CEDAR RAPIDS — Without comment or mention that the matter was on its agenda, the nine-member City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved how it will spend most of the remaining revenue from the 1 percent local-option sales tax. In approving the spending measure along with an assortment of minor matters as part of [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — The city of Cedar Rapids will try to be the first in line to seek flood-protection help from a new state fund created by the Iowa Legislature and approved on Thursday by Gov. Terry Branstad, Mayor Ron Corbett said shortly after the governor acted. Corbett said the City Council will vote [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Residents and officials got their first good look at a proposed $4.55 million city Animal Care and Control facility on Wednesday. “I wish it was open right now,” said longtime animal activist Audrey Rahn. “I’m 94 years old and I’m afraid I won’t get to see it.” Rahn and about 40 [...]
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A crew from Kelly Demolition in Mount Vernon is demolishing commercial buildings in the 400 block of First Street SW in Cedar Rapids. Read more at Business380.com
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CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids architect says the community is recovering at a faster pace from the June 2008 than Grand Forks, N.D., which was devastated by a 100-year flood in 1997. “When city officials visited Grand Forks, they were told that it would take a minimum of 10 years for the community to [...]
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The city-owned riverfront spot next to the First Avenue bridge that has been home since 1996 to the sculpture, the Tree of Five Seasons, is on the verge of getting a new name, Five Seasons Plaza. Daniel Gibbins, the city’s parks superintendent, on Monday noted that tree and the park around it are in the process [...]
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The Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency’s landfill at 1954 County Home Rd., Marion, is closed today because of high winds. The Pollution Prevention Center and the recycling drive-through at the same location remain open and regular business hours apply ( 7 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) The compost and recycling facility at 2250 A Street [...]
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Restoration of the Paramount Theatre, damaged in downtown Cedar Rapids flooding in 2008, advanced Friday when part of the marquee was removed to be enhanced with modern technology and lighting. Here’s a look at the downtown mainstay: PARAMOUNT HISTORY Opened Sept. 1, 1928, as the Capitol Theatre; for one year it provided a live stage [...]
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says having more space free in the Missouri River’s reservoirs would have reduced, but not eliminated, last year’s flooding. The corps says in a new report released Friday that flooding still would have caused widespread damage along the Missouri last year because of the massive volume of water that [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Costs to the city for basic infrastructure fixes are colliding with costs for flood-recovery work and those for not-universally-popular projects like the city’s hotel and Convention Complex in a way that will require the city to sell more new annual bond debt than any time in its history. Even so, the City [...]
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