Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

The buyer, Arnold Motor Supply in Spencer, has 70 stores in Midwest and in planning for its upcoming centennial.

Marion business also clears out homes after a death

Flood, pandemic have kept Cedar Rapids comedy club on the move.

Local developers were awarded city financial incentives this week to build a $4 million Brown NationaLease facility in southwest Cedar Rapids that will create 10 jobs. The company leases a space in North Liberty.

Communities in the Cedar Rapids metro are partnering in a new initiative to attract people from out of state to live and work in the region, setting aside past feuds over jobs in an effort to address the worker shortage.

Cedar Rapids native Brad Fowler launches PG-13 pet project.

Several housing projects in the Corridor will get a boost from workforce housing tax credits recently awarded by the state — adding 458 residential units online in the area, with Cedar Rapids projects driving the influx of housing.

With its first full-service restaurant opening in a decade, Rio Burritos is expanding on specialties and coming into its own authenticity with northern Mexican street food.

As Boulder Tap House moves to a freestanding location, Olde Brick House will take its place.

A longheld citizen dream to help Latino families prosper in Iowa is coming to life as Linn County residents have come together to form a new nonprofit that aims to help Latinos succeed.

No structural integrity issue has been identified with a downtown Cedar Rapids building where bricks fell onto the sidewalk from the facade of a four-story building this weekend, Building Services Director Kevin Ciabatti said Monday.

Also, electric vehicle charging fee in Iowa City gets second approval

Of Iowa’s 940 cities, about 200 have city managers or administrators. In many cases, these managers are the highest-paid, or among the highest-paid, city employees. But what do they do and how do they run a city? Here’s a look at a day in the life of several Iowa city managers and how they balance everything from disaster response to patching potholes.

An initial inspection of the building on 2nd Street shows no “deeper structural concerns at this time,” but the owner of the building has 48 hours to get an assessment of the structural integrity of the four-story building. In the meantime, the sidewalk on 3rd Avenue, where the bricks landed, will remain closed.

Outdoor patios on Third Street SE. Food trucks on the Second Avenue Bridge. Those are some of the ways consultants envision Cedar Rapids could enhance connections between its downtown and the district’s surrounding the urban core.