New Management Suggested For KFC Yum! Center

{Louisville, Kentucky}...Among the recommendations from a review presented Monday to the Louisville Arena Authority, a new management approach was suggested for KFC Yum! Center in which the building’s employees would no longer be state workers. The move is meant to reduce the “high” salaries and wages of the arena’s Kentucky State Fair Board staff. The arena’s general manager, a position now vacant, should have a greater say in booking events, and arena operators should work more closely with the University of Louisville to bring in more events during basketball season. The authority committee, headed by businessman Dan Ulmer, also will look at bringing in a new arena manager or using authority personnel to run the facility. Ulmer says resolving the arena’s long-term management is a first step toward addressing the findings in consultant Venue Solutions Group’s report.