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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

An Iowa landscaping contractor, already barred from state and federal projects, now stands accused of dodging upwards of $1 million in taxes.

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Iowa Contractors Construction 68

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The $59-million, 146,000-sq-ft Iowa State University Student Innovation Center was designed to be flexible. Unlike so many buildings on campus, the SIC was not defined by one college, user group or entity as the sole occupant.

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Business Facilities

JULY 2, 2019

Iowa has always been an agricultural powerhouse, so it’s no surprise the Cornhusker State is a leader in bioscience with 1,266 firms in the sector, from startups to global leaders in R&D. Read: Bioscience: A Cash Crop In Iowa at BusinessFacilities.com.

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JULY 1, 2020

billion Council Bluffs Interstate System Program is approximately two-thirds of the way toward achieving its goal of modernizing the highway system serving metropolitan Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Neb.

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Iowa Omaha 69

Construction Dive

AUGUST 14, 2023

Major data center operators continue to show interest in markets with ample land and water supply, low natural disaster risk and favorable energy costs.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Recreating the benefits of a natural shoreline is more complicated than it seems, but the Iowa Court and South Green Living Shoreline Project in Little Egg Harbor and Tuckerton, N.J., used innovative techniques to install new features to restore damage from Hurricane Sandy and protect from future storms.

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Iowa Green Innovation 69

Business Facilities

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Kim Reynolds welcomes Apple CEO Tim Cook to Iowa, as a new Apple data center is announced. Apple announced it will build a new $1.375 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa, which will be 100 percent powered by wind energy. To Iowa’s credit, Iowa saw this and had the vision to work with the utilities and so forth so it could happen. “To

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Business Facilities

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Read Iowa Is Built for Business on Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. With certified sites of up to 600 acres available for shovel-ready projects and innovative targeted tax credits, the Hawkeye State is soaring above the competition.

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Iowa Innovation Site Transportation 67

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MARCH 26, 2018

From cloud computing to biorenewables, Iowa has reinvented itself as a cradle for innovation. Read: Iowa: A Cradle For Innovation at BusinessFacilities.com.

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MARCH 7, 2019

The Iowa Certified Site program streamlines the site selection process and offers multiple options, including a green business park, industrial sites and parks, and mega sites. Read: How An Iowa Location Can Improve The Bottom Line at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Iowa Site Green Industrial 46

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JUNE 7, 2021

$6,000 welder stolen from Bettendorf, Iowa, work site by couple looking for scrap.

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Iowa Site 74

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MAY 21, 2020

The Iowa Dept. of Transportation has proposed a five-year, $3.6-billion billion transportation plan, more than half of which would be devoted to road and bridge projects.

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Construction Dive

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The project announcement closely follows Google’s other recent commitments to expand its data center facilities elsewhere in the country, such as in Ohio and Iowa.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

An Iowa landscaping contractor's former vice president inflated the value of its invoices to give the company a no-interest loan. It was caught when a geofoam supplier complained to the Iowa Department of Transportation that it hadn't been paid.

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MAY 14, 2018

Eight years ago, when the state of Iowa moved to replace its outdated women’s prison, Warden Patti Wachtendorf was explicit about her vision for the new facility. “I I wanted a prison that didn’t look like the stereotypical prison,” she recently recalled. “I I wanted it designed for women, not men.”.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A northwest Iowa rancher was so fed up from his cattle repeatedly escaping that he mailed a bill to the pipeline company for the costs of constantly chasing his animals. A landowner grew so frustrated with Dakota Access Pipeline workers that she delivered a garbage bag to county supervisors full of metal debris collected from her fields.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

The Iowa Economic Development Authority and Governor Kim Reynolds have announced Apple plans to build a $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa.

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Iowa Infrastructure Plans 59

Business Facilities

APRIL 6, 2017

Iowa offers opportunities as far as the eye can see, especially in bioscience, advanced manufacturing and finance. Read BF Location Video: Iowa: Ready For Business on Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. See how your company could profit from our pro-business environment.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Read: Crystal Group Opens New Iowa HQ, Manufacturing Facility at BusinessFacilities.com. The designer and manufacturer of rugged computer and electronic hardware is creating 50 new jobs, increasing production at the Hiawatha, IA facility. .

