Knoxville’s downtown was assessed this week by members of the Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Downtown Resource Center. Members of the team gave a presentation of their findings Thursday at the Grand Theater, touching on issues ranging from buildings, housing, and business development. Jim Engel with the group says there are two key areas that need the most attention.
“There are a lot of organizations in town, and they all have different focuses. We think they need to pull together more, they need to define what they do. They need to work together, they need to have meetings together and see how they all fit into the community development jigsaw puzzle. The other thing that we knew would be an issue in Knoxville is that there’s a building stock here. Some great architecture, some of it’s hidden behind aluminum. It’s been like that for 50 or more years, so you can’t see what’s back there. Some of the buildings are in bad shape. We wanted to put an emphasis, on t
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By DAVID PITT
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) â The administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in his first visit to Iowa joined state and city officials Tuesday to announce the future plans for a sprawling former industrial site at a high-profile spot on the edge of downtown Des Moines.
The 43-acre property bordered by the east bank of the Raccoon River and a key city boulevard was classified as a federal superfund site in 1983. That designation entitled the property for federal funding under a 1980 law that allows the EPA to clean up contamination and force the responsible parties to remove contaminants or reimburse the government for doing so.