An outdoor dining and drinking area on Seventh Street is created each evening from on-street parking near Braxton Brewing Co.’s taproom and Parlor on Seventh, McK’s Chicks, and Rich’s Proper Food and Drink restaurants.
City extends pandemic-related ReCov outdoor seating campaign,
allows heaters
COVINGTON, Ky. - Up Over Bar owner Amy Kummler has great appreciat...
DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer takes a bite out of the Monarch Building annex. (Photo courtesy of DBL Law)
$11.3MM Monarch Building rehab to create home for DBL Law
COVINGTON, Ky. - With a ferocious bite from an excavator’s “claw,” DBL Law Managing Partner Bob Hoffer ripped off part of a concrete block and brick wall, officially breaking ground on the $11.3 million pr...
Zapata Cantina joins internationally-themed dining scene in historic spot
COVINGTON, Ky. - After months of buildup, on Wednesday it officially happened: Covington has a new restaurant named after a Mexican revolutionary and folk hero and co-owned by a veteran restaurateur who was in 2019 was named Ohio Restaurant Association’s Restaurateur of the year for southern Ohio.
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A crew from M&M Service Station Equipment Specialist, Inc. installs a service station tank in Charleston, W.Va. (Photo from M&M Service)
M&M Service the Tri-state leader in gas station construction, services
COVINGTON, Ky. - Yet another growing leader in its industry is moving its corporate headquarters to Covington, and this project, City officials say, boasts a strong “wow fact...
Ross Patten has two new titles at the City of Covington -- assistant economic development director and co-author.
Collaborative book a roadmap for economic revitalization
COVINGTON, Ky. - The title of the new book is “Economic Development is Not for Amateurs!” ... but as one of its authors says, “it’s not rocket science” either.
That juxtaposition ...
Ripple Wine Bar’s outdoor seating on Pike Street was hopping on Tuesday night.
City urges support for (& compliance at) bars, restaurants
COVINGTON, Ky. - The state of Kentucky’s ever-evolving response to COVID-19 had good news for eating and drinking establishments this week: As of Tuesday, bars could reopen and restaurants could return to 50 percent seating capacity.
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Noting that the parking lot adjacent to Innovation Alley has hosted events over the years, the report from Emersion Design said it was “important for the new alley improvements to allow for these grassroots, pop-up activities to continue and thrive. This alley should become a ‘place’ and a ‘path.’ ”
New ‘hub,’ other changes to energize entrepreneurs...
Thousands worked at soon-to-be-demolished IRS center
COVINGTON, Ky. - A single photograph shared by City Hall this week from inside the soon-to-be-demolished IRS processing center triggered memories for Covingtonians who used to work at the massive facility:
... “I met a lot of good people there. Good times.”
... “Brings back a thousand memo...
Millions of federal tax returns were processed over the last 52 years within the cavernous IRS facility on Fourth Street. With the center shut down, the City now owns the building and 23-acre site.
With purchase final, demolition of cavernous building up next
COVINGTON, Ky. - The City of Covington took possession of the 23-acre IRS site today, officially closing t...
A banner outside the Monarch Building on Fourth Street, the future home of Northern Kentucky’s law firm, DBL Law.
Don’t listen to us, let the business executives explain
COVINGTON, Ky. - With about 1,000 jobs announced in Covington since March 1 and a seemingly unending plethora of unique and high-profile economic development headlines recently, clearly something is catching the...