Siouxland Business Journal - February 2013

Sioux City sings the Blues

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Local leaders lobby governor

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INSIDE THIS MONTH’S ISSUE:

Vol. 22 No. 12

PO Box 118, Sioux City, Iowa 51102

February 2013

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Dave Dreeszen, Siouxland Business JournalJustin Gray, Sioux City market president for Wells Fargo, is shown outside the bank’s downtown offices in the Ho-Chunk Centre. Wells Fargo is in the midst of a major capital project that will bring all of the bank’s downtown employees together on the same floor in remodeled spaces.


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SIOUX CITY | After a de-termined effort, Sioux City is going blue.

In its second attempt, Sioux City was named on Jan. 30 as one of six Blue Zones demonstration sites in Iowa. The announcement came as officials from Well-mark Blue Cross and Blue Shield chose communities that will receive help de-signing ways for residents to live longer, healthier, hap-pier lives.

“Obviously, we’re pretty excited about it,” Sioux City Mayor Bob Scott said of the selec-tion. “It’s good for the community. It’s good for o u r c i t i -zens.”

Communities selected as Blue Zones demonstration sites get help developing and implementing a blue-print for making permanent social, environmental and policy changes that improve community health.

The name comes from a book by Dan Buettner, who traveled to places in the world where a higher percentage of people live longer, healthier lives com-pared with global averages.

The goal is to make Iowa the healthiest state in the nation by 2016.

Project organizers and volunteers in Sioux City have started hiring staff and working on the blueprint, said Derek Carmona, who heads the Blue Zones effort for the city. It should be ready to unveil this summer.

“In a few months here, six or seven months, we’ll be able to announce the blue-print,” said Carmona. “And over the next couple years,

we’ll be able to start im-plementing some of those changes.”

Improving the city’s trail system and building and re-pairing more sidewalks are two items that likely will be in the plan, city officials said.

Scott said he would also like to see a permanent home for the Sioux City Farmers Market, which cur-rently operates in the Tyson Events Center parking lot, and support for community gardens.

The project shouldn’t fo-cus simply on eating better food or exercising more, but on the community as a

Sioux City is selected as Blue Zones community

Tim Hynds, Siouxland Business JournalMercy Medical Center-Sioux City employees take part in the Healthiest State Walk in Sioux City in October. Sioux City was one of six Iowa cities named Blue Zone demonstration sites in January.

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Tracking the NewsWhAT WE KNEW: Sioux City has been taking steps in an effort to be selected a Blue Zone after missing out on the designation in the first round of selections.WhAT’S NEW: The city on Jan. 30 was named one of six Blue Zone demonstration sites in the state as Iowa strives to be-come the healthiest state in the nation by 2016.WhAT’S NExT: Project organizers and volunteers will now begin hiring staff and working on the blueprint for making permanent changes to help improve the community’s health.

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SIOUX CITY | New-home starts in metro Sioux City jumped 75 percent in 2012.

Permits for 117 single-family homes were issued in metro area govern-ments in 2012, up 51 from the 66 taken out the previous year.

Sioux City led with 49 new single-family homes last year, up from 30 in 2011 and the most in five years.

Counting duplexes and townhouses, the city issued permits for a record 81 housing units in 2012.

That nearly doubled the previous year’s total of 42. The previous record high was 75 units in 2003.

City officials attributed the growth to urban revitalization efforts that encouraged new development around

the city, including infill projects. In the past year, the city approved new subdivisions in Leeds (Moos Creek), the northside (Country Club View) and Morningside (Whispering View 3rd and Morningside Crossing).

The city of Sergeant Bluff also posted big housing gains, issuing permits for 22 single-family homes last year, com-pared to just eight the previous year.

In Union County, which includes Dakota Dunes and North Sioux City, and rural developments such as Wyn-stone, there were 49 housing starts in 2012. In the previous year, when the southeast corner of the county endured months of Missouri River flooding, 30 single-family permits were issued.

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SIOUX CITY | Heritage Bank N.A. last fall relo-cated its downtown Sioux City branch.

The bank n o w o c -c u p i e s first-floor s p a c e i n the Frances Building at the north-east corner of 5th and Pierce streets.

Scott Sehnert, Heri-tage’s Sioux City market president, attributed the expansion to the bank’s growth in the local mar-ket and a desire to offer

enhanced services cus-tomers.

