City arts district gets new support

Covington leaders tout the region

 

City leaders in Northern Kentucky's largest city on Friday reiterated their support for the Covington Arts District, something some in the art world felt was necessary after two new officials joined the City Commission in January, and following some controversy over arts support the past two years.

 

"Covington's a strong supporter of the arts," said new Mayor Denny Bowman, who noted the city has strong arts organizations, including the Baker Hunt Art and Cultural Center, Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Behringer-Crawford Museum, My Nose Turns Red Theatre Company and the Frank Duveneck Arts & Cultural Center, among others.

 

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Midway district gets spruce-up treatment

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Work will begin this month in the Midway business district on streetscape improvements designed to make one of the city's oldest areas more inviting.

 

The telephone wires and poles will disappear in front of the businesses as city crews will spend the next few months putting the utilities underground, said Jay Treft, assistant city administrator.

NKU campus plan delayed until March

By Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati Enquirer, February 16, 2009

 

Northern Kentucky University's campus planners will present a final master plan, a vision for how the university wants to grow, at the Wednesday, March 11 Board of Regents meeting.  Since NKU announced its preliminary plans April 7, many Highland Heights homeowners have been awaiting further news.

 

University planners originally intended to make a final proposal public by the end of January, but that was delayed to give the board a more detailed plan, said Larry Blake, NKU's assistant vice president of facilities management.

Old buildings put to new use

Proceeds from consignment shop to fund soup kitchen

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Businessman David Hosea has brought new life to Campbell County landmark buildings in recent years with major restoration projects.

 

Hosea has turned his attention to three buildings - the Nevada building and Highland Country Club, both in Fort Thomas, and the 85-year-old Christian Science church building in Newport.

 

He poured $250,000 into the Nevada building this fall and winter to take it from a state of near condemnation to an active building with first-floor stores and upstairs apartments.

Vacant Northern Kentucky church gets second chance as condo project

http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/02/23/story12.html

 

A Northern Kentucky development company aims to transform Bellevue’s vacant St. Anthony Church into a five-unit condominium project.

 

Edgewood-based Ashley Commercial Group is developing the $1.5 million project through ACG Living, a new division created to handle urban residential development.

New jail target date is Oct. 2010

 

Bids for construction of a new Kenton County Detention Center are expected to be awarded March 24, and construction should start in June, Kenton County Judge-executive Ralph Drees said. "The idea was that we would have all the money in place by June 1, and the groundbreaking would take place before July 1," said Kenton County Commissioner Dan Humpert.

 

The schedule calls for a 16-month project, Drees said, which means the jail would be completed in October 2010. The new jail off Mary Laidley Drive behind the Kenton County Animal Shelter will replace a crowded, outdated facility spread over more than five floors in the administration building near Covington's riverfront.

 

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NKU's $50.8M Center for Informatics will allow study to spread to multiple disciplines

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Drawings for Northern Kentucky University's new $50.8 million Center for Informatics show a state-of-the-art facility that the university that will serve as both a new home for the College of Informatics and as a gateway to the campus' West Quad.

 

The 110,000-square-foot facility, designed by lead architect Goody Clancy and local architecture firm McGill Smith Punshon Inc., is made up of a central Informatics Common and "digitorium", flanked on two sides by four-story loft-style academic buildings.

 

One enters through the Informatics Common, designed to serve as an intersection between the social and digital worlds contained within the center.

 

This space will house a "genius bar", complete with a multi-discipline technology help desk, research flex space, and a café.

 

Within the common is the two-story glass digitorium, the fully reconfigurable technological heart equipped with audio/visual technology using high-quality LED, digital projection, and intelligent digital displays that allow users to watch, interact with, create and share information.

 

The digitorium's transparent skin is designed to reflect the center's purpose by allowing those outside to witness human interaction, the most basic – yet most complex – of information sharing systems.

 

Lining these spaces is a pair of glass and metal lofts, with classrooms and labs arranged on the lower two floors, administrative functions housed on the third floor, and faculty offices on the fourth floor.

