Stellar Snacks opens new facility in west Louisville [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A new pretzel manufacturing facility held its grand opening in the Park Hill neighborhood Friday. 

Officials are calling it the “largest economic development project ever on record for west Louisville.”

Stellar Snacks, the first woman-owned pretzel manufacturer in the U.S., cut the ribbon on a brand new $137 million industrial bakery which will create 350 full-time jobs over the next decade. 

The facility is located at 1391 Dixie Highway in an existing 434,000-square-foot structure. 

Baking ovens are assembled and prepared to start making the various pretzel flavors in the Derby City. The company and city officials celebrated during the ribbon cutting Friday. 

Stellar Snacks was founded by a mother daughter duo in 2019, Elisabeth and Gina Galvin, in Carson City, Nevada and wanted to expand to Louisville. An area in the metro that’s been …