Articles Tagged: Economic development

Its plans include smaller-format stores that are 20 percent cheaper to build but still offer comfortable seating, drive-thru service and mobile order pickup capacity.

Communities across the United States are reading about — and learning from — each other's battles against data center proposals that are fast multiplying in number and size.

At a Jones County roundtable, Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Feenstra argued Iowa can lure manufacturers back from overseas by pairing newly passed federal tax incentives with cheap, reliable energy, faster broadband buildout and high-tech workforce training.

The former ACT campus in Iowa City is set to undergo a transformation that will remove an existing building, add commercial development and create new senior housing. Future phases of the development plan may include more housing, the first pediatric palliative care center in Iowa and other spaces.

Cedarhurt Senior Living facility to have a mix of unit types, including memory care

A first-of-its-kind analysis outlines how CID can leverage its workforce, industry partners and development-ready land to compete with established aerospace regions.

Community members across Johnson County are coming together to visualize the economic future of three hyper-local districts in Iowa City, Coralville and North Liberty.

The move comes amid a surge in commercial interest in the county’s unincorporated areas.

The first phase of the 10-acre “Gather Iowa” development, designed to connect Coralville and Iowa City, is moving forward after the city council approved site plans for the project.

Iowa’s only nuclear plant could return — and with it, hundreds of high-wage jobs, a multi-year construction surge and new housing demand. Palo and Center Point businesses, union leaders and city officials say the economic ripple would be significant.

Two years after acquiring full ownership of a historic building in Uptown Marion, Jamie and Kelsie Hoth have turned the dilapidated Owen Block Building into a thriving space with three businesses and several upper story apartments.

The site plan for the first building in North Liberty’s planned Urban Central District has been approved.

Mark Seckman joined the Marion Economic Development Corp. two years ago and is now working to set the community up for continued success.

Also in the notebook, Iowa’s unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent in July

Also, Fairfax will host an open house for city administrator finalists