[CPEO-BIF] "Brownfield redevelopment paying off in Cedar Rapids, " Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield redevelopment paying off in Cedar Rapids
City investment in blighted areas slowly but surely seeing results

Rick Smith
Cedar Rapids Gazette (IA)
June 23, 2013

CEDAR RAPIDS — If they say imagining it is the easy part, don’t  
believe them.

Groundbreaking for Geonetric Inc.’s new $5.5 million, three-story  
office building is slated for this summer at a spot at 415 12th Ave.  
SE in the emerging New Bohemia arts and entertainment district south  
of downtown.

Eric Engelmann, president/CEO of Geonetric Inc., says the creative  
vibe of New Bohemia suits his growing 70-employee-strong firm — which  
builds websites for hospitals across the country — better than the  
northeast Cedar Rapids office park where the company now leases space.

...

Less than 20 years ago, the spot where Geonetric is building was home  
to the shuttered Iowa Steel plant, across the street from another  
industrial relic, the Iowa Iron Works plant.


...

For the entire article, see
http://thegazette.com/2013/06/23/brownfield-redevelopment-paying-off- 
in-cedar-rapids/

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Brownfields mailing list
Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org