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It s not hard to get Gene Crosset talking about passenger rail, but don t call him a train nut. He prefers the title foamer. It comes from the foaming at the mouth when we see trains, Crosset said.
For decades, Crosset, a 78-year-old living in Davenport, has seen plans for an Iowa City-to-Chicago passenger rail line become a perennial conversation, only to disappear like a train heading into a tunnel.
The possibility exists again, after Amtrak released a map this month featuring new and enhanced lines, part of the $80 billion President Joe Biden designated for rail in his American Jobs Plan. The map included one bright blue line that dog-legged west from Chicago through Moline with a terminus in Iowa City.
The Hawk Eye
A California-based developer plans to transform the long-vacant building at 816 Valley St. into residential, retail and manufacturing space.
During a presentation Monday to the Burlington City Council, an architect with Iowa City-based firm Neumann Monson Architects said Kathy Hull of Long Beach, California, who has owned the former Dial soap manufacturing building since 2008, plans to redevelop the property to create 47 one-bedroom and 10 two-bedroom units on the 126,723-square-foot building s upper floors. We are trying to get units access to as much natural daylight and ventilation as possible, so they are oriented a little more in the horizontal direction, architect Dave Zahradnik said during a presentation of the floor plans.
Layana Navarre-Jackson
On Friday, Commissioner Layana Navarre-Jackson resigned, citing work schedule and family commitments. While Navarre-Jackson s resignation will not go into effect until the TRC s meeting on April 23, the council went ahead and found a replacement Monday morning. Daphney Daniel will fill her vacancy.
Commissioner appointments last until June 30, 2022.
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Iowa City Councilmember Janice Weiner, who worked on chartering the TRC, said she is hopeful its new version will come with some stability in membership. I don t have a crystal ball, but I do think that everybody is relaunching from a different place, whether they ve been on the TRC or are new, Weiner said.
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