The new branch replaces the traditional stand-up teller lines with Heritage Bank’s sit-down customer service stations.

Sehnert, who has more than 25 years of experience in banking and finance in Sioux City, was named to his current post last sum-mer.

Heritage also has a Sioux City store at 4530 Singing Hills Blvd.

The bank operates 13 branches in Iowa and Min-nesota. The bank also has Northwest Iowa locations are in Alta, Anthon, Au-erlia, Cushing, Holstein, Lytton and Storm Lake.

Heritage Bank moves into new downtown offices

Dave Dreeszen, Siouxland Business JournalHeritage Bank last fall relocated its downtown Sioux City branch to the first-floor of the Frances Building, above.

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fRom pAgE 4whole, he said.

“It’s about volunteerism, it’s about religious organi-zations,” Scott said. “It’s a communitywide deal.”

This was the second time Sioux City has been a final-ist in the Blue Zones project. First-round winners — Ce-dar Falls, Waterloo and Ma-son City — were named in May.

Officials said they em-phasized the city’s diversity and reached out to business

leaders this time, efforts they believe made the dif-ference between being cho-sen and left on the outside looking in.

“We reached out to more people, we got involved with some more of those diverse populations, and I think we did a good job of articulat-ing that on our addendum to our Blue Zones project sub-mission,” said Sue Brown, co-chair of the Sioux City Blue Zone initiative.

Since the city’s initial run

at the Blue Zones, some agencies have already made changes. The Tyson Events Center recently began of-fering healthier snack op-tions alongside the standard arena fare. Lewis & Clark Park, home of the Sioux City Explorers, and Morningside College’s Elwood Olsen Sta-dium are expected to follow suit this summer.

At the Jan. 30 announce-ment in Des Moines, city leaders praised local busi-nesses and nonprofits for

working together to make Blue Zones a reality.

Supporter Dan Vondrak, manager of the Southern Hills Mall Hy-Vee grocery store, said he hoped the ef-fort would help Sioux City become a stronger and healthier community.

“What a great opportuni-ty for Sioux City,” Vondrak said. “There’s been a lot of people that have worked very, very hard, and I think it’s going to be great for the city long-term.”

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DES MOINES | Sioux City schools Superintendent Paul Gausman pressed, Siouxland Chamber of Commerce President Chris McGowan flattered and Lin-da Kalin, of the state poison control board, pleaded.

That’s how a delega-tion of Siouxland officials used their 30 minutes of face time with Gov. Terry Branstad on Feb. 13 in Des Moines.

They wanted to know where Branstad stood on money for schools, property tax relief, a gas tax increase and money for a poison control nonprofit organi-zation.

The delegation of 30 or so included business and school officials, private citi-zens and elected officials.

B r a n s t a d m e t w i t h them in the room where he holds his weekly news conference. It was a con-genial meet-i n g , w i t h Branstad cracking jokes and the governor and delegation swapping compliments.

Gausman asked the gov-ernor to support two mea-sures — one in the House and one in the Senate — that would help school districts

in property-poor areas keep their tax levies lower with additional state money.

“That’s something we may be able to work out,” Branstad replied, adding he supported the House bill and wasn’t familiar with the Senate bill but would look into it.

McGowan credited Brans-tad for taking a leadership role in economic develop-ment for Siouxland.

“He’s personally there, present,” McGowan said,

adding the governor has shown fiscal discipline in the state’s budgeting pro-cess.

Branstad told the group his top priority is education reform, followed by prop-erty tax reform.

He did a bit of lobbying himself, telling the group to reach out to Senate Ma-jority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, to get property tax reform passed. The governor supports one property tax relief proposal,

and the Senate Democrats have largely lined up behind a separate one pushed by Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, who chairs the Senate Ways and Means Commit-tee.

“Our real challenge is Sen. Bolkcom, he’s the one who said all the nasty things on the fertilizer plant,” Brans-tad said, referencing a pair of fertilizer plants — one in Lee County and one in Woodbury County — that received potentially mil-lions in state incentives last year to build in Iowa.

State economic devel-opment officials awarded loans totaling $1.5 mil-lion and tax credits worth $22 million to finalize a $1.7 billion expansion by CF Industries at its Port Neal plant near Sioux City.

At the close of the

meeting, Linda Kalin, di-rector of the Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center in Sioux City, brought up how grant money for the orga-nization had been cut by $350,000 over the past five years. Branstad said he ex-pected he would meet soon with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Seblius and asked Kalin to “put to-gether a one-page thing” about her funding so he could deliver the message.

