Business

Wartburg College student Qinglun Li drives a Toyota Prius and Scion, although she owns neither. Instead, Li uses a car-sharing service offered by U-Haul in Waverly. It’s like renting a vehicle, but by the hour. Li, a college senior from China, said she uses the vehicles to run errands and doesn’t have to pay for [...]

Twenty minutes before the New York Giants and their 1,800 closest friends and family members landed in Indianapolis on Monday for a week of Super Bowl festivities, Heather Smith Friedman waited at the ready. Friedman, founding partner of Cedar Rapids’ de Novo Alternative Marketing, has been working for two weeks to coordinate hospitality and transportation [...]

  IOWA  CITY – A demolition team tore down the Red Avocado’s former building this morning to make room for a mixed-use residential/commercial development. According to city officials, demolition began this morning at the previous site of the organic vegetarian restaurant, which was located at 521 E. Washington St. #3. Owners said they received a [...]

The Cedar Rapids-based owner of Sonic restaurants in the Corridor and Waterloo has shut them down, putting the properties and the buildings on the sale block. Iowa Drive-Ins LLC owned and managed Sonics at 2905 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE and 560 33rd Ave. SW in Cedar Rapids, 604 Second St. in Coralville and 42 E. Tower Park [...]

Employees at an Earl May Nursery and Garden Center in Cedar Falls are trying to save two cats who call the store home. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that the company issued a memo to its 33 stores in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, forbidding pets in the stores. The memo, reported by the newspaper [...]

An Iowa-based grocery store chain that fired a 43-year-old mentally disabled man over 20 cents in bottle deposit receipts is now offering to rehire him. Kyle Dowie of Clive was fired from an Urbandale Hy-Vee store Nov. 2. Dowie’s mother, Jeanann Johnson, says he found the receipts from September in a coat pocket and tried [...]