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Salsa Guy Cafe to open second location at former Wendy’s

The Salsa Guy Cafe, which opened its first brick-and-mortar location in August 2024 after nearly two decades of selling salsa, burritos and other items at the Downtown Farmers Market, is now expanding to a second location. Cafe owner Tim Palmer…

Martin Equipment earns national John Deere award

John Deere Construction and Forestry recently presented the Onyx Circle Award to Martin Construction, which…

Martin Construction John Deere award

Gourmet cookie chain Dirty Dough opens first Iowa location in Cedar Rapids

Dirty Dough has now opened its first Iowa location in southwest Cedar Rapids, offering another…

Michael and Adam Gibbs Dirty Dough Cedar Rapids

The Corridor Business Journal is hiring a reporter and special project manager

The award winning Corridor Business Journal, a bi-weekly business publication in Iowa’s Creative Corridor, seeks…

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Iowa Credit Union Foundation invested more than $165,000 in Iowans’ financial well-being in 2023

The Iowa Credit Union Foundation (ICUF), the philanthropic arm of the Iowa Credit Union League,…

Iowa Credit Union Foundation

Hy-Vee partners with Variety “Round Up” fundraising campaign

Hy-Vee is partnering with Variety to again conduct a “Round Up at the Register” campaign…

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Mandela Washington Fellowship set to return to the University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (UI) announced Wednesday, Feb. 7, that it has been selected as…

2023 Iowa Mandela Washington Fellows participating in a community event hosted by the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council in July 2023.

University of Iowa partners with Des Moines-based health insurer

The University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie College of Business’ innovative risk management and insurance…

The University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business.

GreenState Credit Union names Vikram Israni as CEO

GreenState Credit Union announced the appointment of Vikram Israni as its new chief executive officer,…

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SBA approves $11.5 million in Iowa small business loans in January

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has released its monthly loan approval figures in Iowa…

U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) loans Iowa

Application deadline extended for Choose Iowa Dairy Innovation Grant Program

Dairy farmers have two extra weeks to apply for the Choose Iowa Dairy Innovation Grant…

USDA Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Xochitl Torres Small, looks at cows at Austin Schulte Dairy farm in Benton County. CREDIT USDA

Hiawatha telecom firm BDC Group closing, lays off 35 workers

BDC Group Inc., a Hiawatha telecom firm founded in 2015, has laid off 35 employees…

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Kirkwood students see more efficient path forward in elementary education with UI partnership

Kirkwood Community College students now have a simpler path to completing their teaching education through…

The University of Iowa has partnered with Kirkwood Community College to help early education students more efficiently transfer to the four-year institution.

Iowa City Municipal Airport receives $442k grant for solar panel project

The Iowa City Municipal Airport received a $442,800 grant to help fund the cost of…

An airplane taxis down the runway at the Iowa City Municipal Airport. The airport received $442,800 to fund a solar project that will reduce electric utility costs in half.

Investors sue ADM after company placed CFO on leave amid accounting probe, SEC investigation

A group of investors has moved to sue Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) after the company…

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Economic Forecast Luncheon offers insight for 2024

Economist Phil Levy returned to the Corridor Business Journal’s 2024 Economic Forecast Luncheon as a…

Jack Evans, Chair of the Board of the Hall-Perrine Foundation, moderates a panel of Corridor business leaders at the CBJ's 2024 Economic Forecast Luncheon.