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A company is proposing that tips of its turbine blades reach 656 feet.

The city of Tiffin is one of the fastest growing cities in Iowa. Keeping up with the population increases requires a lot of planning on the part of city leaders, not only to ensure necessary infrastructure and services — like roads, police, and the fire department — are up to date, but also to ensure people’s cultural and recreational needs are met.

David Maier, the newly seated Cedar Rapids City Council member, is seen as a “connector” between community and city government. His campaign outreach across the city framed his approach to public service as being “a representative of the people.”

The recognized date that Cedar Rapids was officially incorporated is Jan. 15, 1849, making this year its 175th anniversary. Here’s how the city plans to celebrate.

A developer gained the city’s support to seek competitive Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Iowa Finance Authority to transform the derecho-damaged MAC building at 1220 Jacolyn Dr. SW into a $16 million affordable housing facility.

Crews will likely break ground this spring on Linn County’s Dows Farm “agricommunity” while the project’s development team re-imagines the farming element planned for the site.

The former GoDaddy building in Hiawatha has been sold to local developers, Hiawatha Economic Development Corp. announced. No redevelopment plans or sale price have been shared yet.

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A negotiation over the price to house federal inmates at the Linn County Jail may result in the termination of an agreement between the Linn County Sheriff’s Office and the United State’s Marshals Service.

A contentious plan to demolish Harrison Elementary School and build a new facility there will be paused for more community feedback, the Cedar Rapids Community School District’s operations official said Thursday, as a city panel sent the district back to firm up its plan.

Some residents of Westhill Village Apartments in northwest Cedar Rapids were ordered to vacate by the end of the month after an engineer flagged structural issues with the properties and determined they are “not safe to occupy.” Issues were found during regular city inspections.