Panel asks: What does downtown Cedar Rapids need next?

The First Avenue Building in downtown Cedar Rapids. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) You must remember this: Downtowns, and really not all that long ago...

June 16, 2022
3:44 AM

The First Avenue Building in downtown Cedar Rapids. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) You must remember this: Downtowns, and really not all that long ago, were bustling, beehive-like centers with movie houses and live performance theaters — and often more than one! — restaurants, bars, even nightclubs, newsstands, small shops selling shoes or hats or flowers smack next to tall department stores rising up from their sidewalks, sandwiched by offices hosting all sorts of businesses. And at all hours of daylight and well into the evening, people.

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