Three scenarios for 23 acres continue the public discussion
COVINGTON, Ky. - “Green on the Levee” features a strong retail street grid oriented diagonally on the site with a gradual slope up to a massive park near the Ohio River.
“Love the Covline” features a linear park running north-south through the site with “bridges” from building ...
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...
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...
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...
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 – On Wednesday afternoon, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it will be closing its flat top facility in Covington in 2019, resulting in the elimination of about 1,826 jobs.
A statement from the IRS said: “As part of the continuing efforts to use resources efficiently, the IRS is taking steps to further consolidate submission processing operations across the ...