Articles Tagged: Flood Recovery & Protection

The weeds may grow a lot taller this summer in some flood-damaged parts of Cedar Rapids. The city has taken …

MOUNT PLEASANT – A flood protection measure largely discarded because of the cost and disruption to the communities it would …

Life for the historic, 180-foot-tall Sinclair plant smokestack looks a little more promising. The City Council Tuesday night voted to …

The City Council formally approved the hiring of Allan Thoms as interim city manager on Tuesday night. The initial contract, …

The congregation of Salem United Methodist Church will soon have a new home, but it comes as another church decides …

It’s becoming clear that some of the 1,300 or so flood-damaged homes slated for a City Hall buyout can be …

The big push to demolish hundreds of buyout homes in one flood-damaged Cedar Rapids neighborhood is now at the halfway …

The first downtown restaurant to reopen after the June 2008 flood is mulling whether to close, even though business has …

Some 130 mucky, moldy, flood-damaged homes have not been touched since the June 2008 flood, even as neighbors in some …

Giddy isn’t quite the word, but it almost is. On Wednesday, the City Council met over lunch to try to …

Cedar Rapids flood recovery director Greg Eyerly will see if some of the $21 million in federal funds coming for …

The flood-damaged Ground Transportation Center bus depot on First Street and Fourth Avenue SE isn’t going to be a bus …

Dan and Sandy McSpadden waited almost two years to again sit on the front porch of their home at 1342 …

Cedar Rapids Historic Preservation Commission members will meet with Mayor Ron Corbett at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to discuss preservation plans …

The reality of cost could be putting pressure on the City Council to return the city’s bus depot to the …