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Iowa Economic Development Authority and Governor Kim Reynolds have announced Apple plans to build a $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa.

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Iowa Infrastructure Plans 50

Business Facilities

JULY 21, 2022

New canning lines in Emporia, KS and Dubuque, IA, and a new pet food distribution facility in Edgerton, KS are part of the pet food company's $500 million growth plan.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Read: Hormel Foods Creating 210 New Jobs With Iowa Expansion at BusinessFacilities.com. A major expansion of the company’s Burke Corporation manufacturing facility In Nevada, IA will result in an approximately $150 million investment.

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Construction Equipment

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

OSHA is investigating the death of a construction worker at Turtle Creek Wind Farm in Mitchell County, Iowa. The fatal accident occurred around 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, while the worker loaded equipment onto the site. The worker has since been identified as Joseph Hill of Minnesota. Mitchell…

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Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 16, 2016

More than 50 protesters briefly stopped construction at Dakota Access pipeline worksites Saturday in west central Iowa, and two were arrested.

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Business Facilities

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Iowa consistently earns high marks for its education climate. For many years, Iowa’s public high schools have had the nation’s highest graduation rate. Iowa ranks fifth in the nation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) degrees conferred per 1,000 residents. In addition, Iowa is second in the U.S.

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JULY 27, 2016

Army Corps of Engineers approved 60 river crossing along the proposed route of the Bakken Pipeline which runs diagonally northwest to southeast across Iowa. Opponents to the pipeline, Bold Iowa and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, plan to continue to rally in opposition.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Peyton Atzen, a 16-year old student at Southeast Polk High School in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, decided to fight a speeding ticket he received from an Iowa DOT officer, citing a 70-year old Iowa Supreme Court case that said DOT officers have limited ticketing authority that does not include speeding or arrests.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Designed and built by Gray Construction, Kraft Heinz’s new 382,157-sf meat processing and packaging facility in Davenport, Iowa occupies a 70-acre site in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center. The building’s floor construction consists of structural slabs while the wall construction consists of insulated metal panels.

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Iowa Office Site Industrial 63

Construction Equipment

JUNE 14, 2016

Although the Iowa Utility Board voted 2-1 last week to allow Dakota Access to begin construction on Iowa land where the company has all the necessary permissions, landowners Marvin and Bonnie Zoch and Marian Johnson, who own land in Cherokee County in the path of the pipeline, filed lawsuits saying Dakota Access and the pipeline developer did not meet (..)

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 23, 2017

Earlier this month, the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) board awarded direct financial assistance and tax benefits to five companies for job creation and expansion projects. Today, Crystal provides temperature-controlled warehouse and repackaging services to food processing companies, not only in Iowa, but around the globe.

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APRIL 12, 2016

Nine Iowa landowners filed suit Friday against the Iowa Utilities Board saying the planned underground crude oil pipeline to be built by Dakota Access LLC doesn't qualify as a public utility and should not be granted the use of eminent domain rights.

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Construction Dive

JULY 25, 2023

The Des Moines, Iowa-based company will build a pedestrian bridge and rental car lobby at the Orlando International Airport.

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Airports Iowa Infrastructure 105

Business Facilities

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Alcoa Announces Investment In Iowa Aerospace Manufacturing Plant appeared first on Business Facilities (BF) Magazine. Aerospace And Defense Archives Articles By Industry Articles By Location Articles By Topic Daily News Featured Post Iowa Manufacturing Online Features Plastics And Medical Devices U.S.

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Iowa Defense News Industrial 59

ENR Construction

MAY 29, 2023

Six-story Davenport apartment structure had been undergoing exterior brick wall repairs prior to partial collapse on May 28, with two people feared still inside and dead.

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Iowa Engineering 71

Construction Equipment

AUGUST 31, 2016

The Iowa Utilities Board has approved MidAmerican Energy's wind turbine project will generate enough power for 800,000 household by 2020.

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Iowa 57

ENR Construction

MARCH 9, 2021

A former flood control dam is retrofitted into Iowa's second hydroelectric dam.

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JUNE 7, 2021

$6,000 welder stolen from Bettendorf, Iowa, work site by couple looking for scrap.

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Iowa Site 41