SPIREON, INC.

Spireon, Inc. is North America’s leading connected vehicle intelligence company, providing businesses and consumers with powerful insights to track, manage and protect their most valuable mobile assets. 
Spireon had quickly outgrown their former Dyersville space and DEDC had been working with company officials to determine alternate locations when the concept of the downtown mixed use building was presented. Spireon CEO, Kevin Weiss really liked the idea of having the employees engaged in the community and making a difference in the downtown.
Spireon occupies about half of the 20,000 square foot commercial space. with their state of the art open office concept. Their office features a full southwest window view and private patio overlooking the Northfork of the Maquoketa River.

“We absolutely love our new building. It is so bright and has some spectacular views. We are happy to be downtown near all of the shops and restaurants, and when the weather changes it will be nice for our employees to be able to take advantage of the other amenities, such as the trail system.”

-Dave Boekholder, Vice President-Sales, Spireon, Inc.

SELCET PHYSICAL THERAPY

Select Physical Therapy, a division of Select Medical, has opened a 1,500 square foot clinic at The Landing. Select Physical Therapy is a Pennsylvania-based network of outpatient physical rehabilitation experts that operate about 25 clinics throughout the state of Iowa. They have over 1,700 centers in 37 states.

A native of Dyersville, Allison (Riesberg) Mills first contacted DEDC, looking for potential sites for her company’s clinic. After reviewing a few available locations in the community, the company focused on The Landing, and are happy they did.

“We are so excited as an active service provider, to have our new facility located in the heart of the community. We look forward to providing an exceptional patient experience to the Dyersville community.”

-Allison Mills, DPT, ATC/L, Market Manager, Select Physical Therapy

Looking for commercial space?  Prime window/patio access space still available.

Dyersville Economic Development Corporation is proud to introduce Kelli Brink, our newest member to our management team. Kelli joined our team in November, 2020 with a wealth of marketing, customer service and sales experience, Kelli holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Studies with a focus in PR and Marketing from the University of Iowa. Kelli has put her skills to great use, heading up

the Total Fitness side of DEDC and working with our members, instructors and employees and is now looking forward to working with employers to help recruit a quality workforce in the community.

Kelli is ready to help you promote your businesses job openings through our complimentary job board and social media outreach. If you have not heard from Kelli regarding your available positions or jobs in the area, feel free to email or call her using the contact information listed above. You can also contact us through the jobs posting button on our website at Dyersville.com. Our job board and promotional campaigns are just one more tool to assist our businesses to find qualified employees.

“Recently, Dyersville Die Cast searched for a Human Resources professional. We posted this position on the DEDC Jobs Board. Within a few days we had a highly-qualified candidate who lived in the community! Six candidates were interviewed for the position but the candidate whom our committee felt was the best fit for our culture was the candidate who applied via the DEDC Jobs Board. Now, two months later, we are very happy with our selection decision.”

-Jane Ertl, CEO, Dyersville Die Cast

INNOVATION LAB

We are so close.  Dyersville’s Innovation Lab will be coming to a downtown location soon so stay tuned!  Watch our facebook page as details develop.

Our Innovation lab will offer:

    Co working spaces

    Presentation and private office setting

    Meeting room/think tank for larger groups

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship programs:

          - Small Business Professional Development series

          - Coaching and technical assistance

          - Case studies & best practice models

          - Detail management

    Peer learning, emerging workforce and regional development opportunities

IMAGINE 2030.

Thank you to everyone who submitted ideas, big and small, to help make our community a better place live, work and play.  Now the Selection Committee will go to work in narrowing down the ideas and choosing a process to prioritize those ideas they think would have a positive impact on our community. 

Our last visioning process, Imagine 2020, brought about such projects as the new Interchange, the pedestrian/bike bridge connecting Westside and Candy Cane Parks, the Social Center and the Westside Park trail system.

We can’t wait to see what 2030 will bring!!

LET'S TALK T.I.F.

Tax Increment Financing can be a confusing program that is oftentimes misunderstood and mischaracterized by those not fully understanding its importance and benefit to all taxing bodies. In its basic premise, it is simply the reallocation of NEW tax dollars created by new or incremental valuation due to development of designated property. 

TIF enhances our community’s ability to make public improvements, incents companies to make large investments in our community, assists companies in their growth strategies, leverages state and federal funds for downtown revitalization projects and can help redevelop areas of slum and blight.  In fact, it is really the only economic development tool that we have left at the local level to responsibly grow our communities. 

Dyersville has found much success in fostering economic vitality through the responsible use of Tax Increment Financing without ever “taking away” tax dollars from any taxing body. One of the most common myths of Tax Increment Financing is that tax dollars are taken away from other taxing entities. The word “increment” is critical in that only dollars generated from the incremental values can be used to provide the incentives. While each TIF project is considered independently according to the needs and merits of the project, Dyersville has adopted general guidelines that have proven successful and beneficial to all. Generally speaking, only a percentage (usually 80%) of the taxes generated from the incremental value are rebated to the company for a period of ten years, according to our guidelines.

In order to better illustrate the benefits of TIF, we have prepared a case study of an actual project that shows how the allocation of tax dollars flow over the course of a TIF project. While there are many additional tax dollars and economic benefits for a community, county, school district and state through the use of TIF, this graphic deals conservatively and specifically with the property tax distribution.  Debt service and PPEL are never reallocated in a project and are not calculated into the tax distribution on this illustration.

Click here for TIF process illustration.