A conceptual rendering that shows the levee park and public plaza, and how the parcels and buildings are meant to create a neighborhood feel.
New phase begins to reintegrate 23-acre ‘island’
with mix of office, commercial, residential and other uses
COVINGTON, Ky. – The transformation of the 23-acre former IRS site has entered a new phase – the City of Covington is...
Photo 1: Ron Padgett wows the crowd. (Photo by Sam Greenhill)
Photo 3: The Victor J. Canfield Preservation Stewardship Award winners were Jim and Donna Salyers and Guy van Rooyen (left to right, in the white shirts). At far left is Vic Canfield, at far right is Historic Preservation Officer Kaitlin Bryan, and Economic Development Director Tom West is in the back row.
City celebrates Na...
Photo provided by Covcor
City incentive to help keep rent competitive in 146K square feet of space behind Latonia Commerce Center
COVINGTON, Ky. – A $17.6 million building with 146,000 square feet of space will be constructed on land zoned for industrial use behind the Latonia Commerce Center, the first new industrial space in Covington in decades.
The project is a spec build, ...
With the help of a City incentive, Keller Logistics Group is adding a new look (bottom) to the front of the former big-box retail space in Latonia that used to house Value City and Burlington Coat Factory. (Photo provided)
City incentive to help improve façade of old Value City space as new home for Keller Logistics Group
COVINGTON, Ky. – The “Value City” and “Bu...
Info session next week at the library for new Covington Academy of Heritage Trades
COVINGTON, Ky. – The brand-new Covington Academy for Heritage Trades will hold introductory workshops in masonry/plaster and woodworking/windows in April as the City kicks off a workforce initiative focused on training a new generation of homebuilders and rehabbers in careers related to restoring historic b...
Attendees learn how to fix historic windows at the Belvedere School for Hands-On Preservation in Hannibal, Mo., run by preservationist Bob Yapp. Yapp has been working as a consultant to help the City of Covington start its restoration trades program. (Photo used courtesy of Bob Yapp.)
Introductory workshops start next month for ‘trowel’ and ‘wood’ careers
COVING...
A conceptual rendering of the Covington Central Riverfront project.
Firm to help City sub-divide parcels, create marketing strategy
COVINGTON, Ky. – The mostly behind-the-scenes work to prepare the 23-acre former IRS site downtown for private development is continuing on simultaneous fronts.
Even as a team of architects and engineers are immersed in designing the street grid,...
Report card to residents highlights historic deal on bridge, tax cut & progress on job training, IRS site, new City Hall
COVINGTON, Ky. – A construction trades school and its preservation trades complement. A 23-acre development in the urban core. A new City Hall better suited for helping residents. A health sciences lab. Homeownership.
The City of Covington took so many steps...
Virtual ‘fly-through’ video, renderings show proposed ‘look, feel’ of 23-acre’s future in The Cov
COVINGTON, Ky. – The takeaway from a new virtual “fly-through” video is immediately clear: The “look” and “feel” of what’s now a 23-acre blank canvas in downtown Covington will be nothing like the expansive and steri...
Rehab of former boxing gym showcases City’s use of federal funds for housing
COVINGTON, Ky. – In the middle of Covington’s urban core, on its main business thoroughfare, behind the walls of a three-story brick facade, a 1995 article in The Kentucky Post described an upper floor setting that would have surprised most people:
“… dimly lit, with holes in the ...