The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Corridor held a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday for their new Busse Unit, located at the corner of Washington Ave and 16th Street SE in Cedar Rapids. The building will be the organization’s first stand alone home since their previous home was destroyed in the 2008 flood.
The $16 million “Next Stage” project will build a 300-person-capacity indoor event space for public events and fairs, an outdoor stage for free and ticketed events that can hold audiences of 500 to 10,000 people, an open-air pavilion, an honor garden, and more.