With financing coming together for the amphitheater planned for Marion’s Lowe Park, project supporters expect work to start next spring. Project supporters will launch a fundraising effort Friday morning to match a $150,000 grant from the Cedar Rapids-based Hall-Perrine Foundation. “This is pretty important for us, because we’ve got to match that” as a condition [...]
continue »
City, county and community leaders broke ground Wednesday on the city’s new downtown Riverfront Amphitheater that, when complete in 2012, will be part outdoor entertainment venue and part flood-protection levee. On community wish lists for more than a decade, the $8.2-million amphitheater project is expected to feature more than 50 events a year and attract [...]
continue »
Construction will begin in September on the NewBo City Market, after supporters tonight announced the fundraising campaign had reached nearly halfway to its goal. The Cedar Rapids City Market board kicked off the Growing Cedar Rapids capital fundraising campaign tonight, June 29, 2011, at Water Tower Place, 900 Second St. SE. “If you help us build it, [...]
continue »
CEDAR RAPIDS — For well over a decade, a changing cast of city leaders, including four mayors, has pushed to build an outdoor amphitheater here along the Cedar River. The flood of 2008, it turns out, helped to transform long-talked-about plans and pretty drawings into reality — a riverfront amphitheater that is part floodable entertainment [...]
continue »
Leaders of the NewBo City Market are confident they will reach their local fundraising goal of $3 million, spurred by an $800,000 pledge from the Hall-Perrine Foundation. The foundation’s lead gift was announced at a press conference Tuesday at the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce. “This is an exciting day for us,” said Sarah [...]
continue »ENERGY COLLABORATION: McKinley Middle School, Kirkwood Community College’s Students in Free Enterprise chapter, Alliant Energy and Sam’s Club partnered to reduce energy use at McKinley. Grants, audits and advice led to more efficient practices and installation of energy-efficient lighting and motion-sensing switches. It’s a collaboration that other schools can learn from. lll COMMUNITY BENEFACTOR: The [...]
continue »William Whipple, a longtime Cedar Rapids civic leader and philanthropist, died Tuesday at Meth-Wick Community at the age of 96. Whipple was president of the Hall-Perrine Foundation in 1981 when, after Cedar Rapids voters had voted down five bond referendums to finance a new public library, he announced a $6.8 million challenge grant. The community, including school [...]
continue »HORSE SENSE: The Iowa Equestrian Center at Kirkwood Community College has been so successful that officials are looking at major expansion. Booked nearly every weekend with events, the center draws tens of thousands of exhibitors and spectators, many from out of state, who spend money in our community. Expansion funds will be largely from private [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS – The Hall-Perrine Foundation has awarded the Block by Block neighborhood-revitalization group a grant for $750,000, Block by Block announced on Thursday. Block by Block is in the process of helping owners renovate homes in more than 20 flood-hit blocks in Cedar Rapids. The organization is run by Four Oaks family services agency [...]
continue »