 

Construction of the Center for Informatics is expected to begin within the next two months, with completion occurring by July 2010.

 

The Kentucky legislature has approved $35.5 million for the new center, with the remainder being funded by a mix of grants and private, government, and corporate funding.

 

NKU's College of Informatics is one of less than a dozen nationally devoted to the study of informatics, and the university hopes that the new facility will help supply the skilled workforce needed for the region's information economy by attracting and retaining artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and scientists.

 

Currently a leader in Kentucky's e-health network through the modernization of the delivery of health care through technology, the college is looking to expand its study of electronic information to other disciplines.

 

Northern Kentucky groups partner on revitalization workshop

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Approximately 45 municipal staff from Northern Kentucky's core cities attended a revitalization and stabilization training workshop last week to learn the tools to transfer blighted neighborhoods into thriving residential markets.

 

The Catalytic Development Funding Corp. of Northern Kentucky (CDFC), in partnership with the Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington, Southbank Partners, and Campbell County Economic Progress Authority, hosted the all-day event to show how community, financial, and political support could be cultivated to transform Northern Kentucky's urban areas in a challenging economic climate.

Lab breaks ground on $600,000 wing

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An addition to a former schoolhouse on Newport's West Side will help preserve a massive collection of cancer tissue used in research of the disease.

 

The Wood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory on Wednesday broke ground on a 3,500-square-foot addition behind its facility in Newport that will more safely store its library of tumors.

Fort Thomas plans museum

Old house could reopen in July

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Preparations for a history museum in Fort Thomas have gained momentum.

 

An old house obscured by overgrowth in Fort Thomas's Tower Park could open as a museum as early as July 4, said Debbie Buckley, Fort Thomas' renaissance coordinator. The museum will house relics from the city's past and have rooms dedicated to the Beverly Hills Supper Club, Highlands High School and local artists.

Covington rehabs, sells older homes

By Mike Rutledge, Cincinnati Enquirer, April 17, 2009

 

COVINGTON - Delhi native Melissa Brown feels like the luckiest woman in Northern Kentucky because of the completely renovated late-1800s brick home she's about to buy in the Covington Arts District.

 

"I can't even believe...," the 33-year-old Newport resident said while people milled about inside of the house in the 300 block of West Robbins Street during an open house Thursday.

Wallick-Hendy plans ‘green’ renovation in Covington

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St. Aloysius Apartments, a senior housing development in Covington, will be renovated by Wallick-Hendy Properties using environmentally friendly upgrades, the company said Thursday.

 

The 48-unit complex will be outfitted with Energy-Star-rated appliances, recyclable kitchen cabinets and carpeting, low-flow faucets and toilets, and compact fluorescent light bulbs. A playground will use recycled materials and a recycling program will be established for residents.

Business budding on Pike St.

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After months of quiet, things suddenly are perking on Pike Street again, in the Covington Arts District.

 

Recent days have seen three major developments along Pike Street:

 

On Friday, the first employees from bioLOGIC Corp. LLC will move into a freshly restored building at 632 Russell St. By the end of this month, the bio-tech firm plans to have 20 employees working in the historic building across from the stately Covington Station. The company also expects to lure similar companies to Covington on its coattails.

I was by the Pulse the other day, and noted a "Now Renting" sign on the exterior. This is a positive step for this project. It's in a promising location, but it really needs that critical mass for the area to take off.

Covington developer honored

By Mike Rutledge, Cincinnati Enquirer, May 11, 2009

 

COVINGTON - A man who founded development efforts along Northern Kentucky's riverfront will be this year's Covington Award recipient.

 

David C. Herriman "exemplifies what the Friends of Covington are looking for," said former Mayor Butch Callery, an organizer. "Our past recipients have all been people who have done a lot of good in the Covington community - Ralph Haile (Jr.) and Bill Butler, and people like that."

