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Eastern Iowa Airport director Marty Lenss stands for a portrait in the newest addition to the airport in November. CREDIT RICHARD PRATT

Eastern Iowa Airport director Marty Lenss named Most Influential Leader for 2025

For Marty Lenss, the Corridor Business Journal’s Most Influential Leader for 2025, the passion for flight came at a relatively early age — in the eighth grade, to be exact. “My interest in aviation would have occurred with my first…

10 for 10 in 2025: Eastern Iowa Airport sets tenth straight monthly passenger record in October

The Eastern Iowa Airport (CID) recorded 146,643 passengers in October, marking the tenth consecutive month…

Eastern Iowa Airport Cedar Rapids sculpture

Iowa WARN post: 30 of CRST’s job cuts will be in Cedar Rapids

About 30 of the 300-plus job cuts announced by Cedar Rapids-based CRST will impact drivers…

CRST Cedar Rapids headquarters

UScellular donates $5,000 in equipment to Boys & Girls Clubs

UScellular donated $5,000 worth of electronics, furniture, art supplies, sports equipment and games to Boys…

UScellular Boys & Girls Club donation

VenuWorks names Robert Thomas executive director for Cedar Rapids venues

VenuWorks has appointed Robert Thomas as executive director overseeing its Cedar Rapids facilities, the company…

Robert Thomas VenuWorks

University of Iowa risk management program third largest in country, according to national publication

Business Insurance magazine has ranked the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business as having…

Pappajohn Business Building University of Iowa

UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital tops Iowa rankings for second consecutive year

UnityPoint Health – St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids has been named the top hospital…

UnityPoint -- St. Luke's Hospital Cedar Rapids

Five Corridor companies receive SBA loans in November

The U.S. Small Business Administration has released its monthly approval figures for loans in Iowa…

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

CRST to ‘redeploy’ portion of OTR fleet, cut more than 300 employees

Cedar Rapids-based CRST announced this week it planned to “redeploy” a portion of its Over…

CRST truck

Cedar Rapids Planning Commission declines to recommend rezoning request for proposed McDonald’s along Mount Vernon Road

After hearing concerns from several neighborhood residents about noise, traffic and other issues, the Cedar…

Proposed McDonald's site plan

Iowa Finance Authority awards $12M for regional housing trust fund programs

Regional housing organizations across Iowa will receive $12.2 million in state grants to address affordable…

House key

Community Savings Bank to open new downtown Cedar Rapids location Dec. 9

Community Savings Bank announced its relocated downtown Cedar Rapids branch at Cedar River Tower will…

Community Savings Bank Cedar River Tower

New rowhome development eyed for Tiffin

A new rowhome development is being eyed for a five-acre lot at the corner of…

A preliminary rendering of the Grove Park development.

Event center proposed for Tiffin’s Park Place development

A proposed event center for the city of Tiffin passed its first hurdle on Tuesday,…

A rendering of the event center proposed for the city of Tiffin.

IPERS is ‘secure and guaranteed for life,’ CEO says in Cedar Rapids stop

Despite proposals floated this summer to dramatically revamp the funding structure of the Iowa Public…

Greg Samorajski IPERS CEO

Iowa Finance Authority awards housing tax credits for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City projects

The Iowa Finance Authority awarded more than $11 million in federal housing tax credits Tuesday…

The Atheneum Cedar Rapids