Editing Shively, Kentucky (section)

===21st century===
The area's fortunes have since improved somewhat, with various public works projects occurring and some businesses moving to the area. However, the area along Seventh Street north of Dixie is still known for its seedy [[adult entertainment]] businesses.<ref>{{cite news|title=Four adult bookstores ordered to clean up|date=November 29, 2005|first=Jason|last=Riley|work=[[The Courier-Journal]]|page=05B}}</ref> Into the 2000s, the area lagged behind eastern and southern Jefferson County, with one of its few remaining large retail centers, the {{convert|150000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} [[Dillard's]] on Dixie Highway (est.&thinsp;1956), closing in 2007 due to slow sales at the location despite the chain's general profitability in the Louisville area.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Courier-Journal]]|date=December 13, 2006|title=Shively Dillard's to close in Feb.; 170 employees offered transfers}}</ref>

Shively remains the site of one major operating distillery: [[Brown-Forman]]'s Early Times distillery. Its products include [[Early Times]], which was first produced in 1860, became one of the few brands that was allowed to be produced during the [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]] era, and was the best-selling whiskey in the country in the mid-1950s. Another is [[Old Forester]]; first produced in 1870, it was the first bourbon sold exclusively in sealed bottles and is today the oldest continually produced brand. The former [[Stitzel-Weller]] distillery has been converted into a tourist attraction for the [[Bulleit Bourbon]] brand, and was included as a stop on the [[Kentucky Bourbon Trail]] in 2014.<ref>[http://www.wdrb.com/story/26537470/louisville-area-gets-its-second-stop-on-the-bourbon-trail Louisville Area Gets its Second Stop on the Bourbon Trail] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093216/http://www.wdrb.com/story/26537470/louisville-area-gets-its-second-stop-on-the-bourbon-trail |date=April 2, 2015 }}, [[WDRB]], September 15, 2014.</ref> As of October 2014, the [[Michter's]] bourbon brand was working on opening a new distillery in Shively.<ref>Mann, David A., [http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2014/10/23/slideshowmichters-gets-new-still-in-shively.html Slideshow: Michter's Gets New Still in Shively] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216105500/http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2014/10/23/slideshowmichters-gets-new-still-in-shively.html |date=February 16, 2015 }}, ''[[Business First of Louisville|Business First]]'', October 23, 2014.</ref> The Bernheim Distillery site, used by [[Heaven Hill Distilleries]], opened in nearby Louisville around 2000.

On November 5, 2018, Democrat Beverly Chester Burton became the first African-American to be elected mayor of Shively.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ashley|first=Phylicia|url=https://www.wave3.com/2018/11/07/shively-elects-first-african-american-woman-mayor/|title=Shively elects first African-American mayor|date=November 7, 2018 |work=[[WAVE (TV)|WAVE]] |access-date=May 18, 2024|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116004128/https://www.wave3.com/2018/11/07/shively-elects-first-african-american-woman-mayor/|url-status=live}}</ref>