Articles Tagged: Infrastructure

Phase one of streetscape work along the busy street mostly complete. The rest should wrap up by year’s end.

As a result of congressional approval of the bipartisan infrastructure package, Iowa DOT officials expect the five-year highway program to grow from $3.6 billion to about $4 billion.

One pedestrian bridge opened in 2021; second one is half-way done

Seventh Avenue, which has been under construction since July, opened Friday. Other than work on the 11th Street plaza area, Phase 1 is complete. Phase 2 is scheduled to begin in the spring.

Section was closed for installation of pedestrian bridge

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley says his vote represented “the people and the needs of Iowans.” He was the only member of Iowa’s congressional delegation to back the trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure package.

The new twin spans of the Interstate 74 bridge between Iowa and Illinois are being delivered more than a year late and $74 million over bid.

Iowa will receive roughly $5 billion over five years in new federal funding under the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure bill.

So Eastern Iowa’s Republican members of Congress, 1st District Rep. Ashley Hinson and 2nd District Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted against …

Grassley also heard support from the chambers of commerce of the 10 or 12 largest Iowa cities and the Iowa Farm Bureau as well as commodity groups representing cattlemen, pork producers, and soybeans and corn growers.

Seventh Avenue-10th Street junction will be closed six weeks

The central Iowa city has spent the past 14 years reestablishing itself after Maytag, the washing machine manufacturer that at its peak employed more than 3,000 people, left the city in 2007.

The bridge, the first of its kind in Iowa and eligible to be added to the National Register of Historic Places, will be torn down in April

Cara Briggs Farmer, a local artist and business owner, has spent the last few years designing public art pieces for various communities in Eastern Iowa

Some smaller communities saw populations barely grow or shrink. Central City, Alburnett and Walford are all in the midst of upgrading water treatment facilities, streets and more to prepare for any future growth.