Bullitt County commercial real estate is the north end of Kentucky’s I-65 corridor: the stretch between the Jefferson County line and the Hardin County line where Louisville’s distribution market spills south into Shepherdsville, Brooks and Lebanon Junction. If you are a logistics user, a flex tenant, a retailer or an investor scoping the corridor, this guide walks the county exit by exit, covers where the industrial and retail activity sits, and points you to the offices that hold the records and make the zoning calls.
Why Bullitt County sits on Kentucky’s logistics map
The short answer is position. Bullitt County sits directly south of Louisville on I-65, with the Gene Snyder Freeway (I-265) interchange just over the county line at Exit 125. A Shepherdsville building is a short drive from the Louisville metro’s labor pool, and national users keep choosing it.
The public record backs it up. In November 2023 the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development announced the ribbon cutting for UPS Supply Chain Solutions’ Velocity facility in Shepherdsville, a $79 million project with 500 new jobs. In April 2023 the state announced Rivian’s $10 million plan to upgrade an existing 326,000-square-foot facility in Shepherdsville into a remanufacturing operation with 218 full-time jobs. In 2018 Walmart announced an e-commerce fulfillment center in a 720,000-square-foot building at the Velocity 65 Trade Center, which it said would create 400 full-time jobs.
The people are coming too. The U.S. Census counted 61,236 residents in Bullitt County in 2000, 74,319 in 2010 and 82,217 in 2020, and the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate puts the county at 86,454. That is a growing workforce and a growing rooftop count, which matters to industrial users and retailers alike.
The I-65 interchanges from Brooks to Clermont
Bullitt County has six I-65 exits, and each one does a different job. Going north to south:
- Exit 121, Brooks (KY 1526). The first Bullitt County exit south of Louisville. Hotels, fuel and quick service cluster here, with industrial users on the roads behind them.
- Exit 117, Shepherdsville (KY 44). The county seat’s main exit, with KY 44 running into downtown Shepherdsville to the west and on to Mount Washington to the east. This is the busiest retail and service node in the county.
- Exit 116, Cedar Grove (KY 480). KY 480, Cedar Grove Road, connects to KY 61 and serves the Cedar Grove Business Park, the county’s best-known distribution address.
- Exit 114 (KY 3538, Ohm Drive). The newest interchange, opened March 1, 2021, connecting to KY 61 and opening more land on Shepherdsville’s south side to truck traffic.
- Exit 112, Clermont (KY 245). The road to Bardstown, the Jim Beam distillery and Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.
- Exit 105, Lebanon Junction (KY 61). The southern gateway, close to the Hardin County line.
For a site-by-site read on what makes an exit work for industrial land, see our I-65 industrial land exit guide. Before you commit to a retail pad at any of these interchanges, pull the current KYTC traffic counts for the road in front of it; our guide to Kentucky traffic counts for commercial property shows how to find and read them.
Industrial and flex space: what is available
Most of the county’s big-box industrial sits between Exit 116 and Exit 121, with Cedar Grove Business Park at the center. When Dermody Properties broke ground there on its 546,000-square-foot LogistiCenter at 480 in 2016, it listed users in the park including Amazon, Best Buy, Clorox, eBay, Gordon Foods, UPS and Zappos. Omega Parkway and Park Loop Road addresses show up on most bulk distribution searches in the county.
What is available changes month to month, so we do not print a vacancy list here. What we can tell you is what drives the numbers. Big-box rents and sale prices follow clear height, dock count, trailer parking, truck court depth and drive time to the interchange, and they move with how much new speculative space is delivering in the Louisville market at the time. Flex and small-bay space, roughly 5,000 to 30,000 square feet with some office, is a thinner slice of the inventory, and contractors and service users often compete for it with smaller distributors. If that is your size range, expect to look at older buildings and owner-user sales as well as leases.
Investors should read the county as part of the Louisville industrial market. Our last-mile logistics investment guide covers how tenants, lease terms and location drive value in this kind of building.
Retail and service corridors: KY 44, KY 61 and KY 480
Bullitt County retail follows three roads.
KY 44 is the main street of the county. It runs from downtown Shepherdsville through the Exit 117 interchange and east toward Mount Washington, and it carries the grocery, restaurant, bank and service uses that serve the county’s rooftops. Pads near the interchange compete for fuel, quick service and hotel users; frontage closer to the neighborhoods suits medical, service and local retail.
KY 61, Preston Highway, is the old north-south route. It runs from the Jefferson County line down through Shepherdsville to Lebanon Junction, parallel to I-65, and it carries a mix of older strip retail, auto, contractor and service uses. It is where value-add buyers tend to look.
KY 480, Cedar Grove Road, serves the industrial employment base at Exit 116, which brings daytime traffic for fuel, food and convenience uses.
On any of these roads, price follows frontage, access, visibility from the interchange and the count on the road. A new or changed entrance onto a state route needs a KYTC encroachment permit, and that permit can limit a pad to right-in, right-out.
Lebanon Junction and Mount Washington
Lebanon Junction, at Exit 105, is the southern end of the county and the closest Bullitt County exit to Hardin County. Industrial land and new buildings have been marketed off KY 61 and Plaza Park Boulevard, and the exit gives users an I-65 address a little farther from Louisville. If you are weighing Lebanon Junction against Elizabethtown or Radcliff, our Hardin County commercial real estate market report covers the next corridor south.
Mount Washington, east of Shepherdsville on KY 44, is mostly a rooftop story. It is a residential city whose retail serves the households around it and commuters heading toward Louisville. Neighborhood retail, medical office and service users look here; distribution users generally do not.
At the other end of the county, Clermont is defined by Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, which describes itself as more than 16,000 acres of forest. That conserved land, along with the distillery traffic on KY 245, makes Exit 112 more of a hospitality and tourism stop than an industrial one.
Zoning and permits: who regulates what
Zoning in Bullitt County runs through the Bullitt County Joint Planning Commission and the Joint Board of Adjustments. The county’s Planning and Zoning office, on the third floor of the Nina Mooney Courthouse Annex at 149 North Walnut Street in Shepherdsville, is the administrative office for both. It processes rezoning requests, subdivision review, variances and conditional use permits, reviews site plans, and gives floodplain determinations for the unincorporated county. Confirm with that office whether a parcel inside a city falls under the joint commission before you file anything.
Building, electrical and HVAC permits come from the county’s Department of Building and Safety. Under the county’s stormwater rules, construction that disturbs more than one acre needs an erosion and sediment control permit, which covers most commercial sites.
For parcel research, start with the Bullitt County PVA for assessed values, owners and maps, and the Bullitt County Sheriff’s TaxViewer for the current tax bill on a single parcel. Deeds are recorded with the Bullitt County Clerk. If you own land near one of these exits and are thinking about a sale, our guide on how to sell commercial land in Kentucky covers rezoning, pricing and the buyer’s checklist.
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