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...
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...