The second Beyond The Curb event in Northern Kentucky’s River Cities was just as successful as the first. This time, after a big turnout in Covington last spring, the Catalytic Fund brought its urban living tour to Newport. Nearly 700 visitors took the tour and checked out newly renovated historic properties, new apartment and condo […]
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You Can Go Inside These Newport Properties on Sunday
Oh, what a treat you’re in for this weekend in Newport! Beyond The Curb is back! After a successful spring launch in Covington, Northern Kentucky’s urban living tour crosses the Licking River with a list of properties that will have you salivating to be part of the region’s urban renaissance. The listings on Sunday’s tour […]
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Belief in Covington Inspires Young Developer to Transform Blighted Properties
222 Berry Street is a tiny shotgun-style house built more than a century ago and before its recent transformation, was pretty much a dated, dumpy mess. Seeing these diamonds in the rough, however, and returning them to glory takes a keen eye, skill, money, and in the case of young developer Daniel Streicher, passion for […]
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Longtime Licking Riverside Resident, Protector to Be Memorialized with Plaque in Park
Patrick Flannery was a Covingtonian through and through. Patrick and his wife Anne raised their five children on Riverside Drive in a bungalow that the family still owns. Flannery is described as being a flamboyant and larger-than-life personality who over the decades made numerous efforts to stop development in the neighborhood that would have resulted […]
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Board Gives OK to Tear Down Mainstrasse Building
A Covington city board cautiously granted approval to tear down an historic residence in Mainstrasse Village. Owner Drew Hauck hopes to raze the duplex at 249-251 West Seventh Street, which he says is collapsing. He has owned it alone since 2003 but was part of a company that first purchased the property in 1995. Twenty […]
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New Building for Welcome House Offices to Be Constructed
The Welcome House will eventually have new offices to occupy along Martin Luther King Boulevard in Covington. The non-profit organization that works with homeless individuals and families revealed their plans while seeking approval from the city’s board of adjustments last week. A new building, designed by Covington-based Hub + Weber Architects, will replace the current […]
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Photos: Historic Covington Lumber Mill Prepares for Transformation
For 130 years, the Hellmann Lumber Company played an important role in the building of Covington. Now its historic building will play another role in its revitalization. Though the company, still family-owned after all these years, now operates in Walton, its former headquarters on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Covington will be the new […]
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On 139th Birthday, Duveneck Disciple Will Finally Have Proper Headstone Thanks to Student of Her Own
The craft of creating art is often taught and passed down through the generations. Such is the case in Northern Kentucky when Covington artist Aileen McCarthy—a student of world renown artist Frank Duveneck—began taking on pupils in her home on W. 21st Street many decades ago. McCarthy died in 1982 at the age of 96, but her […]
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Developer of Newport School Property Shows Possible Design, Eyes Other Opportunities
The new residential and commercial development that will replace the Newport Intermediate School next year was presented to the Newport City Commission on Monday evening as the city explores the possibility of utilizing industrial revenue bonds to help the project. “One item in the contract, a condition in the purchase, is that there be consideration […]
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Kenton Cemetery, Conservation District Honored with State Awards
The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet honored two Kenton County entities at its recent Environmental Excellence awards ceremony. The sprawling Highland Cemetery in Ft. Mitchell was one of the honorees, receiving the Community Environmental Luminary Award for its wildlife enhancement trust fund out in place to preserve and enhance the undeveloped cemetery property. The cemetery […]
