November 23, 20168 yr Massive mixed-use project begins construction Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was in Covington on Tuesday to kick off a major mixed-use project. The Catalytic Fund, city of Covington, NorthPointe Group and Bellwether Enterprise broke ground Tuesday afternoon on the Duveneck Square project that will include a four-story building along Washington Street between Seventh and Eighth streets. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2016/11/23/massive-mixed-use-project-begins-construction.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 9, 20178 yr paywall article, anyone have access? Cincinnati’s top builders, developers team up for huge NKY project Feb 9, 2017, 2:20pm EST Tom Demeropolis Senior Staff Reporter Cincinnati Business Courier In addition to redeveloping the Bavarian Brewing site, the teams are to redevelop the current Kenton County Administration Building Some of Greater Cincinnati’s top construction and development firms have teamed up to chase a massive redevelopment project in Northern Kentucky. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/02/09/cincinnati-s-top-builders-developers-team-up-for.html
March 14, 20178 yr $40 million apartment project in MainStrasse moving forward A large, luxury apartment project in Covington’s MainStrasse Village is preparing to break ground soon. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/03/14/40-million-apartment-project-in-mainstrasse.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 14, 20178 yr ^I've been to that new Signage restaurant. The menu was particularly easy to read.
March 15, 20178 yr I do like Chipelto, but I prefer getting a big sandwich at Johnny Jim's to take into a Reds' game.
March 22, 20178 yr Developer plans apartments, retail in Covington One of Covington’s busiest developers is planning to redevelop the 800 block of Madison Avenue, Soapbox Cincinnati reports. Orleans Development is leading development of Madison Flats, which will include 13 one-bedroom apartments and five storefronts. The new project is scheduled to be complete this summer. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/03/22/developer-plans-apartments-retail-in-covington.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 23, 20178 yr Apartments, new county offices fuel Covington development Add at least $115 million to the amount of projects in development or under construction in Greater Cincinnati. That’s the minimum amount of investment taking place in the city of Covington. We’ve added eight Covington projects to the Crane Watch map. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/03/23/apartments-new-county-offices-fuel-covington.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 24, 20178 yr I have a feelingn (perhaps just naive optimism) that the opening of the <a href="http://hotelcovington.com/">Hotel Covington</a> (scheduled to open in August) is going to mark a tipping point for retail in Covington. I was exploring Covington recently and was reminded of how incredible the streetscape of Madison Ave is, especially around the intersection with Pike Street. Each building is so different from its neighbor and the architectural details are stunning. In between 6th and 8th streets along Madison, we will have Hotel Covington, Braxton Brewing, and the Madison Theater. Each of those spaces is (or will be) a regional draw, and I suspect we will see other storefronts start to open up to capitalize on the draw. Don't forget the "Duveneck Square" project, which will activate even more of this corridor: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/morning_call/2015/12/massive-covington-mixed-use-project-moves-forward.html Ground has been cleared for this project. Construction should start soon.
April 12, 20178 yr Development team drops pursuit of huge NKY project One of the three construction and development teams that was chasing the massive redevelopment of the former Bavarian Brewing site in Covington has decided not to pursue the project. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/04/12/exclusive-development-team-drops-pursuit-of-huge.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 1, 20178 yr For those that don't get down to Covington too often, Duveneck Square apartments are rising quickly, at least compared to some of the other large apartment projects around town.
June 8, 20178 yr Duveneck Square lands restaurant as first tenant As revitalization continues in the city of Covington, a mixed-use development in the urban core is taking shape and has a commitment from its first tenant, a restaurant. Phase 1 of Duveneck Square will feature 110 apartments and retail. More below: http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/06/08/duveneck-square-lands-restaurant-as-first-tenant.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 21, 20177 yr Kenton County selects team for huge NKY project Jun 21, 2017, 4:07pm EDT Tom Demeropolis Senior Staff Reporter Cincinnati Business Courier Kenton County has selected a team to redevelop the former Bavarian Brewing property into the county’s administration campus. A team led by Turner Construction Co. has been selected to create about 80,000 square… more http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/06/21/kenton-county-selects-team-for-huge-nky-project.html
June 21, 20177 yr The team led by Turner Construction Co. has been selected to create about 80,000 square feet of administrative office space to house the Kenton County Fiscal Court at 1200 Jillian’s Way in Covington. The other members of the team include engineering consultant Brandstetter Carroll Inc., architecture firm SFA Architects Inc., structural engineer THP Limited Inc., developer/design-builder Al Neyer and real estate developer Urban Sites. Wow! Cool to see Urban Sites branching out into other neighborhoods (and cities) and taking on larger projects.
