CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Some offices in downtown Cedar Rapids have been collecting dust for years. Vacancy rates along the I-380 corridor have nearly doubled in the last four years.
Piles of old keyboards, dust covering the floor and employee paperwork left abandoned for years fill the empty spaces.
“It’s been hard. Everything that I’ve had empty from COVID is still empty,” said Steve Emerson, an architect and developer who owns several buildings in downtown Cedar Rapids…