Articles Tagged: Wellington Heights

At 9:06 p.m., officers were dispatched for a report of shots fired in 1400 block of Washington Avenue SE, which is also the southern boundary of Huston Park.

There were 120 shots-fired incidents known to Cedar Rapids police in 2022. Use these maps to see if any were near you. Three addresses in the data were listed more than once.

The Cedar Rapids City Council gave the green light last week for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Corridor to rezone property where the organization is building a permanent location.

Wellington Heights Community Church has been known as a “church without walls” since it began in March 2020. With renovations complete on the former Paul Engle Center, the group now has a physical space to serve the southeast Cedar Rapids neighborhood.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Corridor has announced a project to build a permanent location for the club in southeast Cedar Rapids.

With a paint-by-numbers scheme, the new mural on the former Paul Engle Center repositions the neighborhoods values while garnering ownership and community buy-in.

Soon after police arrived at the scene, a victim with a single gunshot would to the shoulder arrived at a hospital by private vehicle.

On Tuesday, about two blocks away from Saturday’s shooting, officers found a juvenile who was suffering from a gunshot wound in his foot.

The city of Cedar Rapids will use about $1.39 million in federal funds to renovate the vacant property in Wellington Heights and create up to 25 affordable residential units before turning ownership and maintenance over to a nonprofit.

Cedar Rapids police say the man stole over $10,000 worth of copper from the abandoned Colonial Centre building.

A fire-damaged house in Wellington Heights was finally demolished Thursday and will be replaced with a new, three-bedroom home that will be sold to a lower-income family. The house is being built by Hope Community Development Association.

The Wellington Heights Community Church has launched its “Building Hope” fundraising campaign to help fund its move into the neighborhood after operating with no permanent space for over a year.

The daycare center in Wellington Heights will provide school supplies to families in need

Some residents’ opposition to a proposed resource center and emergency shelter in Wellington Heights swayed the City Planning Commission against recommending rezoning of the vacant property at 1500 Second Ave. SE for future city use.

Cedar Rapids is considering acquiring a vacant building to turn it into a Community Resource Center with a shelter component, but residents fear the facility would destabilize the neighborhood and the city would not provide proper supportive services.