July 13, 20177 yr $15 million high-end condo development coming to NKY hillside A luxury condominium developer is getting ready to start on a $15 million second phase of high-end condos. JoshuaOne, the developer of the Views in Covington, is starting construction on the Verandas @TheViews. The 18-unit building will offer condos between $800,000 and $1 million, as well as a $2 million upper-floor penthouse condo. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/07/13/15-million-high-end-condo-development-coming-to.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 10, 20177 yr Hotel tax increase OK'd; paves way to expand NKY convention center Expansion of the Northern Kentucky Convention Center got the green light this week when the Boone County Fiscal Court unanimously approved a 1 percent increase in Northern Kentucky’s hotel bed tax. Boone County's vote follows unanimous votes earlier this summer by the Campbell and Kenton fiscal courts. Under state statue, the region's three county fiscal courts were required to approve the increase. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/08/10/hotel-tax-increase-okdpaves-way-to-expand-nky.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 10, 20177 yr ^expansion will be onto IRS site I presume? Wonder what the time frame is. www.cincinnatiideas.com
August 21, 20177 yr $40M MainStrasse project to use unique financing A nearly $40 million mixed-use project in Covington’s MainStrasse Village will be the first new development in Kentucky to use a unique type of financing. River Haus, a 187-unit luxury apartment building with commercial space and parking being developed by Flaherty & Collins Properties, will be the first new construction project in Kentucky to use an Energy Project Assessment District to finance energy efficiency improvements. The district allows Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, financing to pay for improvements. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/08/21/exclusive-40m-mainstrasse-project-to-use-unique.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 22, 20177 yr Looks the same as all the other crap being built today, but I guess maybe I hope they figure it out....
December 15, 20177 yr Construction starting on Covington’s next condo project Orleans Development is preparing to start construction of its next condominium development in Covington. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/12/15/construction-starting-on-covington-s-next-condo.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 30, 20187 yr Developers plan office complex, 700-car parking garage in Covington As construction is wrapping up on the first phase of Duveneck Square in Covington, the development team and city officials are working together to start the next phase of the project. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/01/30/exclusive-developers-plan-office-complex-700-car.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 15, 20187 yr $38 million mixed-use project in MainStrasse moves forward A roughly $38 million mixed-use project in the heart of Covington is another step closer to starting construction. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/02/14/38-million-mixed-use-project-in-mainstrasse-moves.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 15, 20187 yr $38 million mixed-use project in MainStrasse moves forward A roughly $38 million mixed-use project in the heart of Covington is another step closer to starting construction. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/02/14/38-million-mixed-use-project-in-mainstrasse-moves.html Wow. This is the exact sort of project that should be going up in Over-the-Rhine.
February 15, 20187 yr ^Yeah I agree and good for Covington. The Liberty and Elm could have been a big project like this and actually bigger but it got sliced and diced to nothing and now there is nothing there except what was already there before. And now further down the line it is going to be more expensive to have anything for low income residents than it was before anyways.
February 15, 20187 yr Keep in mind that a block away at 501 Main Street the River Haus development by Flaherty & Collins is well underway. There is currently a 20 foot deep hole where there was once a bank and surface parking lot. I'll take some pictures next time the weather cooperates.
February 15, 20187 yr The section of Covington north of Pike St. is becoming quite expensive. But just steps south, south of MLK, it is comically inexpensive. It's like transitioning from OTR prices to Elmwood Place prices in an instant.
February 15, 20187 yr With the new Kenton County offices moving into Bavarian Brewery, the center for great neighborhoods new offices on MLK and the newish St. Elizabeh location, I feel like the properties around Linden Grove Cemetery have to start rising soon. MLK is just too wide and it acts as a real barrier to feeling like you are in the same walkable neighborhood as Mainstrasse, Pike street or Seminary Square.
February 15, 20187 yr ^ Unfortunately they just widened it to its current width a few years ago. :facepalm:
February 15, 20187 yr MLK is the Liberty Street of Covington. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
February 15, 20187 yr What's amazing about that road project is that they tore down everything on the south side of the street but built a parking lane. Nobody needs to park there because there are no buildings. And with the typical house in that area selling for $60k, there is no market push for new construction. https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0767965,-84.5135334,3a,75y,298.1h,93.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXgzwysM9Dutf0vJDxMGlvA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DXgzwysM9Dutf0vJDxMGlvA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D171.65659%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
February 15, 20187 yr While we are ranting... That project fulfills it's function of getting people from I-75 to Newport faster, but even that it doesn't accomplish well. The really annoying thing is that even if you just look at the ability to move cars faster, it then jumps OVER the AA highway extension in Newport with no connection to help connect Covington to Ovation/downtown/the Levee. And if it's purpose was to be an East/West connection, it fails again because instead of aligning the 12th street bridge with 10th street in Newport which extends to Newport Pavillion and I-471, it connects to 11th which dead ends at Monmouth.
February 15, 20187 yr While we are ranting... That project fulfills it's function of getting people from I-75 to Newport faster, but even that it doesn't accomplish well. The really annoying thing is that even if you just look at the ability to move cars faster, it then jumps OVER the AA highway extension in Newport with no connection to help connect Covington to Ovation/downtown/the Levee. And if it's purpose was to be an East/West connection, it fails again because instead of aligning the 12th street bridge with 10th street in Newport which extends to Newport Pavillion and I-471, it connects to 11th which dead ends at Monmouth. I didn't realize that getting people from I-75 to Newport was one of the goals of the MLK widening project. It also doesn't seem effective at getting people from Newport back to I-75, because MLK is still one-way eastbound between Scott Blvd. and the bridge, so people have to make several turns in Covington to get to the highway.
