Dayton, Kentucky, wants to be the hottest riverfront destination you've never considered

The much-anticipated 2015 opening of Manhattan Harbour, a cluster of luxury homes along the Ohio River, gave way to four years of relative silence on Dayton's riverfront. When Beth Huntley and her husband moved there in 2018, their friendly row of houses was bordered on either side by vacant spans of grass. “When we first purchased, it was quiet around here the first summer,” she said Thursday. It still is, but Dayton City Administrator Michael Giffen said growth is coming fast.