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Four more pieces of the CCR puzzle

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...

216,000 views and counting …

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...

Covington site’s $16.3MM vote of confidence

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...

CCR update: $67.2MM Silverman project to bring apartments, commercial space

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. ...

Heritage Trades academy honored

Posing with the Cincinnati Preservation Association’s award are, from left, Diane McConnell, Director of Workforce Development with the Enzweiler Building Institute; Kaitlin Bryan, the City of Covington’s Regulatory Services Manager & Historic Preservation Specialist; and Brian Miller, President of the Covington Academy of Heritage Trades/Executive Vice President of the Building In...

From spaceship house to 'handsome' TP dispenser

From left, Business Attraction Manager Susan Smith, Zoning Administrator Dan Wood, Administrative Assistant Katie O’Neill, Regulatory Services Manager & Historic Preservation Specialist Kaitlin Bryan, Business Retention & Expansion Manager Patrick Duffy, Infrastructure Development Specialist (and Covington Motor Vehicle Parking Authority Executive Director) Kyle Snyder. Annual awa...

From Lewisburg to Latonia, City helping 6 more small businesses

Herb & Thelma’s Tavern plans to restore the historic electric Wiedemann sign that used to hang on its building. $$$ for façade work, rent subsidies, historic electric sign COVINGTON, Ky. – The latest winners of small business funds from the City of Covington are an eclectic bunch – both in terms of location and use: A shop that will manufacture and sell flavored p...

A neighborly heads up: Concrete to be poured overnight next week at OneNKY Center

COVINGTON, Ky. – Neighbors of the OneNKY Center being built at Greenup Street and Roebling Way may hear trucks earlier than usual on Tuesday. But don’t worry. It’s a special circumstance – not the new normal. Officials from Paul Hemmer Co. said that Tuesday will be the first of three 3 a.m. concrete slab pours timed to beat morning rush hour traffic and to keep the ri...

Come Monday, CCR work moves from deconstruction to construction

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...

New website, signage aim to make parking easier

Covington Motor Vehicle Parking Authority ramps up education as part of strategic approach to help drivers COVINGTON, Ky. – The search for a parking spot in Covington should soon get easier, courtesy of a new website, new directional signs, and new branding for the Covington Motor Vehicle Parking Authority. The signs – which are being mounted at key locations around Covington to ...
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