February 15, 20187 yr I'd like to see before/after traffic counts for the Licking River Bridge. And by before, I mean back in the 90s when it was still a toll bridge. I seem to recall in that bridge's last years that no toll was being collected on that thing -- I never saw a guy in the booth. John Schneider has mentioned a few times that when FWW's reconstruction was studied in the late 90s, they found a surprising amount of traffic -- like roughly 10% -- was trips that originated in Kentucky headed back to Kentucky. So people who lived in Covington who traveled to Newport often did so by traveling across state lines -- twice.
February 15, 20187 yr I'd like to see before/after traffic counts for the Licking River Bridge. And by before, I mean back in the 90s when it was still a toll bridge. I seem to recall in that bridge's last years that no toll was being collected on that thing -- I never saw a guy in the booth. John Schneider has mentioned a few times that when FWW's reconstruction was studied in the late 90s, they found a surprising amount of traffic -- like roughly 10% -- was trips that originated in Kentucky headed back to Kentucky. So people who lived in Covington who traveled to Newport often did so by traveling across state lines -- twice. The fastest way to get from Bellevue to the Covington Fast Food district is to go to 471 to FWW then to 75/71 over the BSB. So weird. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
February 15, 20187 yr So people who lived in Covington who traveled to Newport often did so by traveling across state lines -- twice. Literally did this all the time growing up (in Covington). I don't as much anymore, though from Mainstrasse to the Newport Kroger/Target it is still faster to go through Ohio.
March 20, 20187 yr http://www.rcnky.com/articles/2018/03/19/luxury-condo-building-coming-downtown-covington More condos coming to Covington.
March 20, 20187 yr http://www.rcnky.com/articles/2018/03/19/luxury-condo-building-coming-downtown-covington More condos coming to Covington. ^This is a great sign for Covington.
March 20, 20187 yr http://www.rcnky.com/articles/2018/03/19/luxury-condo-building-coming-downtown-covington More condos coming to Covington. ^This is a great sign for Covington. The Ascent is finally close to having sold all units...10 years after they first went on sale.
April 1, 20187 yr Duveneck square started move in today. The building closest to 7th street with the retail on the first floor is still unfinished. Also today was Braxton's 3 year anniversary with talk of adding a rooftop deck.
June 11, 20187 yr Get a look inside latest NKY's newest apartments Construction is finished on the first phase of Duveneck Square, a $17 million mixed-use project that includes 110 apartments. Lisa Scovic, partner with real estate developer NorthPointe Group, said the apartments are now 40 percent leased. Demand has been strong across the board, Scovic said. “I will say we are almost out of our studios but our two-bedrooms are almost gone as well,” Scovic said. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/06/11/get-a-look-inside-latest-nkys-newest-apartments.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 12, 20186 yr Here’s how plans for NKY Convention Center expansion will get started A Minneapolis-based firm will help decide what changes will be made at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center. Conventions, Sports & Leisure International is leading a feasibility study to inform the center’s planned expansion. It was selected from among four competing firms. The feasibility study is expected to take 12 to 14 weeks to complete and will focus on three key areas. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/07/12/here-s-how-plans-for-nky-convention-center.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 12, 20186 yr After the IRS moves out, there will be space to build a convention center 2x as big as the Duke Energy Center. I say do it, tear down ours, its ugly parking garage, and replace it all with residential and office.
July 16, 20186 yr Apparently I need to get my photo sharing fixed. Can anybody see the pic below? I'm not having a problem seeing them so I'm not sure if they are working now. I stopped by the new Kenton County Admin building over the weekend to take a peak at the progress.
July 16, 20186 yr I see it but the picture is full sized. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
July 16, 20186 yr That looks like a big project and I had read about it a few times. Couple questions please ignore my ignorance of Covington: 1.) Will this be visible from I-75? I believe so? 2.) What is this area of Covington like? I don't think there is any mixed use to this project, is there? 3.) Any potential for spin off development? I suppose that would depend if it is a mixed use project or not.
July 16, 20186 yr That looks like a big project and I had read about it a few times. Couple questions please ignore my ignorance of Covington: 1.) Will this be visible from I-75? I believe so? 2.) What is this area of Covington like? I don't think there is any mixed use to this project, is there? 3.) Any potential for spin off development? I suppose that would depend if it is a mixed use project or not. You can probably answer all of those by checking it out here on GOogle maps. It is very visible but will be entirely a county govt building. I can see it spurring some more lunch options on this end of Main st as they are mostly all in the north end. Sadly they only kept the more visible front of the old brewery and tore down the other 3/4 of the complex. I guess it is good that it got preserved in some manner but the new look of it leaves a lot to be desired. I call it the #brewery building based on what i saw in the rendering of the proposed final look. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cincinnati,+OH/@39.075736,-84.5181535,38a,35y,4.41h,74.82t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x884051b1de3821f9:0x69fb7e8be4c09317!8m2!3d39.1031182!4d-84.5120196
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