Marissa Payne

The Linn County Board of Supervisors in September will take three votes to adopt new ordinance language with tighter regulations governing utility-scale solar applications as a pause on new projects nears its expiration date.

NewBo City Market is preparing to undergo a $2.5 million project to transform the inside of the facility with community spaces, more room for businesses and a second-floor mezzanine.

The city of Cedar Rapids has opened the newly relocated and reconfigured skatepark after building a detention basin as part of the permanent flood control system. The facility is now entirely made of concrete and features 28 obstacles -- a variety of quarterpipes, wedges, ledges and more.

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.

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.

Mark Seckman will assume the role of president of Marion Economic Development Corp. starting Sept. 5.

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.

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.

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.

Ethan Prentice, a senior at Xavier High School, said he was motivated by wanting to help people and “our community.” The work was his Eagle Scout project.

Matthew 25 has developed a Manufactured Home Disaster Recovery Playbook as a resource that can be used throughout the U.S. to help residents living in manufactured homes recover from natural disasters like the 2020 derecho.

The city of Cedar Rapids is trying again to seek a massive grant — $56.4 million — from the federal government to reconstruct the Eighth Avenue “Arc of Justice” Bridge over the Cedar River.

The city of Cedar Rapids has finalized a $10 million deal to buy land from Rick and Marsha Stickle to build a flood control levee around Cedar Lake — marking a key step to move forward with completion of the city’s network of flood protection.