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Local team’s $100M proposal advances for prime CR site

Project view looking northeast from Second Street West and Second Avenue. CREDIT: 1st & 1st LLC By CBJ News Staff news@corridorbusiness.com The Cedar Rapids City Council has...

May brought sharp slowdown in Iowa home sales

  By CBJ News Staff news@corridorbusiness.com May home sales in Iowa fell 19.8% according to the Iowa Association of Realtors, as the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown...

Tom Cilek’s New Best Friend: Kate Moreland

If you’ve been in the Corridor business community for even a short time, you already know Tom Cilek. He’s a vice president at a...

Ronald McDonald House director leaving for Heritage

Barbara Werning By CBJ News Staff newsroom@corridorbusiness.com The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois (RMHC-EIWI) board of directors announces the departure of Executive...

New program intends to drive over $1M in local spending

By CBJ News Staff news@corridorbusiness.com As businesses reopen, the Project Better Together team has created a new campaign to encourage and motivate local spending at Johnson...

The 4 P’s of selling a business

By Scott Bushkie | Guest Column Marketers will sometimes talk about the four P’s (product, placement, price, promotion) of selling. Known as the “marketing mix,”...

Kirkwood poised for more growth

CBJ Editorial  With the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions of higher education are facing some of the biggest challenges they have seen in generations. Our higher education sector...

Rally C.A.P. initiative aims to spur a comeback

By Adam Moore adam@corridorbusiness.com The rally cap, a time-honored superstition for baseball fans hoping for a come-from-behind win, is coming to the business arena with the...

Greenfield projects coming down the pipe in Cedar Rapids

By Dave DeWitte dave@corridorbusiness.com Despite the recession caused by COVID-19 – or partly because of it – the Corridor has seen a surge of interest from...

$100M project gets recommendation for Kingston site

First & First West site (left). CREDIT City of Cedar Rapids By CBJ News Staff news@corridorbusiness.com A city of Cedar Rapids project review panel is recommending the...

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