07 Mar 2005

Patient Money

By Jeff Ignatius
When it opened for business in fall 2000, the 203-acre Eastern Iowa Industrial Center was meant as a catalyst for economic growth - able to attract large-scale industrial companies who had in the past not even considered the Quad Cities.
07 Mar 2005

NewVentures Center Open for Business

By Jeff Ignatius
While DavenportOne is a partner in the old-school Eastern Iowa Industrial Center, trying to lure large industrial businesses to create high-paying jobs in volume, it's also working at the new-economy end of the spectrum, trying to help startup businesses in high-tech fields get from the idea stage to market.
07 Feb 2005

Study Paints Grim Picture of Heart Health

By Jeff Ignatius
A recent survey conducted for the Genesis Heart Institute is providing the fuel for an outreach campaign for people to get their cholesterol and blood-sugar levels tested. The survey asked questions of 525 people in the Quad Cities area age 50 and older, discussing everything from demographics to health-care habits to risk factors for heart disease.
07 Feb 2005

Suing Over Sue

By Jeff Ignatius
In 1990, Peter Larson paid Maurice Williams $5,000 for some fossilized dinosaur bones that his team had found on Williams' property in South Dakota. It wasn't a speculative buy. "We knew it was really good," Larson said in a phone interview last week.
07 Feb 2005

New RME Director Brings a Wealth of Experience

By Jeff Ignatius
Lon Bozarth, the River Music Experience's new director, has worked in just about every aspect of the music business - outside of a museum. In the 1970s and '80s, he was vice president of operations for Sound Warehouse, overseeing 150 large record stores.
01 Feb 2005

Return of the Rock Island Riverfront

By Jeff Ignatius
Re-development of abandoned industrial sites is, by now, old hat. But what might be happening in the coming years in Rock Island is something fresh. What's unusual is that the Quad City Industrial Center isn't abandoned at all.
01 Feb 2005

Iowa Native Pardekooper Starts Fresh in Nashville

By Jeff Ignatius
When a promising roots-music musician leaves his home environs for Nashville, it's not difficult to guess the reasons: fame and fortune. But Iowa native Kelly Pardekooper left Iowa City for the country-music capital of the world with an entirely different motivation.
25 Jan 2005

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

By Jeff Ignatius
As the River Music Experience prepares for its second director in its first year, the roots-music museum has established a new mission - one that focuses on entertainment as much as education. A new director is expected to be named as soon as this week and might start the job by February 1.
11 Jan 2005

Sound and Vision

By Jeff Ignatius
On Saturday, Phil Dingeldein will serve as director of photography for a three-minute film, in what is the culmination of a Project Greenlight-like contest run by the Iowa Motion Picture Association. Three scripts and three directors were chosen, and over the course of an afternoon, all three will be filmed as part of a seminar in Des Moines.
28 Dec 2004

The Rhythm City Casino Hotel: Breaking Down the Numbers

By Jeff Ignatius
The magic number for the Isle of Capri is $207 million. That's the gaming company's estimate of the new money that the Quad Cities would receive over 10 years from its proposed expansion of the Rhythm City facility, which would include construction of a 10-story riverfront hotel and a 500-space parking ramp.

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