CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — To longtime market-goers, nothing will replace the Riverside Roundhouse, but construction is underway on a new “roundhouse” where homes once stood along Czech Village.
The city held a ceremonial groundbreaking last week for the LightLine Loop, a $13.84 million project that includes the roundhouse, a festival street, pedestrian promenade, gateway signage, a new 18th Avenue SW connection, 100-plus space parking lot and improvements to A Street SW.
A few homes remaining on C Street SW are just yards away from the new roundhouse, where construction began even before the groundbreaking.
The Riverside Roundhouse is shown after the 2008 flood, before it was dismantled to make way for a new location for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, seen in back. (photo/Cindy Hadish)…