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Moen’s Iowa City Park@201 high-rise set for Nov. 1 completion: Daily Iowan Reader, January 23
Also inside: Iowa City City Council votes to endorse school district's proposed diversity policy, cold strikes UI, state livestock, Iowa rally falls short in OSU loss.
Moen’s Iowa City Park@201 high-rise set for Nov. 1 completion
Marc Moen started changing the shape of the Iowa City skyline more than a decade ago, and now three new prominent projects in the downtown area are quickly taking shape, the earliest of which will be completed this fall.
On schedule and on budget at a price of $10.7 million, Moen Group’s Park@201, 114 S. Dubuque St., tower is set to open Nov. 1, real estate developer Marc Moen told The Daily Iowan Tuesday. All foundation work has been completed and the mezzanine and second floors have been poured.
The 14-story glass high rise will feature a two-floor full service Buzz salon, three floors of high-end “class A” office space on the second through fourth floors and 26 residential units from floors five through 14.
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“We’re just hearing from a lot of people who are excited about the energy it will bring to the Pedestrian Plaza,.” Moen said. “It attracts folks to live downtown which is something very important to the vitality of downtown.”
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