Moving beyond a bedroom community

For decades, the city of Robins has been the virtual epitome of a Corridor bedroom community.

Incorporated in 1911 and nestled between Hiawatha and Toddville, north of Cedar Rapids, the city’s population has nearly quadrupled in the past three decades, from 955 residents in 1990 to 3,353 in 2020.

Yet the growth has been almost exclusively residential, save the Robins Square commercial development north…