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Clive’s ‘crop circle installation’

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...

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. ...

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...

The increasing allure of the Covington riverfront’s 23 acres

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...

‘The 5-billion-dollar mile’: Bulldozers at the ready for 23 acres

City seeks legislative support, contractor to prepare site for developers COVINGTON, Ky. – With private developers waiting in the wings, the City of Covington hopes to break ground in early spring on installing the public infrastructure that will transform a 23-acre “blank canvas” a block south of the Ohio River into a shovel-ready site. The City has issued a formal re...

Getting the lay of the land

Developers, brokers visit 23 acres to eye 4 parcels on table COVINGTON, Ky. – Developers and brokers interested in the first four parcels of the 23-acre Covington Central Riverfront site in downtown Covington got a chance to tour the cleared site today with the City’s economic development, procurement, and infrastructure staff. The optional visit was to show how the 23 acres...

Developers, broker sought for 4 pieces of IRS site

A conceptual rendering that shows the levee park and public plaza, and how the parcels and buildings are meant to create a neighborhood feel. New phase begins to reintegrate 23-acre ‘island’ with mix of office, commercial, residential and other uses COVINGTON, Ky. – The transformation of the 23-acre former IRS site has entered a new phase – the City of Covington is...
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