High rise apartment buildings, trendy lofts and upscale condominium proposals displayed on Tuesday night indicate downtown Cedar Rapids could start to see an influx of new housing units. The Downtown Cedar Rapids Urban Living event, put on by Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance, attracted about 170 people, from young professionals to empty nesters hoping to [...]
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Economic development groups hope a new partnership with a site selection company it hopes will boost business interest in the Corridor. The Iowa City Area Development Group (ICAD) and Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance, two of the seven counties that make up Iowa’s Creative Corridor, hired Site Location Partnership (SLP) to represent and market the [...]
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My parents used to engage in this whimsy, before gasoline prices started their climb to the moon earlier this century, of slipping into their car on an unpremeditated sunny afternoon to “go for a drive,” as they would call it. And before they’d decide to turn around to head home, they’d often find themselves several [...]
continue »In an effort to continue to “fine tune” communication and target specific member audiences, the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance announced their new website, www.cedarrapids.org. The site includes a member directory and sponsorship opportunities. The organization, which was founded in Jan.2012, functions as a gathering of economic and development efforts in the Cedar Rapids Metro- [...]
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NEW HIRES Matt Vogl (see photo) joined Terry Lockridge & Dunn as a staff accountant. Vogl graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in accounting and finance. The Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance hired Amy Grotewold (see photo) as the Leadership and Innovation programs specialist and Barbra Snitker (see photo) as the Economic [...]
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The vice president of research and economic development at the University of Iowa is promising a “much more muscular” relationship with state and local economic development organizations. “We’ve been a partner for years, but we’ve got to do some new things and we’re going to make a difference in new ways,” said Daniel Reed in a keynote speech Thursday for the Cedar [...]
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This is the part of a series of occasional stories that will take a look at the efforts, issues, discussions and decision makers involved in marketing the Corridor as a single economic region. Ask H. Foster Pettit about the benefits of adopting unified city-county government and he quickly points to what he calls “one-stop shopping” [...]
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After hearing local business leaders wonder how to better reach area students, DaLayne Williamson and her colleagues on the board of Workplace Learning Connection, decided to do something about it. “We needed to facilitate a conversation,” said Williamson, the Workforce Business Services director for the Iowa City Area Development Group. As a result, the inaugural [...]
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NEW HIRES Mark McMahon (see photo) was named head golf professional at Ellis Golf Course in Cedar Rapids. McMahon was previously head golf professional at Waveland Golf Course in Des Moines. Jesselyn Racine (see photo) joined RecBob in Cedar Rapids as color commentator, doing public relations. Amy Geiger (see photo) joined Mercy Medical Center in [...]
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This is the first in a series of occasional stories that will take a look at efforts, issues and decision makers involved in marketing the Corridor as a single economic region. The big question is this: Would the different government entities and economic-development agencies of the Corridor work better together? The retired CEO of [...]
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