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The Rowat Lofts project has just been completed, marking the first new residential project in a largely industrial redevelopment district known as the Market District, which is located adjacent to downtown and rapidly in the path of redevelopment. This district will be a new urban mixed-use neighborhood that will be predominately lower-scale buildings in the 5-6 story range to help protect the viewshed of the State Capitol, especially from the AAA Iowa Cubs baseball stadium.

This project has 162 dwelling units and sits on the home of a former cut stone company. As seen in a few of the photos below, the building this site was old and not in good condition, but was still in operation until the developer of this project bought the property a few years back. The crane derrick and some of the stone that was on the old building has been repurposed into this project to pay homage. An adjacent housing project is being constructed next door on the site of a former recycling company, but that will be fodder for another post later.









What was on the site previously.




Market District Master Plan- Vision for the redevelopment area