Businessman Thinks Ky. Owes Him More For Property

KEITH LAWRENCE

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — Danny Falloway grew up in the auto salvage business.

His father, Delbert, opened Falloway Auto Parts on Bluff Avenue around 1947, when Danny Falloway was a baby.

In 1980, Falloway moved his family business to a 5- to 6-acre lot at what's now 5820 Kentucky 2830 near Hawesway Truck Plaza.

"I've been in it my whole life," he said Tuesday.

Until last summer, anyway.

That's when the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet took Falloway's land for the U.S. 60 bypass extension.

"We first started hearing rumors about this in '02," his son, Ronnie, who owns Falloway Auto Sales, recalled as he looked over aerial pictures of the property in eastern Daviess County.

The letter from the state came on Christmas Eve 2007, telling him that the state wanted his property, Danny Falloway said.