Small Business News

Cedar Rapids business All Out Rampage is space for trashing cellphones, computers and other appliances with baseball bats, golf clubs and sledgehammers, located at 371 Edgewood Road NW.

Cedar Rapids Marketplace’s Cherie Edilson to speak at next 1 Million Cups

For four years, Frank the cat has been the best sales clerk at Next Page Books bookstore in Cedar Rapids’ NewBo neighborhood. “He’s become the face of the bookstore,” store owner Bart Carithers says.

Child care aid is one of four new initiatives designed around one of NewBo City Market’s core missions — to support start-up businesses and their owners.

The Iowa House went two different directions Monday as it extended more local control to cities to deal with public nuisances, but took away local control from public and private schools, day care centers and colleges by prohibiting them from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations.

Unique Events in Cedar Rapids is a “one-stop shop” for weddings, including event planning, coordination and design, a flower shop, rentals, D.J.s, photo booths, a lighted dance floor and more, the owner says.

Small businesses are the heartbeat of the community and drive our local economy. This portrait series by Gazette photojournalist Savannah Blake highlights people of color and their businesses in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City area.

Scribe Stationer, a stationery shop in an old Cedar Rapids firehouse in the New Bohemia neighborhood, promotes an “authentic way to communicate.”