Will downtown Cedar Rapids see a retail renaissance?

Cedar Rapids business development leaders are under no illusions that the city’s downtown core will return to its retail heyday.

Gone is the era when parents from around the region would bring their wide-eyed children to large-format stores like Armstrong’s, Killians or Mays Drug for a bustling day of holiday shopping, or business professionals would come to clothiers like Foreman & Clark or Seifert’s to flesh out their…