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Kent gives historic Muscatine building a ‘new burst of life’

By: Dave Thompson|June 4, 2025
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    • Visitors look at a large photo of women working in the McKee Button Co. building in Muscatine, Iowa, during a tour of the renovated building on Tuesday, June 3. The building, now named McKee Plaza, is home to Kent Worldwide’s consumer brands division headquarters. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

    MUSCATINE, Iowa –  Angie Lewis looked over the former McKee Button Co. building near the downtown district in this community. The old building is getting a new life as a Kent Worldwide division headquarters, and the Muscatine woman could not be happier about that fact.

    “I’m just so thankful this building isn’t gone. You know, our…

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