The Loftus Lumber redevelopment into a mixed-use facility that is expected to transform a long-vacant block between downtown and the New Bohemia District is slated to get a final green light Tuesday from the Cedar Rapids City Council.
The leader of Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says whether carbon dioxide pipelines are approved in the state will be the difference between “life or death” for Iowa’s ethanol industry. Critics say ethanol is on its way out because of electric vehicles and tax credits should go to actual emission reductions.
Seven agencies in Linn and Johnson counties have received $1.3 million in state and federal funding for programs that house and help homeless individuals. The Iowa Finance Authority last week
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.
Some Iowa beekeepers make extra money by taking their bees to California for the winter to pollinate almond trees, but that work is literally drying up with the drought on the West Coast.
Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids’ largest employer, won a $42 million, 30-month U.S. Air Force contract to develop a so-called very low frequency, or VLF, receiver for its strategic mission capability.
The project involves remodeling the terminal from Gate 4 to Gate 9 and extending the concourse. There also will be more amenities, including an outdoor patio area, more space for mothers and babies and an indoor area where service animals and traveling pets can go to the bathroom.
Winter’s imminent arrival means things are about to get busy at A-Maizing Kustoms, where Lynn Williams helps customers prepare their snowmobiles for the season.
Representatives of multinational ingredients maker Ingredion and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 100G plan to continue meeting next Monday and Tuesday, in hopes of resolving a strike against the Cedar Rapids facility that’s now in its 13th week.
Uptown Marion received a $100,000 Main Street Iowa Challenge Grant for the Davis-Draper Building from the Iowa Economic Development Authority, the district said Thursday.
Hy-Vee will close its more than 285 stores for Thanksgiving Day for the first time in its history, the West Des Moines-based retailer said
The two largest U.S. pharmacy chains announced agreements in principle Wednesday with and a bipartisan group of attorneys general to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the
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