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Goal of citywide business strategy: Action

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 ...

Incentives give boost to six more businesses

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 preservationist Myers fascinated with historic buildings

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...

$122K to be spent on Randolph, Goebel pools

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...

City to rewrite ‘unworkable’ zoning code

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 ...

MainStrasse parking garage open on limited basis

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...

Vision for IRS site to take 10 months

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...

Rebuilt riverfront gateway taking shape

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...

Business workshop explains downtown visitor data

COVINGTON, Ky. - You own a business in Covington and you’ve seen the influx in visitors to the urban core (measured at well over 90,000 people in the month of October). But you want to know more:  What days of the week see the most visitors? What time of day? Are these visitors new to Covington, or have they been here before? What areas do they visit? And, most impo...

$300K on table at Tuesday’s open house

Ritte’s Corner in Latonia is an example of a neighborhood business area eligible for The Ripple Effect. COVINGTON, Ky. - Create a plan to revitalize your neighborhood business area, and the City of Covington will invest $300,000 to help implement the public part of that plan.  But there’s a catch: You have to compete with other Covington areas to “win” the City’s...
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