Peck's Green Thumb ends as Edgewood corridor grows
After 37 years Peck's Green Thumb Nursery and Garden Shop on Edgewood Road NE in Cedar Rapids will close its retail store in early October. The landscaping business will move to an undecided new location while Edgewood Road evolves into a busy commercial corridor with offices and shops.
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Peck’s
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Stephen Mally
the Gazette
Green Thumb Nursery
Cedar Rapids
Edgewood Road Developments Signal Growth Across District
The area proposes a power retail center at Peck's Green Thumb Nursery site. The Fountains would use 34 million dollars for six buildings. Transamerica and AEGON plan to relocate staff from 42nd Street NE to C Street SW by late 2018. Berthel Fisher centers on retail space and the company headquarters. Westdale Mall redevelops into a 90 million open air shopping center. About 2,000 acres are reserved for future industrial parks and an intermodal facility.
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Transamerica
AEGON
Points of Interest and Developments on Edgewood Corridor
A list of nearby sites includes highway extension from Edgewood Road to Highway 30 near Twin Pines Golf Course and Riverview Place Condos at 3500 Edgewood Rd NE. Also noted are Educational Leadership and Support Center at 2500 Edgewood Rd NW Crestwood Ridge Apartments at 1200 Edgewood Rd NW, Popeyes at 3401 E Ave NW, Dunkin Donuts 1640 Edgewood Rd SW under construction, General Mills 4800 Edgewood Rd SW, and The Eastern Iowa Airport 2121 Arthur Collins Pkwy SW.
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Louisiana Kitchen
E Ave
General Mills
Iowa
Arthur Collins Pkwy
UIHC weighs regional partner with consultant study
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics weigh a regional collaboration option while paying consultant Dixon Hughes Goodman over 150000 to model financial scenarios for each choice. The study covers downside upside and middle cases for partnering or remaining as the sole state academic medical center.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Dixon Hughes Goodman
Atlanta
USHC
Tom Moore
Davis County Historical Society president at Bloomfield monument
Nancy Clancy, president of the Davis County Historical Society, stands with Erin Murphy of the Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau at a monument near Bloomfield Iowa.
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Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
Nancy Clancy
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Davis County Historical Society
Bloomfield
Iowa
Locals defend Confederate monuments at two Iowa markers
In Bloomfield and Bentonsport historic markers honor Confederate soldiers. At a rural fork five miles south of Bloomfield, a monument with three rock plaques and two flags recalls a northern Civil War Confederate advance, one of two such Iowa monuments noted by historians.
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