 

Callery said it was Herriman's early-1980s efforts in building the Riverside Terrace and Riverside Plaza condominiums - 88 units with spectacular riverfront views - that attracted others to development along the river on properties surrounding the Roebling Suspension Bridge.

From church to condos

By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, May 13, 2009

 

BELLEVUE - The former St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Bellevue went on the market this month as condos after the 100-year-old building sat vacant for seven years.

Devou rain work may ease sewage ills

 

A $1.2 million project using federal stimulus money will let Covington harvest rain so it can be used to water its Devou Park golf course, saving the city about $10,000 in watering costs.  The work also will help keep rain water from entering pipes that convey storm water and sewage to an area downhill at Covington's Goebel Park, where the tainted mix spills out after storms.

 

The flooding of pollutants happens at the Willow Run combined sewer overflow, posing health risks in the park, southeast of Interstate 71/75's Fifth Street exit.  Reductions are important because the sanitation district promised federal and state environmental regulators it would significantly cut such overflows, or can face penalties.

 

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i think devou could be one of the most underrated parks in the area... any thoughts?

Educators turn to teamwork for Gateway’s urban campus

Covington branch to incorporate library, middle school space

http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2009/05/25/story6.html

 

Gateway Community and Technical Col­lege has an agreement in principle with the Kenton County Public Library and Covington Independent School System to create an urban campus in the heart of Covington.

 

It will consist of a new building adjacent to the library’s Mary Ann Mongan branch and use of Two Rivers Middle School, which is scheduled to close this summer.

Southgate breaks ground on new firehouse

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The City of Southgate broke ground on its new $1.38-million firehouse.

 

The groundbreaking ceremony, which was held Monday, May 25, marked the beginning of what is expected to be a nine-month construction period.

 

"This is truly history in the making," Mayor Jim Hamberg said at the ceremony. "The city and fire department worked hard together to bring this project to this point."

Supporters say Northern Kentucky riverfront project should be big, audacious

Business Courier of Cincinnati - by Lucy May

 

Development advocates in Northern Kentucky are pushing a bigger, bolder and more expensive pro­ject to connect the region’s river cities along both the Ohio and Licking rivers.  Although the $170 million price tag for the expanded Riverfront Commons project is steep, leaders of Southbank Partners and Vision 2015 believe it could spur new development once the nation’s economic storm has passed.

 

The Riverfront Commons pro­ject proposed by Southbank several years ago now encompasses the Licking River Greenway and Trails project proposed by Vision 2015, Northern Kentucky’s regional planning initiative. The expanded project would: repair erosion problems along both the Ohio and Licking riverfronts; build walkways and bike paths along both rivers; and extend the project’s footprint to include such elements as a tramway to connect Devou Park to Mainstrasse Village in downtown Covington.

 

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I really like the tram to Devou Park idea, if we could get that and the tram from downtown to Mt. Adams done that would kick ass (probably pie in the sky though, but I keep hoping).

I'd have no problem watching KY build a tram there.  That would be perfect and even prove to Cincy and Ham Cty how useful these things COULD be.

 

Clifton, Mt Adams, and or Price Hill someday?

Hebron retail center approved

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During a special meeting Tuesday, Boone County Fiscal Court approved a new retail center on North Bend Road in Hebron, overruling a Boone County Planning Commission recommendation against the development.

 

The vote was unanimous in favor of a zone change from residential to commercial for the 3.7-acre site between North Bend Square and the Cardinal Cove subdivision.

 

The four-person Fiscal Court deadlocked on the issue in May, but Commissioners Cathy Flaig and Charlie Kenner said they changed their minds after developer Bill Toebben agreed to move the building 20 feet back from Cardinal Way.

Pictures with article link...

 

Covington's newest pocket park features tributes to artist Farny

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With dozens of local residents in attendance and characters dressed in period costumes, Covington's newest pocket park was dedicated on Saturday at the corner of Banklick and Robbins streets in the city's Westside neighborhood.

