The planned expansion at NewBo City Market has been delayed by unexpected construction costs.
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The planned expansion at NewBo City Market has been delayed by unexpected construction costs.
Approximately 100 employees at a Cedar Rapids packaging company have been told this week that their positions are being eliminated as the plant will close in early October.
NextEra representatives, during a meeting with nuclear regulators Thursday, said the Duane Arnold Energy Center near Palo, which closed in 2020, needs “a few major pieces of equipment” before it can restart, including cooling towers, the restoration of transmission lines, new offices, warehouse buildings and a new sewage treatment system.
New leader of company behind contentious pipeline proposal sends letters to landowners along the project’s route.
A Johnson County coffee brand is expanding quickly across Iowa after coming under new ownership.
State, city and company leaders spoke at a ceremony Wednesday celebrating a planned $50 million upgrade and expansion to Ingredion's operations in Cedar Rapids. The company will expand the production of industrial starches used in packaging and papermaking to meet growing demand. The starches use corn sourced entirely from Iowa.
Alliant Energy has said there are other potential locations being considered for a new power plant, but the company’s representatives declined to share those locations with the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission because disclosing the other sites could put the company in a “negative position from a cost perspective.”
The nation’s dwindling fleet of nuclear plants — including the shuttered Duane Arnold plant in Palo — is being seized upon as one of the most viable ways to quickly feed tech firms’ growing thirst for electricity to power the giant data centers needed for AI projects.
A report from the Center for Rural Affairs found that funding from the Inflation Reduction Act had a “significant impact” on the adoption of conservation practices in Iowa.
Iowa Democratic U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Scholten held a campaign event Monday at a central Iowa farm to highlight his federal agriculture policy proposals.
Bayer, the biotech company and manufacturer of Round Up, has substantially increased its spending on lobbying in Iowa since the introduction of a pesticide labeling bill in 2024.
A redevelopment project for decades, the Cedar Rapids neighborhood’s significant investments in recent years has neighborhood at inflection point nearly 20 years after the 2008 Flood which brought it renewed vibrancy.
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