Business Notes for March 16, 2025

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor. Information and photos can be submitted at https://www.thegazette.com/business-notes/submit/

New hires

Mallory Richardson, DNP, has joined MercyCare Internist Associates of Iowa.

Justin Hoff, CDFA, SHRM-CP has joined Emergent Architecture as chief operating officer.

Other News

Small business of the week: U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, last week announced The Brick Kitchen of Buchanan County in Eastern Iowa as her small business of the week.

In October 2020, Nate and Shelly Whited purchased and restored the historic, all-brick King’s Hall built in 1876. Inspired by a love of cooking and spending time in the kitchen with their children, they opened The Brick Kitchen in May 2021. In April 2023, they expanded operations with an instructional kitchen for demonstrations and hands-on cooking classes. This May, The Brick Kitchen will celebrate its fourth anniversary.

Ernst, chair of the Senate’s Small Business Committee, is naming one exceptional small business of the week in each of Iowa’s counties during this congressional session.