Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids City Council

An unnamed company is seeking financial incentives to build a massive $750 million data center in the Big Cedar Industrial Center that would create at least 30 new high-paying jobs.

Looking to bring recreational services to the rapidly growing southwest quadrant as an amenity for an increasing number of residents, the Cedar Rapids City Council opted Tuesday to support the construction of the College Community School District’s new YMCA.

Starting Monday, visitors to Cedar Rapids City Hall will now be asked to dial in using newly installed kiosks and won’t be able to access city offices without a staff escort as part of new lobby upgrades. Doors will stay open during public meetings.

The city of Cedar Rapids is planning for $10 million in improvements to streets connecting to where the Iowa DOT will reconstruct the Wright Brothers Boulevard and I-380 interchange.

The city of Cedar Rapids has acquired a prime downtown site for temporary use as parking during flood wall construction. In the long run, the $1.025 million property purchase will allow the city to seek redevelopment proposals to transform the vacant land.

Cedar Rapids’ quadrants have long distinguished different parts of the city, separated by the Cedar River and First Avenue. Curious Iowa investigates: How and why were the four quadrants established?

As Kingston Yard, the new mixed-use development in Cedar Rapids, brings new residential, commercial and other uses online and generate more traffic, the city of Cedar Rapids will soon bid an estimated $20 million public parking ramp.

Cedar Rapids City Council member Ann Poe was hit by a motor vehicle Friday afternoon while using the crosswalk at an intersection in Czech Village and is now recovering at home.

The agreement for school resource officers in Cedar Rapids schools remains largely unchanged after the City Council and school board this week approved keeping an officer stationed at five schools.

Future members of the nine-member Cedar Rapids City Council will likely have the option to opt into health and dental insurance benefits, but will still be paid as part-time officeholders.

Several commercial corridors in neighborhoods around Cedar Rapids have seen a growing concentration of alcohol and tobacco shops, prompting the City Council to OK more regulatory hurdles for businesses looking to set up shop in the increasingly residential city core.

Cedar Rapids signed off on tax incentives last week for an $8.5 million project to build two commercial facilities in the southwest side and toward Steve Emerson’s ‘Muskwaki’ building redevelopment.

Faced with the abrupt closure of Hy-Vee’s First Avenue NE location, Cedar Rapids City Manager Jeff Pomeranz said Tuesday that city officials and local stakeholders are studying all options to fill the grocery store and pharmacy gap Hy-Vee will leave when it shutters there in June.

In November last year, Cedar Rapids officials were assured that Hy-Vee had extended the lease of its First Avenue NE store another five years. Six months later, the company announced the store’s closure. Here’s how the city said negotiations went over the last year to keep Hy-Vee.

During the Cedar Rapids City Council’s 2024 goal-setting session Wednesday, members discussed the community's work in creating a desirable place to call home and the need for affordable housing options.