The date for some of Iowa City’s best-known downtown buildings to be sold at a sheriff’s auction has been set. In April, GreenState Credit Union foreclosed on four properties owned by real estate developer Marc Moen and business associates. The properties — The Chauncey (404 E College St), Plaza Towers (221 E College St), Park@201 […]
Iowa City real estate
Is this building a landmark? Iowa City Council will discuss status of Pagliai’s Pizza home at Tuesday hearing
There will be a public hearing during the Iowa City Council’s formal meeting on Tuesday about whether to designate the 19th century building and longtime home of Pagliai’s Pizza as an Iowa City Historic Landmark. The push to have the building at 302-316 E Bloomington Street landmarked began after the building was listed for sale […]
Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission to hold public hearing on landmark status for building that’s home to Pagliai’s Pizza
The Iowa City Historic Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing during its Thursday evening meeting on the possibility of conferring landmark status on the Northside building that’s been home to Pagliai’s Pizza since 1969. The building at 302-316 E Bloomington St, properly known as the Slezak-Holub-Skarda Building, dates back to 1876 and, despite the […]
The 148-year-old building that’s home to Pagliai’s Pizza is up for sale; Iowa City officials to consider granting it landmark status
The address 302 E Bloomington St may not sound familiar to many, but almost everyone living in Iowa City, and generations of students and visitors, know Pagliai’s Pizza. The 19th century building in Iowa City’s Northside Neighborhood has been home to the iconic pizzeria since the ’70s, and its future is a topic for discussion […]
Beadology, a fixture on E Washington Street for 15 years, has moved
“My life pattern has been every 10 or 15 years, a new opportunity presents itself to me,” Karen Kubby said, taking a break from packing up inventory at Beadology. At various points in her life, Kubby has been a high school science teacher, the executive director of the Emma Goldman Clinic and a member of […]
Iowa City asked to approve a $9 million TIF for a Ped Mall-adjacent apartment complex
At its Wednesday meeting, the Iowa City Council Economic Development Committee (EDC) will consider a proposed nine-story apartment building that Tailwind Group wants to construct behind the three Ped Mall buildings that stand between the Graduate and the Wells Fargo building.
Your Village: What’s happening on the lot next to Big Grove Brewery and Taproom?
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Your Village: How did B’jaysville Lane get its name? (Updated)
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Your Village: What’s happening to the empty building at the corner of Linn and Market?
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Your Village: What’s being built across the street from Hamburg Inn No. 2?
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The Iowa City Bike Library will be moving, again
The Iowa City Bike Library will be moving again. “This is going to be our third move in as many years,” Cody Gieselman, the Bike Library’s executive director, said.

