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Campustown Redevelopment

cyclone87 said:
Campustown could probably benefit from a comprehensive plan to help guide city and private development. That would hopefully give it some cohesion. I think the current council motioned to create such a plan, but it may have been postponed due to funding concerns at the onset of COVID. As for the Welch Ave project I agree not a big fan, the water quality improvements are nice but that's about it (although the aesthetics and the trees are subpar).
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I agree. I have no hopes though - since I've been around that "Lot X" and main parts of the Campustown "block" have bedeviled and outlasted four ISU presidents now and who knows how many developer's "Concept Plans". I just searched "Lane4" (the old concept plans this reminded me of) and see you too have been on this beat on CF here since at least 2011 :)

Have to give credit to whoever owns that big old house tucked back there (that I imagine most Campustown visitors never even notice) just steadily collecting rent while plans come and go!

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k123 said:
I agree. I have no hopes though - since I've been around that "Lot X" and main parts of the Campustown "block" have bedeviled and outlasted four ISU presidents now and who knows how many developer's "Concept Plans". I just searched "Lane4" (the old concept plans this reminded me of) and see you too have been on this beat on CF here since at least 2011 :)

Have to give credit to whoever owns that big old house tucked back there (that I imagine most Campustown visitors never even notice) just steadily collecting rent while plans come and go!

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My friend lived there back in 2007. He had a studio and it wasn’t great back then.
 
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Mexican place ("Cactus 2") has taken over the old Fuzzy's location along Lincoln Way.

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Mexican Restaurant | Ames, IA | Cactus 2

Cactus 2 is a Mexican restaurant in Ames, IA, that offers great Mexican food and drinks. Come today or call us at (515) 292-2576 to place an order!
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cyclone87 said:
Doing a quick search of the company at that address it seems they own some Brothers Bar and Grill locations. If so hopefully Covid doesn’t screw that up for them.
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Still no word on the street as to what will become of this property? We've got to be approaching two years of this "bombed out" property sitting derelict.
 
JSmoove said:
Still no word on the street as to what will become of this property? We've got to be approaching two years of this "bombed out" property sitting derelict.
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They were approved for a demolition permit in May so hopefully the property will get cleaned up this summer at least. As for what will get built, I heard they focused on existing properties during the pandemic. So probably next year before they get building unfortunately.
 
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$42M gift was announced yesterday for The Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering.

The new building will be built in the parking lot 3 below

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Yep, wonder if it will have a rooftop bar/dining patio area. That would be a nice addition to campustown.

Edit* never mind I see the outdoor bar/dining area will be on the west side ground floor. Still a nice addition to campustown. There isn’t really a large scale restaurant like this in that area.
 
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