 

Henry Farny Park, named for the internationally-known artist of the landscapes and native peoples of the late 19th/early 20th century American West, occupies a corner just a few parcels away from 1029-1031 Banklick Street, where Farny resided from 1890 to 1907.

Hebron retail center approved

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During a special meeting Tuesday, Boone County Fiscal Court approved a new retail center on North Bend Road in Hebron, overruling a Boone County Planning Commission recommendation against the development.

 

The vote was unanimous in favor of a zone change from residential to commercial for the 3.7-acre site between North Bend Square and the Cardinal Cove subdivision.

 

Useless.  Plenty of unleased retail already sitting empty in this area.

NKU pushes building project

 

Northern Kentucky University turns away 400 students a year interested in nursing and other health-care fields because it doesn't have enough classrooms and labs to house them.  Without a new Health Innovations Center, NKU faces the continued deterioration of the Old Science Center that holds nearly one-quarter of classrooms on the Highland Heights campus.

 

Those will be NKU's main arguments Tuesday when it joins the region's civic leaders to push for a $92.5 million project that would renovate the older building and add an adjacent newer building.

 

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NKU group to restore stream

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A stream in Tower Park clogged with decades-old rubble will get new life.

 

Northern Kentucky University's Center for Applied Ecology will clear the debris and dig the stream out of underground pipes to return it to its natural state.

 

NKU will use $783,000 from the Northern Kentucky Stream Restoration Wetland Program to repair next summer the 4,800-foot stream that runs from behind the tennis courts in the park, down the hill and into the Ohio River.

I noticed today at work that there is an old building getting redone in Covington. If I read it right it used to be the First Presbyterian Church erected 1830 A.D.. It's an old brick building on E 4th St. directly across from the end of Court Street. I was told that a financial firm was moving in. To be honest, from what I saw of the building and of all the work that is having to be done, it might have been cheaper to build a new office.

Fort Thomas building amphitheater

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A $30,000 state grant will allow Fort Thomas to build a new amphitheater in Tower Park.

 

City officials hope to have the 81-year-old concrete band shell in the park replaced by next July with a new stage complete with dressing rooms and utilities.

 

This would fulfill the dream Flo and Dan Grey had when they created the Fourth at the Fort committee in 2003. The committee has organized the annual July 4 celebration in Tower Park to raise money for the amphitheater project.

Our company (subcontractor for Duke) has been dumping dirt there for months. It's pretty cool that I had something to do with this in a very round about way.

BlueStar opens new HQ in Hebron, to hire 60

http://www.soapboxmedia.com/innovationnews/0721bluestar.aspx

 

BlueStar, a provider of solutions-based distribution technology, recently opened a new 150,000 square-foot world headquarters in Hebron, Kentucky. The new facility includes a state-of-the-art training center, warehouse and distribution center, and corporate headquarters. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and BlueStar President and CEO Steve Kuntz attended the June 25 ribbon-cutting ceremony.

New affordable housing options on Newport's Hamlet Street

http://www.building-cincinnati.com/2009/08/new-affordable-housing-options-on.html

 

Affordable houses are now for sale on Hamlet Street in Newport.

 

The development, under construction by Neighborhood Foundations and the Newport Millennium Housing Corporation between 8th and 9th streets, includes both historic rehabilitation of the street's brick houses and new infill.

 

Houses are priced at $122,000, and qualified buyers are eligible for an up to $34,400 soft second mortgage, forgivable over five years.

 

Other Neighborhood Foundations properties include the Corpus Christi Apartments, Grand Towers, the Peter G. Noll Apartments, and scattered site projects throughout Newport's west side.

$1M grant may inject new life into historic RayMee Building

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By Randy A. Simes | Soapbox Cincinnati, August 11, 2009

 

Dayton, KY officials have applied for a $1 million Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) that will be used to fund the RayMee Building Redevelopment Project.

