Some of the nearly 100 small businesses the City has supported through its rent subsidy and façade improvement programs over the last few years …
Award recognizes The Cov’s success, innovation, and creativity
COVINGTON, Ky. – City officials from Louisiana to Ohio have reached out to Covington over the last few years with hopes of emulating a program that since 2017 has sup...
Work to include addressing environmental challenges on 23 acres slated for massive mixed-use development
COVINGTON, Ky. – The behind-the-scenes work on developing the 23-acre former IRS site should grow substantially more visible early in the new year.
The City of Covington today released a request for proposals seeking companies to both demolish the site and address its significant en...
Small-business “coach” Lisa Brann works out of an office on Pike Street to help businesses in Covington and elsewhere.
‘Coach’ doles out help as needed from Pike St. office
COVINGTON, Ky. – When businesses and entrepreneurs in Covington need assistance – whether that’s fleshing out a business plan, finding resources, navigating the red tape of pandem...
New sidewalks and updated storefronts are among the changes made to the bend of Pike Street near Montague Street as part of the City’s first The RIPPLE Effect proposal that started at Herb & Thelma’s Tavern.
Partnership spurs street improvements, new business
(Part 2 of 2: The RIPPLE Effect program was created in fall 2018 to coordinate public and private investments and ener...
The inside of the sprawling former IRS facility.
J.S. Held to oversee complex preparation of 23 acres for private development
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington is hiring a global multi-disciplinary consulting firm to oversee the complex and time-intensive work of preparing the 23-acre former IRS site for private development.
J.S. Held is a familiar name.
The company has performed or is ...
Friday event seeks ideas on Clay Wade Bailey gateway
COVINGTON, Ky. – Every welcoming home maintains an inviting entry point … an attractive “front door,” so to speak, that beckons visitors to cross its threshold.
“Welcoming” cities are not any different.
That’s why the City of Covington is starting a public conversation about how to improve one ...
Exterior improvements at 106 E. Fourth St. will include new signage and a mural for Garden Grove Organics.
Façade $$$ recipients: horticulture, counseling, pediatrics
& med spa
COVINGTON, Ky. – It’s good business to put a good “face” on your business.
To that point, the Covington Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved exte...
The turnout and the engagement were lively at the first “Cookouts and Conversations” economic development “activation event” in Austinburg last week, so much so that a second all-day event occurs Friday.
Friday event adds free photos, movie to economic activation effort
COVINGTON, Ky. – Both the turnout and the discussion at the first “cookouts and c...
Thursday event part of effort to ‘activate’ eastern half of city
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City’s economic development team is packing up and moving its operations to Austinburg Neighborhood Park on Thursday for a cookout and conversations it hopes lead to something big: Increased business activity, jobs, and local investment in an area it calls “the Eastern C...
The floorplan at 1730 Russell St. is currently very open. (Photo from Hub+Weber Architects)
Russell St. rehab also paves way for Rumpke HQ
COVINGTON, Ky. – The job of turning vacant warehouse-like space on Russell Street into the new home for Covington’s Public Works Department is being turned over to Radius Construction.
In a specially called meeting this afternoon, the...