Kalin noted that her group tried for some federal fund-ing that was denied, even though a similar organiza-tion in Nebraska received the money.

“They got it in Nebras-ka?” Branstad said. “Well, now it’s an issue of fair-ness!”

Everybody laughed.

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“Our real challenge is Sen. Bolkcom, he’s the one who said all the nasty things on the fertilizer plant.”

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Lee County and one in Woodbury County — that received potentially millions in state incentives last year to build in Iowa.


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Some ways to know if noise is too loud is:

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• If you have difficulty hearing speech, television, etc. for a few hours after being in noise.

Many people experience “ringing in the ears” or tinnitus, which is often described as buzzing, ringing, hissing, humming, roaring or whistling that someone hears. More that 50 million people in the U.S. have this condition, according to the American Tinnitus Association.

According to Medline Plus, people with severe tinnitus may have trouble hear-ing, working or even sleeping. Causes of tinnitus include hearing loss, exposure to loud noises (a predominant cause of tin-nitus is long-term exposure to high sound levels, though it can also be caused by short term exposure to very high sound levels, such as gunshots) or medicines you may be taking for a different prob-lem. Tinnitus may also be a symptom of other health problems, such as allergies, high or low blood pressure, tumors and problems with the heart, blood vessels, jaw and neck.

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• Educate others. Family members, friends, coworkers, and associates can benefit from understanding Tinnitus and its effects. They can be more supportive if they understand the conditions that are difficult for a Tinnitus sufferer.

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supportive of this intuitive, which is in-strumental in helping people learn to lead longer, happier and healthier lives.

The Power 9 are nine lifestyle habits that the healthiest, and happiest people who live the longest practice across five locations of the world. The Blue Zones Project is bringing those principles to Iowa to improve the health, vitality, and quality of life for Siouxlanders. Scientific studies suggest that 75 percent of life expectancy is determined by our daily lifestyle habits.

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3. Down Shift – Chronic stress may lead to chronic inflammation, which is associ-ated with every major age-related dis-ease, including musculoskeletal pain and slows the rate in which your body heals from an injury. Although we all experi-ences stress, the world’s longest-lived people have routines to stay resilient and reverse that stress. Find a stress-relieving strategy that works for you and make it a routine. You’ll benefit both physically and emotionally!

4. The 80 percent Rule – A strategy that focuses on how to stop eating when you are 80 percent full, this lifestyle habit is an excellent way to help reduce our por-tion sizes, limit overeating, and help lose or maintain our weight.

You may also help cut 20 percent of your calories from meals with evidence based lifestyle practices such as; Eating a healthy breakfast, drinking 40-plus ounces of water daily working towards half of your weight in ounces, using 10 inch plates and slim glasses, and eat with your family.

5. Plant Slant – While most people in the Blue Zones areas only consume small amounts of meat on rare occasions, all

of them eat a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, which are packed with disease-fighting nutrients. Since we live in the Midwest, where steak, hamburger, and pork are staples of our diet, work to buy the leanest you can afford (cut off extra fat). Limit portions to the size of a deck of cards and don’t exceed serving it more than twice a week.

6. Wine at 5 – Thanks to healthy plant compounds and antioxidants, wine has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, some cancers and slow the pro-gression of neurological disorders like Al-zheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. Limit your daily intake to one glass for women and two glasses for men, only if you have a healthy history with alcohol.

7. Right Tribe – The world’s longest-lived people are either born into or choose social networks that support and encour-age healthy lifestyle habits. By assessing who you hang out with, and proactively surrounding yourself with healthy-minded and supportive people will add years to your life and life to your years!

8. Community – Ninety eight percent of the centenarians interviewed in the original Blue Zones areas studies be-longed to a faith-based community. It doesn’t matter which faith you belong to, however by attending faith-based servic-es four times per month adds 4-14 years of life expectancy.

9. Loved One’s (Family) First – Happy, and healthy centenarians in the Blue Zones put their families first. This may mean keeping your aging parents and grandparents in or near your home,

maintaining a committed relationship, and investing time and love into children. These three things can add up to 6 years to a person’s life.

