Allegiant planning more Cedar Rapids flights

CEDAR RAPIDS – Allegiant Air is planning to add flights between Cedar Rapids and destinations in Arizona, Florida and Nevada to meet projected travel demand in coming months. Cedar Rapids Gazette

Despite setbacks, mall manager says Southbridge moving on

MASON CITY – The Southbridge Mall numbers are not pretty. Two stores – J.C. Penney and American Eagle – announced this month they will be closing soon, and another chose to leave and open at a new location. The mall’s assessed value, just under $14 million in 2000, was $5 million in 2014. But T.J. Just, mall manager, maintains the mall is stable, with many successful tenants and some potentially big deals in the works. Mason City Globe Gazette

Nano-brewery to open in Muscatine

MUSCATINE –  The former Mississippi Marine building at 411 Mississippi Drive will soon house Muscatine’s first brewery in recent memory: Contrary Brewing Co. The business is considered a nano-brewery and is smaller than some of the microbreweries in surrounding cities. Quad-City Times