 

The grant uses federal funds that are administered by the State, and can be used for housing, public facilities, community programs and/or economic development.  Local officials believe that the redevelopment project will result in the creation of 50 low to moderate income jobs at around $20,000 – not including the temporary construction jobs that will be needed for the project.  Richard Bragg of the Northern Kentucky Area Development District says that the approval process for such a grant could take several months.

 

The 1,800 square-foot building is said to be in "sound" condition and should be ready for interior finishing by June 2010.

 

Local officials have high hopes for the structure as it is prominently located across the street from where the new municipal building will stand.  The corner location also presents an opportunity to connect the historic downtown area to the new businesses opening along the riverfront in the new Manhattan Harbour development project that will become the first "smart community" in the United States when it opens.

 

"The building is now a white elephant," says Bragg who believes the structure will be the most important preserved building in Northern Kentucky due in part to its location and prominence.

 

The City believes that the project will help create jobs, provide additional services to the neighborhood and continue the redevelopment efforts in the downtown business district.  To help make this reality the city of Dayton, Kentucky is prepared to provide parking and related amenities to help better serve the residents and businesses in the immediate vicinity.

 

Bids being accepted for Newport renovations

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By Kevin LeMaster | Building Cincinnati, October 13, 2009

 

Neighborhood Foundations, formerly known as the Housing Authority of Newport, is accepting sealed bids for the renovations of 922 Hamlet Street and of 927 and 929 Hamlet Street.

 

Part of the non-profit's revitalization of much of the 800 and 900 blocks of Hamlet Street, the completed homes will be offered to low- to moderate-income homebuyers and will come with a soft second mortgage, allowing prospective homebuyers to own the homes after eight years.

 

Funding for the projects comes from $1 million in Community Development Block Grant funds.

 

Bids for both projects will be accepted until noon on October 23, at which time bids will be publicly opened and read aloud.

 

Developer’s woes unlikely to hurt Covington Bluffs condo project

By Dan Monk | Cincinnati Business Courier, October 16, 2009

 

A foreclosure filing against the developer that converted the Bluffs apartment property to condos in 2005 will not impact the Devou Park community itself, according to the treasurer of the Bluffs’ Council of Co-Owners.  “The condo community is financially very healthy,” said John Pratt, referring to the Bank of America’s recent lawsuit against City Lights Development LLC.

 

The bank claims that City Lights owes $4.8 million from a pair of promissory notes executed in 2005 and 2006. But Pratt said the foreclosure case should have only a limited impact on the Bluffs condos, because City Lights doesn’t own most of the buildings in the river-view community.

 

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Fort Thomas awaits officers' homes

By Scott Wartman, Kentucky Enquirer, October 30, 2009

 

FORT THOMAS - The city still doesn't know when it can purchase the 19th century military officers' homes in Tower Park.

 

City officials hoped to reach an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs to buy the homes this year.

Arrgh... I thought the homes had already been sold. The VA really needs to stop dragging its feet.

 

This thread includes some photos I took of the houses this past June.

Over the weekend I found out that my parents have signed up for the waiting list to be notified when the homes are for sale, and are planning to submit a bit for one when the auction starts. It would take some substantial renovation work to bring one of those homes up to snuff, but it would be well worth it. [fingers crossed]

Edison to be apartments?

By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, November 6, 2009

 

COVINGTON - A Lexington-based developer wants to turn the vacant Thomas Edison Elementary school into apartments.

 

AU Associates has applied for a zone change, tax credits and a designation on the historic register for the old school building at 1516 Scott St. in the Helentown neighborhood.

Changing the name just gets to me.  It's still 4th District to me!! 

Fort Thomas moves forward with Tower Park amphitheater project

By Amanda Joering Alley, Kentucky Enquirer, November 17, 2009

 

After years of planning and fundraising, Tower Park may have a new amphitheater in time for the Fourth at the Fort celebration next July.

 

At a meeting Monday, Nov. 16 the Fort Thomas City Council approved a proposal to move forward with the architectural and engineering services for the amphitheater replacement project.

