by Michael Monks
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THE RIVER CITY NEWS MORE COVINGTON NEWS THAN ANY OTHER SOURCE
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After years of planning and waiting the River's Edge at Eastside Pointe development will finally get underway. Thursday morning's groundbreaking was attended by Covington city leaders, the developers from Atlanta-based Integral, the Housing Authority of Covington, Eastside neighborhood leaders, and Congressman Geoff Davis whose daughter was inspired to become a teacher at the community center at Jacob Price which is what River's Edge replaces. "When I was first running for Congress I would park my car in the church lot (across the street) because my daughter who was in high school at the time answered an ad to teach reading in the community center," Davis said. "It inspired her to become a teacher."
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Today, only the community center building still stands as a final reminder of the 1930s housing project that sat on the site for nearly eighty years. River's Edge will be different in construction and philosophy. Instead of serving as a strictly-subsidized housing project, Integral has designed a mixed-income community in which some homes will be voucher-based while others are market rate. No one will be able to tell the difference. "The transformation taking place, the success in housing is based on relationships and investments in personal relationships," Davis said. "What's represented in this change in Covington is ultimately an investment in people and the cash will follow."
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Today, only the community center building still stands as a final reminder of the 1930s housing project that sat on the site for nearly eighty years. River's Edge will be different in construction and philosophy. Instead of serving as a strictly-subsidized housing project, Integral has designed a mixed-income community in which some homes will be voucher-based while others are market rate. No one will be able to tell the difference. "The transformation taking place, the success in housing is based on relationships and investments in personal relationships," Davis said. "What's represented in this change in Covington is ultimately an investment in people and the cash will follow."
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FOR BACKGROUND ON RIVER'S EDGE, SEE THESE PREVIOUS REPORTS:
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PHOTOS FROM FRIDAY'S GROUNDBREAKING:
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LOTS MORE PHOTOS BELOW, JUST CLICK THE LINK!
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