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Article: Minneapolis-Based Businesses Like Cedar Rapids, Iowa City.(Originated from The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 8, 1997
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Jul. 4--National Computer Systems' proposed processing and warehousing facility in southwest Cedar Rapids follows a pattern of growth in Eastern Iowa by Minneapolis-based businesses.
NCS, which employs as many as 1,200 seasonally in Iowa City, plans to break ground next month on a $15 million, 205,000-square-foot facility at Interstate 380 and Wright Brothers Boulevard. The operation will employ 250 within two years.
In 1994, NCS completed construction of an $11 million, 112,000-square-foot addition to its North Dodge Street facility in Iowa City that added 150 full-time and 125 part-time jobs.
Other Minneapolis-based companies have ...