldham County Planning Commission approved the zoning map amendment, master plan maps and master plan code by an 11–0 vote, the Oldham Era reported that construction was expected to begin in 2025 or 2026. December 2026 falls at the late end of that range.
The Interchange Has a Budget Line but No Construction Money
In the same WDRB interview, Jones said the Exit 14 interchange is scheduled to change in the next few years, with eight lanes underneath and a new interchange. He also described traffic control as the state's decision: "Out here, we'll either have signal or roundabouts dictated by the state."
The state's plan shows how far that work has progressed. Item 80005 is funded through design, right-of-way and utilities, which add up to $2.64 million across fiscal 2026 to 2028, and has no construction money in this budget. Its description carries notes from the 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024 plans, which means the interchange has been carried forward from one state highway plan to the next since 2018.
A nearby item on the same page is a turn lane on the KY-329 bypass at Dovefield Drive. It gets $200,000 for design in fiscal 2026 and $600,000 for construction in fiscal 2028. Of the two items on the KY-329 corridor, the turn lane is the one with construction money attached.
The I-71 widening is a separate project. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's District 5 page for project 05-483.10, last updated Aug. 6, 2026, covers widening I-71 from four to six lanes between KY-329 and KY-393. It gives a tentative 2027/2028 window for roadway construction, depending on right-of-way and available funding.
Traffic from each new phase will be reviewed as that phase comes up. At the planning commission hearing, Clore Station attorney John Talbot answered nearby residents' traffic concerns this way, as the Oldham Era reported:
"What's important is that when we come forward with the phases for each part of project, we will run a new traffic study. And if there are road improvements that need to be done that are attributed to our development, we will have to address that."
Planning Director Jim Urban said at the same hearing that each phase goes back to the Technical Review Committee. Road improvements will therefore come one phase at a time as traffic grows, which is how Jones put it to WDRB: "As this starts to grow, the infrastructure responds. So it's in due time."
For a household in Phase One, the Exit 14 they use from 2027 to 2029 will most likely be close to the exit they use today, carrying a growing amount of construction traffic.
The Hospital Depends on Baptist Health
A hospital changed the shape of this project. The Oldham Era reported that the master plan, under development since 2019, was redrawn after Baptist Health approached the Clore and Jones families about a next-generation hospital and "healthcare village" off Exit 14. The hospital parcel has its own building, site and street standards.
Baptist Health's announcement, dated May 11, 2022, described an inpatient and surgical hospital with an outpatient campus. It said the construction schedule was still being developed and made the project conditional on approval. The early concept was a 90-bed hospital with a $250 million target investment, and Baptist's strategy officer said that figure would change as plans developed. Baptist said the new campus would handle higher levels of care, while Baptist Health La Grange would shift toward more outpatient services.
The hospital's timing therefore sits with Baptist Health and the approval its announcement named. Clore Station's construction schedule does not decide it.
The arts center works the same way. WDRB reported that the developers donated land for a 50,000-square-foot center for visual arts, music, dance and drama after the Oldham County Arts Center expressed interest in joining the project. The developers supplied the land. The arts center itself is the Arts Center's project to build.
Norton Commons Shows How Long the Wait Can Be
Clore Station's planners have done this before nearby. DPZ, the firm that planned Norton Commons in Prospect, had been hired by the Clore family to map out Clore Station by 2018. Jones has said Clore Station is not a copy of Norton Commons, but the two share a planner and a walkable format. Here is how Norton Commons grew:
- 1997. DPZ designs a 600-acre plan for 979 units and 300,000 square feet of retail.
- About 2005. First residents move in, based on the 10th-anniversary date in a 2015 Louisville Business First story.
- About 2007. Karem's Grill & Pub opens as the first restaurant and only the second business, as owner Louie Karem told the Courier Journal in 2014.
- June 2012. A CNU account describes a grocery store open, with a church and the YMCA still under construction.
- September 2020. WLKY reports more than 70 businesses, with almost a dozen more expected by the end of October.
DPZ says Norton Commons largely ignored the recession, so this timeline reflects a project that went well. Even so, about two years passed between the first residents and the first restaurant. About seven years passed before the grocery store was open and the YMCA was going up. It took about 15 years to reach a town center with more than 70 businesses.
Measured from 2018, Clore Station's first homes are arriving about eight years later. Norton Commons took about eight years to get from its 1997 plan to its first residents, so the two projects are moving at a similar pace so far. If that pace continues, the Phase One commercial lots will fill up over several years after the first homes, and the hospital, grocery and arts center will follow on their own schedules.
Questions Before You Pay for a Promise
For buyers weighing a Phase One home or a resale nearby, these questions have concrete answers:
- Which lot, in which phase? Phase One is 160 lots on 25 acres. Later phases are still being designed.
- Which builder? Clore Station lists a 15-member builders guild, so contracts, schedules and specs can differ from one builder to another.
- Which amenities are in your phase, and which are planned for later? The Phase One commercial and live-work buildings are part of the first section. The hospital, grocery store, arts center and senior living are planned for the larger project.
- Which road changes are funded for construction? In the 2026–2028 state highway plan, the Dovefield Drive turn lane has construction money and the Exit 14 interchange does not.
These questions apply to nearby owners too, since the construction is already visible. In WDRB's Oct. 28 report, neighbors described a road being moved, a detour, and mud getting on their cars.
Quick Answers
When does construction start at Clore Station? Developers expect the first phase to start in December 2026 and take about three years.
Is Clore Station in Crestwood? Yes. WDRB places it in Crestwood, off the KY-329 bypass. The rezoning covered parcels along Highway 329 and Veterans' Memorial Parkway on both sides of I-71.
How long will the whole development take? Developers told Louisville Business First that it could take 20 to 30 years and more than 10 phases.
If you own a home near Exit 14 and want to see how Clore Station's timeline affects your home's value now, our team at Dee Amber Homes can walk you through it. Request a Complimentary Home Valuation, and we will look at your home alongside what is actually dated at Clore Station.
