Iowa City council revokes preferred status for hotel project
City Council strips College Plaza Development of preferred developer status for a 15.5 million downtown hotel shop complex and names Plaza Towers Associates as the new preferred developer. Plaza Towers must show binding terms with Armstrong's department store and a hotel operator within 60 days, with an estimated 14 story hotel and 75,000 square feet of retail space.
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Iowa City
John Hayek
College Plaza Development Inc
Hayek
College Plaza
Armstrong's
Plaza Towers Associates
Old Capitol
Armstrong’s
Armstrongs
Hieronymus
Plaza Towers
Sheraton Corp
Iowa City Highlander Inn
Dubuque
Burlington
Linn
Capitol Streets
Old Capitol Associates
Stoner's costly bid tops Iowa primary spending
Millionaire Tom Stoner spent about 1.22 million in the Iowa Republican primary, 885000 from his pocket, making it the most expensive in state history. Grassley spent roughly 737000, with 749000 raised. Culver has 846314 raised and 757277 spent.
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Des Moines
Tom Stoner
U.S. Senate
Stoner
Marcia Brown
Iowa
Charles Grassley
John Culver
Grassley
FAA to probe aircraft miss over Iowa City
FAA will investigate a near mid air collision over east central Iowa involving Trans World Airlines Flight 329 from Chicago to Denver and a military trainer 15 miles west of Iowa City at 2 30 pm Both aircraft were at 31000 feet A controller on duty requested relief after the alarm Involved computer generated alerts and an unknown interruption officials will determine if human error or computer malfunction caused the near miss.
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UPI
Federal Aviation Administration
Iowa
FAA
Neal Callahan
Trans World Airlines
Chicago
Denver
Offut Air Force Base
Omaha
Neb
Andrews Air Force Base
Washington
Callahan
Aurora
Kevin Byrne
TWA
St. Louis
Byrne
Air Force
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