Rooted Yoga moved its studio to a new home on West Pike Street in October. To help its small businesses grow, Covington has created a new low-cost loan program.
New loan program to help small businesses grow
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington has a new $4 million loan program that greatly improves its ability to help small businesses grow and create new jobs.
The Section 108 program will offe...
COVINGTON, Ky. - More consistent code enforcement. More active communications. More strategic use of business incentive programs to make sure residents also benefit. Better investment of capital sitting in the City’s bank accounts. A more logical organization within City Hall focused on service delivery.
City of Covington informational bulletins over the last year have chronicled a bl...
Sorting through the proposals from the many companies that wanted to help guide economic development in Covington was a lengthy and time-consuming process.
COVINGTON, Ky. - The competition was stiff, but Covington has picked a Georgia firm to spend the first seven months of 2019 creating an overarching strategy in the City for business attraction, retention, expansion, and entrepreneurial support ...
The buildings on Seventh Street that used to house Heringer Meats are being turned into commercial storefronts and apartments.
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington is giving six more businesses help with first-year rent and fixing up their exteriors.
The incentives - representing the second round of funding through the City’s expanded and upgraded Small Business Program - were approved Tue...
Covington’s new historic preservation & planning specialist, Christopher Myers, was out in the City recently, inspecting a deteriorated building on Greenup Street.
COVINGTON, Ky. - The first time Christopher Myers visited Covington, he was so enthralled by the City’s historic buildings and architecture that he couldn’t remember where he had parked.
“I actually &ls...
Randolph Pool in the Eastside neighborhood will get a new roof and fencing in the off-season.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington will spend almost $122,000 in the off-season to make improvements at its two full-size public swimming pools.
The Randolph Pool complex on Greenup Street in the Eastside neighborhood will get a new roof and new fencing, while Goebel Pool on Dalton Street in the MainStrasse...
Covington's current Zoning Ordinance divides the City into acceptable land "uses."
COVINGTON, Ky. - Navigating the City of Covington’s Zoning Ordinance is not for the faint of heart.
Employing a fundamental one-size-fits-all approach that doesn’t honor Covington’s historic, urban fabric and hasn’t kept pace with the evolution of the city - or new concepts like Airbnb, Tiny ...
Starting this evening, drivers coming off Main Street can use about 100 parking spaces in the evening hours in the garage being built as part of the RiverHaus development.
COVINGTON, Ky. - About 100 parking spots will be open to the public starting this evening in the garage built in MainStrasse Village as part of the RiverHaus Apartments complex under construction.
The parking in the garage...
A 10-month process led by a global firm to create a vision for the sprawling IRS site, in a critical part of downtown, will soon be underway.
COVINGTON, Ky. - An intensive process to assess the potential of the soon-to-be vacant 23 acres that make up the IRS site, and to set a vision for developing it, will take about 10 months and get under way in earnest right after the holidays.
Tha...
COVINGTON, Ky. - The $875,000 reconstruction of the western entrance to Covington’s riverfront to make it safer and more accessible to pedestrians took another leap of progress today in a very visible way.
Workers with Riegler Blacktop poured concrete today to form one side of the roadbed for the rebuilt Johnston Street as it turns the corner onto Third Street.
The project incl...