Support Sioux City as a Blue Zone Community and improve your health by completing one or both of these actions:

1) Take the Blue Zones® Personal Pledge online at www.bluezonesproject.com , as we need at least 20 percent of citizens of Sioux City to sign the Blue Zones Per-sonal Pledge and complete one action to improve their health

2) Take the free Vitality Compass to as-sess your body’s real age, and then find out how to add more good years to your life to improve your longevity and qual-ity of life at http://apps.bluezones.com/vitality

Sources:1. Power 9 Nine lifestyle habits you

can adopt to feel better, live longer, and be happier, and Walking is good for you, pages 10-11 of BLUE Spring 2012 by Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield.

2. Blue Zones Project website at www.bluezonesproject.com Know the “Power 9”.

3. The Blue Zones “Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest” by Dan Buettner by the National Geographic Society.

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SIOUX CITY | Wells Fargo has embarked on a major capital project that will put all of its downtown Sioux City employees on the same floor in remodeled spaces.

The bank currently leases offices on both levels of the two-story atrium in the Ho-Chunk Centre, formerly known as the Terra Centre, at 600 4th St.

Plans call for moving the wealth management and commercial banking de-partments from the second to the first floor, where the bank’s retail and mortgage offices are located.

“We think it will be a real improvement for our cus-tomers,” Justin Gray, Wells Fargo’s Sioux City Market President said. “A lot of our customers use all of our services. To have them all in the same spot should be an added convenience.”

The change also should led to efficiencies for the bank’s staff.

“With everything, being on the first floor, there will be less back and forth,” Gray said.

To make room for all 50 of the downtown employees, Wells Fargo secured ad-ditional first-floor atrium space that has been vacant since an Arby’s restaurant closed several years ago. The bank’s existing space on the first floor also will be exten-sively renovated.

The redesign will free up more functional space, Gray said.

By using the space more efficiently, it allows us to not downsize any, but get everybody on the first

floor,” he said.With the exception of the

vault, the decor, from floor to ceiling, will be brand new.

The project, which will be done in phases, is scheduled for completion in June.

In January, demolition began in the former Arby’s space, which will house most of the mortgage per-sonnel. Two home mortgage originators will be stationed

in the main retail banking area.

Construction also is un-derway in the north half of the bank’s first-floor offic-es, which was gutted. After that phase of the project is finished, the retail banking functions will temporarily move into the space, so the remodeling can move to the other half of the floor.

When the project is fully

completed, the north half of the first-floor will be occupied by employees with the commercial bank-ing and wealth manage-ment departments. Some framing has started in that

area. During a recent tour, Gray showed the corner area where his new office will be located.

Beyond a little bit of dust, Gray said the work should have minimum disruption

to customers.Due to the construction,

the mortgage department temporarily relocated to the same second floor office where the president’s office is currently based.

At some point this spring, it’s possible the retail bank-ing office may have to close for a weekend, he said.

A highlight of the new look interior will be a large mural that will greet cus-tomers as they enter the bank from the Third Street parking lot. The mural, which is still under design, will feature historical im-ages of Sioux City and Wells Fargo.

Wells Fargo, the nation’s largest bank, has commis-sioned murals at more than 1,800 of its U.S. stores. Each is developed with the aid of local archives and histo-rians, said Angie Kaipust, a company spokeswoman based in Omaha.

Wells Fargo traces its roots to 1852, when founder Hen-ry Wells and William Fargo developed a fleet of stage-coaches to deliver banking and express services to gold miners on the West Coast.

A 1998 merger with Nor-west Corp. brought the modern day Wells Fargo to Sioux City. Norwest tech-nically bought Wells Fargo, and kept the iconic Wells name and the corporate headquarters in San Fran-cisco.

Norwest was an original tenant in the Terra Centre, built in 1983. The 10-story office tower was formerly the headquarters for Ter-ra Industries, which was

WELLS FARGO UPGRADING Project to put all bank’s downtown operations on one floor

Dave Dreeszen photos, Sioux City JournalTraffic on Jackson Street in downtown Sioux City can be seen through the window of Wells Fargo’s first-floor bank space, above, which is in the process of being remodeled.

Standing on a lift, CW Suter employee Mark Bower, right, works on duct work in first-floor space in the atrium of the Ho-Chunk Centre. Wells Fargo is remodeling the long vacant space as part of a major capital project to put all of its downtown Sioux City employees on the same floor.

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Mercy names Stroke Center med director

SIOUX CITY | Dr. Mei He has been appointed medical director of Mercy’s Stroke Center.

