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6306–6410 WEST JEFFERSON BOULEVARD AT COVINGTON ROAD · THE SOUTHWEST SIDE
Covington Plaza is the community center of the Jefferson Boulevard retail trade area, the nearly 2.6 million square feet of west-side retail that the interstate built. The center itself measures 182,051 square feet on 25.5 acres at the southwest quadrant of Jefferson and Covington, and its brokers' 2025 offering memorandum — the document of record for its current state — describes a grocery-anchored community center at 91.8 percent leased and calls it, in the trade's plain words, "a pillar of the Fort Wayne community." The grocery anchor was a Kroger for the center's first decades; The Fresh Market, the specialty grocer, opened in the plaza in September 2010 in the LoopNet tenant record, and holds the anchor with an Office Depot, a Planet Fitness, and a Pet Supplies Plus beside it. Covington never pretended to be a destination; it is the daily-needs center of the city's most affluent quadrant, and its history is the quiet one — no opening-day headlines survive in the sources reached, and no closing ones either. It is carried in this section on the strength of its documented scale and its 2025 sale offering, which froze its record in unusual detail; its founding date is a stated gap, to be settled from the directory runs at the public library.
Sources:
- Mid-America Real Estate Corporation, Covington Plaza investment offering (2025) — 182,051 square feet; 91.8 percent leased; the Jefferson Boulevard trade area at nearly 2.6 million square feet.
- Broad Reach Retail Partners / LoopNet, Covington Plaza listing — 6382 West Jefferson Boulevard; the anchor lineup; The Fresh Market's September 2010 opening.