Louisville Riverport Authority has been a centerpiece of economic growth and development in Louisville, Kentucky for over three decades. With a second-to-none location, multiple transportation options, and access to a ready, skilled workforce, Riverport is the ideal place for businesses to grow.
Riverport features multiple transportation options making us one of the most accessible industrial parks in the nation. Low cost of logistics, low utility rates, and access to a skilled workforce give our companies an edge over the competition.
Riverport is home to over 120 companies employing more than 6,500 people. Large and small, foreign and domestic, manufacturing to logistics, companies find long-term success in Riverport. Click below for a list of existing companies.
Riverport has developed over 2,000 acres of industrial and commercial real estate in Louisville and continues to offer great opportunities for investment today. Click below for information on available parcels as well as buildings available for sale or lease.
Riverport’s Phase 5 is our newest addition along US-31W. Just minutes south of I-265, Phase 5 features 164 acres of cleared, industrial land ready for development.
Riverport is the top industrial location within Louisville, which itself is the regional economic hub for manufacturing and logistics. We are strategically located at a crossroads of road, rail, river, and just minutes from the end of runway service.
Port includes cargo dock, barge fleeting area and ground storage.
Abundant and inexpensive water, electric, and natural gas.
U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone
Location
Accessible to a skilled, available workforce including public transportation for employees.
Minutes from UPS Worldport at Louisville International Airport.
Louisville Riverport News
Dr. Omar Ayyash, President of World Trade Center – KY discusses Jefferson Riverport International and Foreign-Trade Zone #29 with LRA Vice President Miguel Zamora
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Riverport Phase V celebrates first business grand opening – PACCAR Parts Distribution Center
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Louisville Riverport Authority Applies To Include South Central Kentucky In Foreign-Trade Zone #29 Service Area
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New-to-Louisville manufacturer opening Riverport facility this month
“ Riverport provided us with everything we needed – room to grow, an experienced and skilled workforce and proximity to major highways. The support of the Riverport Authority was key to our deciding to relocate our manufacturing operation here in 2009.
Gary A. Smith, Sr. President & CEO Kentucky Trailer
“ Riverport has been a progressive place to grow businesses the last 30 years, and continues to be a world-class location for more than 100 companies. You can do it all here… Live. Work. Create. Innovate. Louisville is the place to be.
Greg Fischer, Louisville Mayor
“ The networking and synergy among companies are important advantages at Riverport, in addition to the great location, good real estate values and competitive utility rates.
Steve Miller became Executive Director of the Louisville Jefferson County Riverport Authority in August 2024. Throughout his career, he has held essential roles in public policy, politics, and non-profit organizations at the national, state, and local levels.
For 17 years, Steve was CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a national non-profit association, and its predecessor organizations in Washington, DC. ACCCE was comprised of major railroads, utilities, coal producers, barge companies, and businesses that support the coal-based electricity industry. Its mission was to promote the use of coal in providing affordable, reliable electricity and advocate for investments in advanced clean coal technologies. During his tenure, Steve built ACCCE from an organization focused on government relations in fewer than ten states to an expanded scope in more than 30 states, federal government relations, and a national communications campaign. Under his leadership, the annual budget grew from $3m to $52m. In 2009, the American Association of Political Consultants recognized ACCCE as the national “Public Issue Grand Marketer of the Year” for its integrated communications campaign, consisting of paid, social, and earned media, and a grassroots citizen army.
Steve has embraced leadership roles in electoral politics. He was a prominent staff member in Brereton Jones’ winning campaigns for Kentucky Lt. Governor (1987) and Governor (1991). He was the 1992 Kentucky Organizational Chairman of the Clinton for President Campaign and worked for the campaign’s media consultants to develop paid media strategies across the nation.
Steve is committed to building a better community, serving as Finance Committee Chair of the Transit Authority of River City (TARC) Board and as Strategic Advisor for Economic Development to Louisville Mayor Greenberg. In the latter role, he helped create Growing Louisville Together, the city’s first comprehensive economic development strategic plan in more than a decade, and establish the Louisville Economic Development Alliance (LEDA), the city’s new private-public partnership.
He is a University of Kentucky and UK School of Law graduate where he was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honorary organization. He has the rare distinction of playing two years on scholarship for the University of Louisville baseball team and holding two degrees from the University of Kentucky.
Steve has visited more than 25 other countries, the 50 states, and each of Kentucky’s 120 counties. He is an avid sports fan, inspired by writing to Alabama football coach Bear Bryant for the first time when he was nine years old. He is a lifelong learner, currently focusing on generative artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. He lives in Louisville with his wife, Pat. They have two sons, Blake and Clarke.