He attained her medical degree from Beijing Medi-cal Universi-ty in Beijing, China. She c o m p l e te d her residen-cy at Allegh-eny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa, and a fellowship in clini-cal neurophysiology at West Virginia University School of Medicine.

Board certified in neurol-ogy and neurophysiology, He’s specialties include clinical neurophysiology, EEG, EMG, epilepsy, sleep medicine and general neu-rology. She practices at CNOS in Dakota Dunes.

Sioux City Art Center combines posts

SIOUX CITY | Erin Webber-Dreeszen has been named A r t S p l a s h development coordinator at the Sioux C i t y A r t Center. The new position c o m b i n e s two previ-o u s p o s i -tions, and is the result of

the resignation of the pre-vious Artsplash coordina-tor Lisa Verschoor-Matney, who stepped down to spend more time with her family.

Webber-Dreeszen will be responsible for working with the ArtSplash Steering Committee members, hun-dreds of additional volun-teers, and Art Center staff, to oversee the development and implementation of the Art Center’s annual Labor Day weekend arts festival.

Prior to her most recent appointment, Webber-Dreeszen was the Art Cen-ter development associate, responsible for leading ArtSplash’s fundrais-ing campaign. Webber-Dreeszen will continue to coordinate the Art Center’s marketing efforts.

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Sioux City law firm adds partner

SIOUX CITY | Attorney Anthony Osborn has been named a partner in the G o o s m a n n Law Firm.

O s b o r n joined the Sioux City firm January 2010. He is a trial attor-ney focusing on business and construction law.

Prior to joining the firm, Osborn was an attorney

at two national firms. He is admitted to practice in Iowa, Nebraska, South Da-kota and California state courts, federal courts in the four states and Colorado, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Dunes office names appointments

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T h e Da -kota Dunes group also announces the hiring of Ruby Loza as an administrative assistant, and Josh Jensen as a finan-cial representative intern.

Before joining Northwest-ern Mutual, Johnson was a senior manager at Gateway,

Inc in North Sioux City, and a “Mil-l i o n D o l -l a r C l u b ” producer at United Real Estate So-l u t i o n s i n Sioux City.

A native of Sioux City, J o h n s o n g ra d u a t e d f ro m E a s t High School, and attended the Univer-sity of Iowa. She resides in Sioux City with her son Noah, 7.

Loza previously worked at Siouxland Federal Credit Union and St Luke’s Re-gional Medical Center. A native of South Sioux City, she is attending Northeast Community College in South Sioux.

Jensen is a University of Iowa sophomore student, majoring in accounting.

Bank appoints business banker

SIOUX CITY | Travis Haltli has been named as-sistant vice president and business banker at Heritage Bank’s downtown Sioux City location at 505 5th St.

As a business banker, Halt-li works with a three-person team of credit managers and business associates to serve customers. He comes to Heritage with 10 years of

banking ex-perience, in-cluding eight in business banking.

H a l t l i g ra d u a t e d from West High School in Sioux City and Briar Cliff University, where he earned a degree in business admin-istration with an emphasis in finance.

Haltli, his wife and two children reside in Sioux City.

Mercy names Heart Center director

SIOUX CITY | Mike Mc-Carthy has been appointed director for the Mercy Heart Center.

McCarthy brings a wealth of leadership and clinical experience to the posi-tion. A major in the U.S. Air Force, M ike cur-rently serves as the deputy director of the Critical Care Air Trans-port, Advanced Course for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills at the University of Cincinnati Hospital. In his role he has responsibility for the train-ing and clinical oversight of all USAF Critical Care Air Transport and Tactical Critical Care evacuation teams.

Throughout his military

ca re e r, h e h a s h e l d n u m e r o u s l ea d e rs h i p positions in surgical in-tensive care u n i ts a n d critical care air transport.

McCarthy has been de-ployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, providing critical care and trauma transport support. He has received numerous clinical awards including the 2012 Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence.

A native of Sioux City, McCarthy received his bachelor of science in n u rs i n g d e g re e f ro m Morningside College, and is enrolled in the master’s of political science program at Air University.

Area bank promotes officer

DAKOTA DUNES | Kent Kolbe has been pro-m o t e d t o vice presi-dent/com-mercial loan o f f i c e r a t Liberty Na-tional Bank.

