A developer has big plans for a historic downtown Burlington building, but it will need grants to carry them out. If those grants are awarded, the Typewriter Shop will join a growing list of commercial and residential development projects in the downtown area.
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WEST BURLINGTON The Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission board of directors recognized Dick Keith of Burlington and West Point Mayor Paul Walker with awards for outstanding contributions to their communities at its Jan. 28 meeting in West Burlington.
Keith received the LeRoy Meyer Award for his hard work in restoring and redeveloping area historic buildings.
SEIRPC says on its website, As a volunteer and board member with the Heritage Trust, Mr. Keith was instrumental in the adaptive reuse of the decrepit building at 213 Valley in Burlington, transforming it into Preservation Station, the organization’s architectural salvage resale shop.
Venerable buildings still dominate Gardner s skyline today
Mike Richard
Special for The Gardner News
If there was ever a shot that perfectly depicted West Gardner Square on a lazy summer day in the 1960s, the accompanying photograph taken by Charles Clark could be it.
Shoppers are seen milling in and out of the many stores, while downtown regulars lean on a streetlamp or congregate in the doorway of a barber shop to share in the daily news.
A Gardner police officer, safely stowed in his traffic box, directs the cars motoring along through the square.
This was downtown Gardner in the mid-1960s when Edward’s Rexall Drugs, City Barber Shop, Gardner Office Supply, Priscilla Candy Shop, Sandrof’s Men’s Furnishings, Davis Hardware, First National Bank, J.C. Penney and Gardner Cooperative Bank filled the Pleasant Street store fronts.