The City of Covington plans to buy the building that formerly housed Gateway Community and Technical College’s Professional Services Center and Massage Clinic, located on Scott Boulevard across from the Kenton County Public Library branch, and then sell it to office developers.
“We would use this to create or attract jobs and increase payroll tax revenue,” said Covington Economic Development Director Tom West at the meeting of the Covington Board of Commissioners on the evening of March 3. After some discussion, the commissioners placed approval of the purchase order for the building on the consent agenda for next week, meaning it will likely pass.
Gateway moved out of the building at the end of last year. At that point, the building served as a space for the college’s massage and nursing training programs. The massage program has since relocated to Gateway’s building on Madison Avenue, and the nursing program is now housed in Gateway’s Edgewood campus…