Burned-out row houses may get new life

By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, November 23, 2009

 

COVINGTON - The four charred row houses destroyed by fire in October in Covington may get new life if residents successfully raise money and find a developer.

 

The cause of the fire that destroyed the row houses in the 1000 block of Russell Street and took the life of one of the residents, Lelia Burns, 57, remains under investigation, according to fire department officials.

Drawbridge fate in hands of 'hotel doctor'

By Cindy Schroeder, Cincinnati Enquirer, December 1, 2009

 

FORT MITCHELL - The future of the Drawbridge Inn, a 39-year-old Fort Mitchell landmark, is uncertain.

 

The Drawbridge Inn is in foreclosure, and its owners had threatened to shut it down this Sunday night, before a judge intervened Monday and appointed a receiver to operate the sprawling, old-English themed hotel.

Open house set for new Campbell building

By Kevin Kelly, Cincinnati Enquirer, December 3, 2009

 

NEWPORT - The public is invited to stop by the new Campbell County Administration Building and Health Center for an open house next week.

 

The event is scheduled for 4-7 p.m. Wednesday. At 5 p.m., county officials and others involved with the $13.5 million project will hold a small ceremony in the Fiscal Court chambers. Provided it arrives in time, a plaque commemorating the building's construction will be unveiled and placed in the vestibule area.

Public input sought for Mall Road

By Mark Hansel, Cincinnati Enquirer, December 7, 2009

 

FLORENCE - The city of Florence will hold a public workshop on Tuesday to gather input and provide updates about the Mall Road redesign project.

 

This will be the first chance to view the concept design proposal for the project.

Roebling Point plan to be honed

By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, December 7, 2009

 

COVINGTON - The creation of a development plan for the business district at the Covington approach of the Roebling Suspension Bridge will start tonight.

 

A committee of about 15 business and property owners with a stake in the area known as Roebling Point will meet at city hall at 6 p.m. with city leaders to discuss the planning process. The Roebling Point Planning Committee meeting is open to the public.

Planners try again with Roebling Point

By Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, December 8, 2009

 

COVINGTON - City planners have wrestled with the question of what to do with the public square in Covington just off the Roebling Bridge since at least the 1970s.

 

In 1973, a civic center was proposed on Park Place in the area now known as Roebling Point. Development plans for Roebling Point from 1980, 1998 and 2001 showed various mixed use developments with more green space on the square.

Gateway urban campus to open by early 2010

By Andy Brownfield, Business Courier of Cincinnati, December 10, 2009

 

Gateway Community & Technical College’s planned urban campus in Covington could open as soon as late January, college President and CEO Edward Hughes announced Wednesday.

 

Gateway has signed a lease with the Covington school district’s board to use the Two Rivers Middle School building as a site for the urban campus, Hughes announced at a Kentucky Community & Technical College System luncheon Wednesday. Two Rivers had closed over the summer.

 

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Gateway Community unveils new building, faces deficit

By Andy Brownfield, Business Courier of Cincinnati, December 9, 2009

 

Gateway Community & Technical College unveiled a new building on its Boone County campus Wednesday, though it faces a deficit in its budget to maintain and operate the school.

 

During a morning tour for members of the Northern Kentucky legislative caucus and the school’s manufacturing company partners, Gateway President and CEO Edward Hughes showed off the new Center for Advanced Manufacturing, which will open in spring 2010. Among the attending companies were Eagle Manufacturing, SKF Vehicle Service Market, Mazak, KAO Brands and Wagstaff.

Stimulus aids Newport rehab efforts

By Scott Wartman, Kentucky Enquirer, December 12, 2009

 

NEWPORT - Federal stimulus money will go toward building new homes next summer for low-income people on Hamlet Street in the city's east end.

 

The Newport City Commission approved several orders last week to allow Neighborhood Foundations, formerly known as the Housing Authority of Newport, to use a $1 million grant it was approved for in July.