At the moment I feel like almost all the vertical stuff of any degree in Iowa is happening in Iowa City. The university is in the middle of a $1 billion building boom right now, and a decent amount of residential and commercial stuff in the pipeline. Growing up there in the 80's and 90's it was almot all 1-3 story buildings, but the past 5-6 years or so and the city has just got nuts for 5+ buildings. I was dizzy when I went back a few weeks ago at the number of tower cranes all over the skyline. Never saw anything like that growing up.
The floods of 2008 were tragic at the time, but it's sparked by far the biggest building boom on the University of Iowa campus in history. $1 billion in projects underway as we speak all over the place, many of them state of the art replacements of art and music buildings/venues, as well as the ever booming hospital and research complex. The economy is really on fire there right now. The metro has grown from around 90,000 in 1990 to around 135,000 today. Unemployment around 3% today with a 19% increase in the number of jobs over the past 10 years.
Residential/Commercial:
14-story apartment complex just finished up downtown.
20-story apartment complex teeing up for construction now.
7-story residential project south of downtown.
6-story office project under construction downtown
6-story hotel project along with other multi-story retail projects underway at River Landing. 500 hotel rooms, 2 new bar and grills, sushi restaurant, wine store, Iowa's largest brewery, a department store, Mediterranean restaurant, a gym, spa and conference center.
5-story mixed-use building downtown just wrapped up.
Two 5-story residential projects nearing construction
University projects:
$357,000,000 12-floor 480,000 square foot childrens hospital under construction.
$176,000,000 new 200,000 square foot, nearly 2,000 seat auditorium under construction.
$152,000,000 10-story new 200,000 square foot School of Music building under construction downtown.
$130,000,000 8-floor 333,000 square foot Biomedical Discovery building under construction.
$77,000,000 new 126,000 square foot Arts Building replacement.
$70,000,000 6-story new pharmacy building.
$53,000,000 10-floor 500 student dorm nearing completion.
$35,000,000 new 108,000 square foot football operations facility.
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So I was out biking with Jesus last week...
Last edited by MayorOfChicago; May 16, 2014 at 8:39 PM.
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