Monthly Archives: June 2020
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...