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Iowa Mutual Lofts: Old building gets set for new life

By: Dave Thompson|February 19, 2024
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    • The Todd and Kelly McManus family watch as the first sledgehammer hit is made Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, to a wall inside the former Iowa Mutual Insurance building in DeWitt, Iowa, during a “wall smashing” ceremony to usher in the building’s renovation into new apartments. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

    DEWITT, Iowa – Luanne Smith recently took a sentimental journal through the former Iowa Mutual Insurance building here.

    She worked in the massive, two-building complex at 509 9th St. for 36 years before it closed in 2019. On Friday, Feb. 16, she was part of about 50 people who gathered inside a first-floor room in the old structure to help usher in a new era for…

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