Economy

Customers of the Iowa-American Water Company can tell state officials what they think about a possible rate increase. Thursday night in Clinton, the Iowa Utilities Board will host the first of three customer comment hearings.

Jumer's Casino and Hotel in Rock Island will soon have a new owner. Thursday Delaware North announced an agreement to sell it to Twin River Worldwide Holdings, a casino company based in Rhode Island. 

Davenport wants to help small businesses hurt by the pandemic. It's using federal money from the CARES Act to launch the Small Business Resiliency Project.

To make up for the pandemic and the cancellation of traditional job fairs, the state of Iowa is trying something new. During the summer IowaWorks, a division of Iowa Workforce Development, held a drive through job fair in Burlington and will hold a second one in Davenport on Wednesday.

Full recovery is probably still a long way off, but unemployment is slowly improving in the Quad Cities during the pandemic. 

Traffic at the Quad City International Airport fell slightly between July and August as the summer travel season ended. But it's still down sharply from the same month a year ago before the pandemic.

Tourism in the Quad Cities was on the upswing before the pandemic hit. Numbers released by the U.S. Travel Association show that in 2019, tourists spent almost $1 billion in Scott and Rock Island Counties combined. 

What had been a vacant lot in downtown Davenport will soon be the site of new apartments and commercial space. Construction has started on a building called "Urbane 210."