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Ben Limmer, CEO and managing director of QC MetroLink talk about upcoming plans for rail service Thursday, April 16, at Bally's Quad Cities Casino & Hotel. PHOTO CREDIT TODD WELVAERT

Q&A: Ben Limmer, MetroLINK’s new CEO and managing director

For the first time in more than four decades, there’s a new leader at the helm of the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK). Iowa native Benjamin Limmer stepped in as MetroLINK’s new CEO and managing director on…

Hyprlift founder recalls tower search

It was a heavy lift – locate a building that is tall enough to test…

James Hutchinson

Hyprlift to revive KONE tower to test next-gen elevator

On the cusp of bringing its next-generation elevator system to reality, Silicon Valley startup Hyprlift…

The former KONE tower in downtown Moline — built 60 years ago by Montgomery Elevator — will be converted into a testing hub for Hyprlift’s new ropeless elevator known as HYPR-1. CREDIT HYPRLIFT

Moline momentum: Old building being turned into new apartments

A former newspaper office building will soon help spur economic momentum in downtown Moline by…

McCarthy-Bush has new CEO; 5 generations guide company

Mike Bush says these are “exciting times” for the Davenport-based McCarthy-Bush Corp. That excitement is…

Members of the McCarthy-Bush Corp. team include, from left, Ben Bush, sales and business development director for Oertel Metal Works; Maureen (Bush) Roe, project contracting and risk manager for McCarthy Improvement; Mike Bush, the new CEO of the McCarthy-Bush Corp.; and John Bush, construction controller with McCarthy-Bush. CREDIT MCCARTHY-BUSH CORP.

Wallace’s rises from the ashes with new greenhouse

Kate Terrell stood in the middle of a new section of greenhouse at Wallace’s Garden…

Seminar crowd told: ‘The rail project is happening’

A Chicago-to-Moline passenger rail line might become a reality in a few years. A new…

Ben Limmer, CEO and managing director of QC MetroLink talk about upcoming plans for rail service Thursday, April 16, at Bally's Quad Cities Casino & Hotel. PHOTO CREDIT TODD WELVAERT

Fair Oaks Foods ramping up at new QC plant

Nearly five years after a national search for an expansion site led Fair Oaks Foods,…

Some five years after beginning its search for an expansion site, Fair Oaks Foods, LLC, quietly began operations recently at its new Davenport plant in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center.  CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

New clinic will help create a healthy community

MUSCATINE, Iowa – Tom Bowman looked over the new Community Health Care, Inc. (CHC) Muscatine…

Open Bay will be ‘designed around people’

 Wendy and Chris Hermann are getting ready to make their longtime dream come true by…

Stone’s Throw: Tubas made the old-fashioned way — by hand, on a farm, one at a time

On a remote farm in rural Camanche, Iowa, Lee Stofer, Jr. is part of a…

Lee Stofer with two of his restored tubas in his instrument shop in Camanche. CREDIT JONATHAN TURNER

$400M energy plant project looks for state approval

Plans to bring a $400 million energy generating facility to farmland in rural Scott County…

Rene Gellerman plans departure; United Way stands ‘momentum ready’

In 2018, Rene Gellerman took the helm of United Way Quad Cities when the organization…

The United Way Quad Cities staff show their fun side surrounding President and CEO Rene Gellerman (center).

Smoke clears for construction of Rock Island dispensary, gas station

Using phrases such as “a long road,” “emotional ups and downs” and “rough ride,” developers…

Bondurant leads the state in certified sites

The poster child of the Iowa Certified Sites program clearly would be the City of…

The Amazon Fulfillment Center project in Bondurant was completed in less than 12 months. The speedy development was due, in part, to it being an Iowa Certified Site. CREDIT SHIVE-HATTERY

Iowa’s Certified Sites accelerating ‘speed to market’

Amazon. Conagra Foods. Fair Oaks Foods. Google. Kraft Heinz. Microsoft. QTS. Nestle Purina. Saber Industries.…

This map shows the location of Iowa’s Certified Sites. CREDIT IEDA