The Covington City Commission heard proposals to name or rename streets at the Central Riverfront Development site on Tuesday. The proposals either extend names from adjacent streets or reference important figures and institutions from Covington’s history.
Economic Development Director Tom West presented each name as an ordinance proposal, meaning they must go through two public readings and a vote in order to be approved.
The proposals are as follows:
- Third Street will be extended through the center of the site, connecting the existing Third Street at Madison Avenue and Johnson Street.
- Russell Street will be extended one block enabling it to fully connect Third and Fourth Streets.
- Washington Street will be extended from its current starting point on Fourth Street to a small alley located north of Third Street between development blocks K and L. This will bring it into alignment with existing sections of Washington Street south of Sixth Street.
- The new roads slated to go in between Washington and Johnson Streets, wrapping around development block J will be named Russell Square.
- A new alley that will connect Johnson Street and Eva Farris Way north of development blocks A, B and N will be named Stewart Alley. The name recognizes Stewart Iron Works, which operated in Covington from 1903 to 1983.
- The new alley between development blocks C and D will be named Kelley Alley after J. Robert Kelley, founder of the Covington Rotary Club and the Kelley-Koett Company, which manufactured X-ray machines.
- The new alley between development blocks E and F will be named Hemingray Alley after Hemingray Glass Company, which operated a plant in Covington from 1852 to 1902.
- The new alley between development blocks K and L will be called Know Place, as there will be no businesses with addresses on that alley. Additionally, city staff members who proposed the name though the pun was quirky, keeping in line with the city’s branding efforts to portray the city as quirky.
The commission will perform a first reading of the ordinances at the legislative meeting next week on Aug. 13 starting at 6 p.m. at Covington City Hall on Pike Street.