Photo 1: This detail from a conceptual rendering from KZF Design and Hub+Weber Architects suggests how the public art installation (yet to be created) could fit into the space at Third and Russell streets.
Photo 2: Some of the “artifacts” saved from the IRS Flattop complex.
The Carnegie, CGN kick off competition for privately funded sculpture
COVINGTON, Ky. – Done r...
COVINGTON, Ky. – The installation of electric conduit for the Covington Central Riverfront development will affect drivers and pedestrians in the area of Madison Avenue and Third Street on and off over the next seven weeks.
The work will be done in six distinct phases, beginning today and ending the first week of April.
At times, lanes of vehicular traffic will be reduced or even shut ...
Photo 1: What people thought was a preview of the BLINK light show was actually a pseudo-“topping out” ceremony for public infrastructure at the Covington Central Riverfront neighborhood.
Photo 2: And below, the current state of the historically significant but dilapidated Frank Duveneck home.
Photo 3: Breaking ground on a permanent home for City operations.
Photo 4: Bray...
Drone practice on Monday, as seen from the Clive the Alien installation on Scott Boulevard. And the City's partners in both the CCR site and the topping-out ceremony.
Tonight’s ‘Topping Out Ceremony’ at CCR signals ‘galactic new heights’
COVINGTON, Ky. – The salutation read: “Greetings, Earthlings.” The invitation – to an event steepe...
City seeking developers for hotel, other uses; subdivided parcels provide opportunities to local firms
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington is looking for private developers to fill in four more pieces of its 23-acre blank canvas just west of downtown.
Requests for proposals (RFPs) have been released for Blocks C, D, E, and K for the new neighborhood-to-be now known as the Covin...
A screenshot from Streetcraft’s video, which is linked to in the article below.
Third-party video on CCR site gains international attention
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s CCR project has gone global.
A media group’s 12-minute YouTube video outlining the City’s vision for the transformation of the 23-acre downtown site has gained 216,000 views from around the wo...
This photo, used courtesy of Bray Construction Services, shows Bray building Phase 1 of the public infrastructure on the 23-acre site.
Federal RAISE grant to fund streetscape, transportation connections at CCR
COVINGTON, Ky. – From the beginning, the City of Covington has proclaimed that its transformation of the 23-acre former IRS site near the Ohio River would create more than j...
This massing model is NOT a rendering. But it gives a conceptual illustration of how the individual project would look in relation to itself and how it would fit in with the surrounding area.
Expected $228K a year tax gain will fund services in the rest of Covington
COVINGTON, Ky. – The pieces of the 23-acre Covington Central Riverfront neighborhood continue to fall into place.
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Bray to build site’s infrastructure; Drees to follow with first homes
COVINGTON, Ky. – Less than two years after an O’Rourke Wrecking excavator punched the first hole in the sprawling IRS “Flat Top” complex, the City of Covington has announced two milestones in the pending transformation of what is now a cleared field into a 23-acre mixed-used neighborhood ful...
Conceptual renderings of the Covington Central Riverfront site from the City’s master plan show “Block G,” where the law school and medical school would sit. Note these are NOT renderings of the future complex.
Senate unveils $150M proposal to make former IRS site the new home of Chase law school, UK med school
COVINGTON, Ky. – One magazine cover story labeled it...