Kolbe has more than 15 years of experience i n t h e f i n a n c i a l se r-v i c e s i n d u s t r y w i t h 10 years of local banking experience, he has been with the company since 2011.

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BusinessPeopleOBGYN earns board certification

SIOUX CITY | Dr. Kath-leen LaFavor, an obste-trician and gynecologist at Siouxland Women’s Health Care P.C., recently earned her board certification in obstetrics and gynecology

f r o m t h e A m e r i c a n Board of Ob-stetrics and Gynecology.

To b e -come certi-fied, LaFavor co m p l e te d a two step-process. She

initially passed a written test on the completion of her residency, validating her experience in treating women’s health care.

The second step involved an oral examination by a team of well-respected national experts who eva l u a te d h e r s k i l l s,

knowledge and ability to treat women’s medical conditions.

Braunger’s Foods honors salesman

SIOUX CITY | Ken Het-tinger has been named the 2012 Salesperson of the Year for Braunger Foods.

The Sioux City-based food service distributor p r e s e n t e d H e t t i n ge r, of Le Mars, Iowa, with its highest hon-or at its recent annual sales

award banquet. The award is based on sales growth in the previous year, growth over budget and results compared to other sales staff members. Hettinger receives a cash bonus, a new company card and a permanent place on the “Wall of Fame,” at the com-pany’s headquarters.

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BY DAVE DREESZENBusiness Journal editor

SIOUX CITY | MidAmeri-can Energy Co. has installed a new solar array on top of its office building in down-town Sioux City.

The 37.6-kilowatt rooftop installation includes 160 photovoltaic solar panels, which can each produce can produce up to 235 watts.

In the first full month of operation, the array avoided approximately 3.03 tons of carbon output, which is equivalent to planting 78 trees, according to the com-pany.

Planning for the proj-ect began last April, and construction started in August. The new installa-tion replaced an air-to-air rooftop solar system that heated water for the facil-ity and provided heat for the

five-story building at 401 Douglas St.

To replace the previous system, workers removed the old panels, replaced a portion of the roof, and in-stalled rails where the new solar array was mounted.

Web-based software also was installed to moni-tor the new system’s perfor-mance.

The Sioux City project is MidAmerican’s second solar installation. In 2011, a 12-panel, 3.78-kilowatt so-lar array was installed at the utility’s visitor center at the Iowa State Fair. The system helps power the building’s electrical system and show fairgoers how renewable en-ergy works.

MidAmerican also is working with State Fair offi-cials on the possible instal-lation of a 60-kilowatt solar

project at the fairgrounds. That project would include a public display that shows the energy system output and provide information about distributed solar gen-eration, related federal and state tax credits, and net metering tariffs.

MidAmerican agreed to the latest State Fair demon-stration project as part of a recent settlement with the Sierra Club.

To avoid a costly lawsuit filed by the environmental group over violations of the Clean Air Act, the Des Moines-based utility agreed to phase out burning coal in seven power plant boilers by 2016, including two at its Neal Energy Center, locat-ed just south of Sioux City. Emission control equip-ment also will be installed at two other Neal boilers.

MidAmerican Sioux City rooftop harnesses the sun

ProvidedA new rooftop solar array, above, is cutting electric costs in the MidAmerican Energy office building in downtown Sioux City.


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Courtesy of Siouxland ChamberSIOUX CITY ENTERTAINMENT Sioux City Entertainment, developers of the proposed Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Jan. 24 at its new office at 501 Douglas St. in downtown Sioux City. SCE is one of three developers that applied to the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission for a state gaming license.

Courtesy of Siouxland ChamberINTEGRATION PHYSICAL THERAPY A Jan. 30 ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrated the opening of Integration Physical Therapy’s new office at 3450 S. Lakeport, Suite B. Dr. Jane Stanley cut the ceremonial ribbon.


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Courtesy of Siouxland ChamberRED BONES CAFE A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Dec. 20 at Red Bones Cafe, 410 W. Seventh St. Sarah Dean is the owner of the family-run business, which offers comfort food at great prices. Shown cutting the ribbon are Dean, her mom Shelly, and Robert Ford.

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Courtesy of Siouxland ChamberBUSINESS AFTER HOURS The Siouxland Chamber’s Business After Hours was held Jan. 22 at the June E. Nylen Cancer Center. Two new physicians, Dr. Charles Murphy, radiation oncologist and Dr. Kamalesh Bala, medical oncologist, were introduced at the event.

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