As the sun rose on Friday, the smiles on jack-o-lanterns went from welcoming or menacing to pointless or pensive. What is to be done with carved pumpkin now it’s November? Fortunately for puzzled pumpkin owners, the Iowa Children’s Museum (ICM) has an answer: splat them. On Saturday, the museum is bringing its annual Jack Splat […]
Chauncey Swan Parking Ramp
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Iowa City Farmers Market will have in-person shopping this year
In-person shopping will be back when the Iowa City Farmers Market opens at the Chauncy Swan Parking Ramp for its 2021 season on Saturday, May 1. “Of course, we’ll have safety precautions in place,” Tammy Neumann, the city’s coordinator for the market, told Little Village. “We’re asking that people wear masks, there will be handwashing […]
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Your Village: Where did The Chauncey get its name?
“What kind of name is Chauncey for a building?” In most cities, The Chauncey would be a wonderful or terrible name, depending on personal preference, but in Iowa City it is historic. Like the park and the parking ramp next to it, the new 15-story mixed-use building borrows its name from Chauncey Swan, who’s been called “the father of Iowa City.”
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The opening of The Chauncey will change how people park at the Chauncey Swan Parking Ramp
The opening of The Chauncey, Iowa City’s newest high-rise building, is changing the rules at the city’s Chauncey Swan Parking Ramp, the city’s Transportation Services Department announced on Friday morning. “The City of Iowa City’s Transportation Services Department has been working to best accommodate current users and new neighbors.”
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Rummage in the Ramp returns for 13th year
There are many things that define Iowa City in the summer: festivals, street sales, slow-moving quiet afternoons. One of the least glamorous of these seasonal trends is the surge of movers in and out of dorms and apartments as the fall semester approaches. Unwanted items make their way out of living rooms and into dumpsters, or onto the curb to be claimed.
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Iowa City looking to add public art celebrating the farmers market to Chauncey Swan Parking Ramp
Art isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when most people think about parking ramps, but neither is fresh produce and the Chauncey Swan Parking Ramps is home to the Iowa City Farmers Market. The Iowa City Public Art Program is now accepting submissions for a project to add art to the farmers market experience.
