Johnetta Roberts

Realtor

johnetta@fortyandone.com

502-299-4806

Johnetta Roberts is a community economic development professional known for her excellent strategic planning and relationship building skills. After a nine year career at a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), she launched the 40 & 1 Company in 2017. The boutique consulting practice specializes in business attraction strategies and real estate development projects primarily in West Louisville. Her mission is to attract amenities and services that the residents in West Louisville deserve.

Career highlights include being a part of the development teams that launched Chef Space Kitchen Incubator which revitalized the former Jay’s Cafeteria site and The Village @ West Jefferson a new 30,000 SF mixed-use project that opened in July 2021 in the historic Russell neighborhood. Currently, she is leading The Bakery project in the California neighborhood that will house community healthy tenants in a 108,000 SF commercial facility.

Roberts earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University, is a Leadership Louisville Bingham Fellows Class of 2014 graduate and an active community volunteer.  A native of Lexington, she is married to Ransford Roberts and they have three children and a 4.7 lbs Yorkie named Ace.