Real estate list shows signs of housing recovery
The August Improving Markets Index shows Cedar Rapids and Iowa City on the recovery list with rising permits and rising home prices. Cedar Rapids permits rose 2.1 percent since December 2011 and Iowa City 0.7 percent since May 2010, with Freddie Mac price indices up in both markets.
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U.S. Census Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Freddie Mac
Joan Tiemeyer
Greater
Census Bureau
Ames
Iowa
States
District of Columbia
Eastern Iowa firms team on bio mass plant markers
Two Cedar Rapids and Dubuque companies collaborate to make plant markers from a corn cob and recycled plastic blend. MCG BioComposites supplies the bio mass compound while Anova Inc. in Dubuque handles injection molding for marketable biomarkers and other products.
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Cliff Jette
Gazett Anova
Ryan Burk
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
MCG
Anova Inc
Dubuque
Sam McCord
Cedar River Garden Center
Palo Anova
Burk
Anova
Pizza Wholesale opens Cedar Rapids center for Hunt Brothers Pizza
Lexington distributor Pizza Wholesale of Lexington expands into the former Hubbard Ice site in northwest Cedar Rapids to serve Iowa and five other states. The facility adds seven jobs, stores 112000 cubic feet of subzero space and 6300 square feet of dry storage with seven deck doors in Hubbard Industrial Park. Hunt Brothers Pizza, with 7,000 locations in 28 states, cites Midwest growth. COO Daryl Schutz notes 80 new customers in six months and nearly 200 for the year.
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Hunt Brothers Pizza
Iowa
Lexington
Hubbard Ice Co
First Street
Illinois
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Midwest
Pizza Wholesale
Hubbard Industrial Park
Nashville
Tenn
Daryl Schutz
Cedar River
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
CBS Time Warner Cable row heats up in Day 7 spat
CBS executives accused Time Warner Cable of coercive terms during a New York hearing as a blackout affects over 3 million subscribers in cities like New York and Los Angeles. Both sides resumed talks with Sunday looming over PGA Championship coverage.
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Time Warner Cable Inc
Netflix Inc
Amazon.com Inc
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New York
Los Angeles
Rory Whelan
Martin Franks
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Amazon
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Franks
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