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CEDAR RAPIDS -- “Just imagine. Four weeks ago, there was nothing,” said Kim Pang, vice president of development at Peninsula Pacific Entertainment, the company behind the upcoming Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center. He gestured to the floor, now solid under construction workers’ feet. The building was warm, too — workers’ safety glasses fogged up as they entered the building from the outside.

Nine months after Peninsula Pacific Entertainment broke ground at the site -- the day after the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission voted to grant a gaming license to build a planned $275 million casino and entertainment center near downtown Cedar Rapids -- the walls, roof and core mechanical sy

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