Iowa City will conduct a two-week trial this month of new parking meter styles downtown. Equipment from five companies will be tested April 15-26 to help determine the best options for new meters, according to a news release from the Iowa City Downtown District. Parking is a common complaint of downtown patrons, and the city [...]

UPDATE: Construction is now planned to start this summer on two new city parking ramps in the downtown. Work on a 500-space ramp, across First Avenue East from the city’s Convention Complex and hotel, is expected to start first, with work on a second, 550-plus-space ramp, on Second Street SE between Sixth and Seventh avenues [...]

  By Maura Pilcher   —–     “The Pensacola Parking Syndrome is a term of the trade used to describe a city that tears down its old buildings to create parking spaces to entice more people downtown, until people no longer want to go there because it has become an empty lot.” (Michael Kimmelman, [...]

Lowering the required number of parking spaces in the city’s medical district won’t necessarily spare a historic church from the wrecking ball, a fate a renowned historian calls ironic. First Christian Church, 840 Third Ave. SE, will be demolished once a 60-day hold placed on the permit by the Cedar Rapids Historic Preservation Commission expires [...]

  CEDAR RAPIDS — Drivers who invest in fuel-saving “green” vehicles will find that ownership qualifies them for a parking bonus at some lots in Cedar Rapids. Two new Linn County office buildings and two new engineering buildings at Rockwell Collins offer reserved parking spots close to the entrances for alternative fuel or gas-electric hybrid [...]

The city has started its search for a partner in a multimillion-dollar parking facility project that would include residential and commercial space. The city has sent out a request for proposals from private developers for the residential and commercial space in a multi-use parking facility that could cost $48 million to build. The parking ramp [...]

Parking-rule violators at Iowa State University tend to pay larger fines for their infractions than at the other two state universities, which results in ISU collecting double the parking ticket revenue. ISU and the University of Northern Iowa generated more money from parking fines last year than did the University of Iowa, and for ISU [...]

AMES — State regents on Thursday approved a University of Iowa plan to buy two properties on Melrose Avenue and Melrose Place and to raze some properties in that area to build a parking lot, despite a neighborhood association’s request that the board delay the decision for more study. UI officials will buy the two [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Cedar Rapids Downtown District on Monday unveiled the first of 40 multi-space parking pay stations, which are replacing the traditional space-by-space, change-only parking meters on a post in the core of the downtown. The first group of pay stations have been activated in the block around Greene Square Park and in [...]

The Cedar Rapids Downtown District reminds community members and media to attend a press conference announcing the official launch of “Park Cedar Rapids” on Monday, October 10 at 1:30 p.m. along 3rd Avenue SE in Greene Square Park. The press conference will detail progress on a variety of parking initiatives, including new communication tools for [...]