Among other things, Covington used funds from this year’s CDBG program to replace the fence around Goebel Pool, shown here.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Reminder: The City of Covington is holding a hearing tonight to get the public’s ideas on how it should spend several million dollars from the federal government destined for services, programs and investments in neighborhoods.
The money...
One of the architect’s renderings of the proposed Lewisburg Thorofare Project on Pike Street.
City to help implement public-private ‘Thorofare Project’
COVINGTON, Ky. - A vote of the Covington City Commission this week formalized what had been unofficially announced the week before:
The first big splash of The RIPPLE Effect will occur in Lewisburg.
A neighborh...
Molly Malone’s Irish Pub in the Roebling Point District is one of the Covington restaurants that sought and received permission to sell alcohol on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, earlier than 9 a.m. this year.
Change allows alcohol earlier on Sundays, with permission
COVINGTON, Ky. - Credit (or blame) one of the world’s most popular saints.
A cyclical and coincidental c...
New federal incentives hold potential for investors in City
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is spreading the word about a new incentive available in the city where investors in economic development projects can reap significant federal tax breaks.
Five different census tracts in Covington have been deemed “Opportunity Zones,” enabling investors to take advantage of...
COVINGTON, Ky. - The next phase of Covington’s efforts to solicit the public’s ideas for the soon-to-be-vacant 23-acre IRS site is banking on two beliefs:
Covington is blessed with smart, interesting, creative, articulate, and engaged people.
Conversation around dinner and drinks is more productive and inviting than it would be in a 200-seat assembly hall or a Facebook co...
The City of Covington wants the public’s help in fundamentally restructuring its approach to zoning, the process by which communities guide physical development of land.
Residents invited to help shape zoning code rewrite
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is inviting the public to four neighborhood open houses over the next two weeks to begin weighing in on “the Z word.&rdqu...
Attendees at the open house for the IRS site’s future check out a map showing traffic counts around the 23-acre Covington complex.
COVINGTON, Ky. - They came dressed in high heels, hiking boots, and clerical collars, and they had plenty of ideas.
“They” were the nearly 200 people who attended the kick-off of the public conversation that Covington has started to discus...
Heavy ice will keep the parking garage at 5th and Main streets in MainStrasse Village closed all weekend.
COVINGTON, Ky. - The garage in MainStrasse Village that has been allowing free parking overnight on a temporary basis will be closed through the weekend because of public safety concerns related to heavy ice.
The garage will eventually serve as the foundation of the RiverHaus multi...
Heavy ice will close the parking garage at 5th and Main streets tonight in MainStrasse Village. Here is the Main Street entrance to the garage, as it looked in November.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Attention visitors to MainStrasse Village: The parking garage at Fifth and Main streets that is part of the partially constructed RiverHaus Apartments complex will not be open tonight.
Frigid temperatu...
COVINGTON, Ky. - For established cities, opportunities like this come along maybe once in their existence: 23 undeveloped acres, one block from a major river, near the heart of downtown.
The City of Covington will soon have that opportunity, and it wants the public’s help.
Next Thursday night, the City and its consultants are kicking off the public conversation on f...