1st-in-a-while annual report touts 2020’s stunning growth
in The Cov’s economic development
COVINGTON, Ky. – An eight-page report released today confirms what City officials suspected: Despite the pandemic, 2020 saw stunning growth and investment in Covington’s economy.
For example:
Page 2 touts overall numbers: The announcement of 2,100 new jobs a...
The early morning sun rises over the vacant building at 314 Greenup St. that will soon open as Governors House Wine Bar + Kitchen, created by the owners of Blinkers Tavern steakhouse next door.
Small Business incentives move eclectic, electric projects forward; $75K still on table for last round of funding
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Susan Smith, who spent 22 years at meetNKY, is the City’s new Manager of Business Attraction.
Smith spent 22 years at meetNKY
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s new Manager of Business Attraction has biked through the Rockies in a hailstorm, hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, rafted the Grand Canyon, and walked amid glaciers and geysers in Iceland.
Fortu...
The City is looking to sell 1530 Holman St. to developers or rehabbers who will renovate it into single-family, owner-occupied housing.
City seeking proposals for single-family housing on Holman
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington is putting another long-vacant, blighted building on the market in an ongoing effort to create single-family housing in established neighborhoods – this o...
The developers’ rendering of the new apartments and commercial space at 303 Court St.
Former jail, city-county office tower to become apartments, commercial space
COVINGTON, Ky. – One of Covington’s tallest buildings when it opened in 1969, 303 Court St. is about to get even taller – plus get a new exterior, a new use, and new tenants.
In a city known for massi...
The building at 1110 Locust St.
Development bids to return vacant buildings, lots to housing use
COVINGTON, Ky. – A program that has returned or is in the process of returning 44 previously vacant City-owned properties to productive use – with the goal of creating more home ownership – is seeking development proposals for its biggest assortment of properties to date.
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The top photo shows the “radiator grille” that once covered 614 Madison Ave. The bottom photo shows the two buildings – 641 Madison and 19 E. Pike St., which wraps around it on two sides – as they looked last fall. The middle photo is a conceptual rendering from WorK Architecture + Design that shows a restored turret.
Transformation to create hotel suites, bourbon ‘ex...
City seeks firms for demolition, environmental hazards removal
COVINGTON, Ky. – Three underground fuel tanks. A 3,000-gallon underground concrete “vault.” A sprawling one-story brick facility whose “footprint” stretches across most of 17 acres. Asbestos. Lots of asphalt.
And cavernous physical plant rooms filled with wires, compressors, greasy gears, gen...
Covington’s Small Business Program has been used over the last few years to help entrepreneurs and small businesses like The Roost in Latonia.
City offering help renovating exteriors, paying startups’ rent
COVINGTON, Ky. – Small businesses in Covington have until Friday, Jan. 29, to apply for the next round of City help in paying first-year rent or fixing up their exteriors.
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But other City, federal help available
COVINGTON, Ky. – One of the City of Covington’s grant programs set up to help businesses survive financially during the pandemic has come to end with the last funds allocated.
The $625,000 Emergency Business Assistance Program was funded with federal CARES Act money funneled through the City and $250,000 from the Kenton County Fisca...