Alliant hopes to build $700 million gas plant in Marshalltown
By Pat Shaver
IOWA -- It’s not easy to predict the future when it comes to energy use.
Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL), a subsidiary...
Local experts discuss healthcare reform, Supreme Court decision
By Gigi Wood
CEDAR RAPIDS -- Businesses and industry experts in the Corridor are preparing for changes accompanying federal healthcare reform.
Several discussed healthcare reform and...
IDT: 25 years of biotech boon
By Gigi Wood
CORALVILLE -- They create the building blocks of research, right here in Coralville.
Integrated DNA Technologies is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year,...
New venture offers business credit repair
By Pat Shaver
CEDAR RAPIDS -- For Fred and Susan Dumbaugh, their initial business ventures may have remained successful if it weren’t for catastrophe.
The couple, of...
Local entrepreneur alters business plan as a way to give back
By Conrad Swanson
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA -- In his junior year of high school, Muscatine native Tyler Finchum created a simple and unprecedented business.
Farm Manuals...
Hit the ground running
By Pat Shaver
NORTH LIBERTY -- Brian and Kris Tharp’s North Liberty business was a natural next step.
The couple established We Run, a specialty running...
Bata’s Restaurant opens in NewBo neighborhood
By Pat Shaver
CEDAR RAPIDS --Â A father-and-son team is opening a new restaurant in the New Bohemia neighborhood in Cedar Rapids.
Anthony Bata and Nick Bata,...
Best of the Corridor: Week 2
The 2012 Best of the Corridor winners were announced in two sets. The first groups was printed in the July 16 issue of the...
Best of the Corridor: Week 1
The 2012 Best of the Corridor winners were announced, in part, in the July 16 issue of the Corridor Business Journal.
The week one winners...
StoneBridge Promenade development down to three vacancies
By Gigi Wood
NORTH LIBERTY -- The paint isn’t dry.
But North Liberty’s newest development, StoneBridge Promenade, at 650 W. Cherry St., is nearly full of...