The Elizabethtown Hardin County Industrial Foundation is looking to the future, but as it does so it is exploring part of the past.
The foundation is asking for proposals for the restoration of the historic Hazel Hill House, which came under foundation ownership as part of its acquisition of 140 acres along Gaither Station Road.
EHCIF President and COO Andy Games said the foundation’s goal for the overall property is expanding industrial development.
“We’ve got two lots left over here at the T.J. Patterson/West Park Road, so that piece of property, along with property that we purchased about two years ago, has given us about 150 acres there at Ring Road/Western Kentucky Parkway,” Games said. “That’s our next area of industrial development, if we find somebody to locate.”
Games said the foundation isn’t itself in the preservation business, but recognizing the history of the property they want to hear from an entity that is.
“Our release of this RFP is to just see what is out there and forms of proposals, if it’s something that we would consider,” Games said. “We may proceed a little further down the road with something.”
The foundation says the home was originally built in 1832, one of the first brick homes in Hardin County.
Proposals will be accepted until March 15. Email Games at andy@ehcif.org or contact the foundation for more information.
