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^ Ugh, thanks for the reminder of what could've been. Will be a long time before we see another 40-story building proposal in a city this size again. Here is the new $138 million federal courthouse being built on the riverfront downtown.

A few updated shots of the historic Warrior Hotel/Davidson Building restoration. Renovation is expected to be complete later this fall. Phase I of the new riverfront park has began construction The Bluebird Flats project is set to open this fall as well. Historical image of building

The District at 6th project is just wrapping up construction in the burgeoning Market District area on the fringe of downtown. This project has 213 dwelling units and some first floor commercial space. The project is entirely parked underground, and features a pedestrian plaza street that is open to the public to enjoy. Another new apartment project was constructed next door and opened up last fall, called the Rowat Lofts. The silver crane derrick you see in the center courtyard was repurposed from the old cut stone business that used to be on the site, which was a nice way to pay homage to the industrial character of the neighborhood. Pedestrian Street concept Another smaller 58 unit apartment project is also under constructon just to the south of the buildings shown above. This project is called The Connolly Lofts

The Surety Hotel project is a $40 million conversion of a classic office tower that was seeing its vacancy slide. The Aparium Group from Chicago is renvoting this building into a 138 room boutique hotel that will probably be one of the nicest hotels in the metro. There will also be a lounge and a restaurant space called the Mulberry Street Tavern. Completion is expected for this fall. Here's a before photo showing the windows that were partially enclosed. The new renovation has restored the original size to the window openings. Renderings of the hotel Current exterior progress

I'll start trying to gradually fill this in. Will start with the Bridge District, a master planned downtown residential community on reclaimed industrial land. Unfortunately, there are still a few warehouse holdouts. This development is being built in phases and will add about 500 new dwelling units to the East Village Neighborhood of DT. There are a few apartment projects that've been built, one on the way, and plenty of rowhomes that are selling for $425k and up. The plan for the area Level Apartments have just broken ground and will complete the multi-family projects in this development. Velocity and Verve Apartments have already been built Rowhomes and former train trestle repurposed to art The district coming together from afar

Sioux City is actually home to a Hard Rock Casino (no Hard Rock Cafe though), which is probably one of the most notable casinos in the State of Iowa. True to theme of historic preservation that you see in this thread, the Battery Building was converted to the hotel and guest services with an addition put on to host the gambling floor. They have a very popular outdoor concert series during the summer months that draws people in from across the region. The Hard Rock recently completed a large new parking ramp that has some street level commercial space.

The historic St. Luke's/Methodist Hospital is no longer being used for medical purposes and has been sold to a developer from Omaha that is proposing to convert the building to affordable housing units. Historic image That same developer has proposed a small restoration and conversion to residential with retail to the Hatch Furniture Building as well.

The Gilchrist Learning Center addition has recently been added to the Sioux City Art Center. Art Center

Cone Park is a new winter sports park that takes advantage of Sioux City's quite hilly topography. And the Pearl Street Park has been installed right across from the Sioux City Children's Museum, which caters towards children's play activities.

A new $20 million expo center is being built just south of downtown, and right off of I-29. This facility is targeted for events that aren't condusive to the existing convention center and arena complex. Existing Tyson Arena/Long Lines Events Center

Downown is somewhat isolated from the Missouri River riverfront with I-29 bisecting the two, but the city is envisoning a more lively riverfront in the future. Here are some of the conceptual renderings proposed so far.

The Virgina Square redevelopment consists of several projects on the south end of the city's primary warehouse district. There are several loft/mixed-use projects and a new Avid Hotel is currently under construction. Warehouses recently converted to apartments or condos 101 Virginia Avenue Rendering Avid Hotel Rendering

The Bekins Furniture building has been converted to 70 loft apartments and is now called the "Hons Apartments".

The Benson Building has been purchased and is just starting the development review process to convert the building to upper story apartments and first floor retail. Historic Image The old Municipal Theater Building is starting a conversion to a new $11.5 million regional theater/arts production space. Historic image Rendering

I have no idea it will still happen in the aftermath of coronavirus, but this lovely architectural gem of a hotel is slated to be renovated and convered to a Cambria Inn & Suites with 123 rooms. This has been a Hilton, a Clarion, a Howard Johnson, and a no-name independent hotel over the years, but currently sits empty as the quality of the building has continued to detioriate. The hotel is connected to the City's convention center. On the other side of the convention center, a new Marriott Courtyard Hotel just opened up earlier this year.

The historic Art Deco Badgerow Building has been purchased to the city, who will be doing an RFP for the adaptive reuse of the building. Future use yet unknown, but at least's it's in good hands now.

The Bluebird Lofts will convert the former Commerce/Motor Mart building into 77 apartment units with first floor retail space. The fifth floor roof garden will be converted to office space. Historic Building Image [/img] Rendering- yes there will be hundreds of new LED lights being installed on the exterior, just like the original building had. Progress The Urbane 1220 project will be a new 5-story, 56 unit apartment project in DT Sioux City, and will add 6,000 sq. ft. of commercial space.

I'm acknowledging that I may be posting to myself and that this forum doesn't get a lot of traffic, but I couldn't stand to see the Iowa subforum without any topics, so I'll try to fill some in as time allows. Anyways, Sioux City is a metro area that crosses into Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, and is the primary city of NW Iowa. Situated on the Missouri River and at the northern terminus of the beautiful Loess Hills land formation, the metro is has about 145,000 people in it with a CSA that is much closer to 200,000 people. The economy is heavy on food processing and manufacturing, but once had a much larger white collar job base when Gateway Computers, IBP, and Tetra Chemical Company were headquartered there. While a small city, much of the city proper is quite urban, gritty, and historic-- a marked opposite of the largely white collar, quickly growing and more prosperous and suburban Sioux Falls metro about an hour an a half to the north. The downtown and nearby industrial areas have fairly large brick warehouse districts and even once had an elevated railrway before it was decommissoned! The place isn't known for it's skyline, but there is a pretty ample supply of historic building stock to repurpose, and there is an abundance of Prairie School-styled architecture throughout, which the city has come to embrace on newer public construction projects. The most significant project underway right now is the historic restoration of art deco Warrior Hotel. This 10-story building has been vacant since 1976 and it's boarded up windows and failed reuse schemes over the years were an ominus cloud over their downtown. A company called Restoration St. Louis is spending $73 million to renovate The Warrior and adjacent Davidson Building into a 148 Marriott Autograph Hotel, upscale apartments, street level retail, and some office space, which is slated to be completed later this year. Historic Building image Vacant for many years Progress Davidson Building next door, also getting a rehab

These shots of Des Moines aren't as photogenic, but taken from a different angle, you can better gauge the full size of the downtown skyline. Defintely a close one. I love LR's skyline and I'm totally biased, but DSM's skyline just has a little more class to it IMO. And here's a rough and dirty winter shot of our small "midtown" skyline taken from about a mile and a half away.