Council Bluffs is located on the east bank of the Missouri River, across from the city of Omaha, Nebraska. The liberalization of Iowa gambling laws was followed by the opening of The Bluffs Run Greyhound Park in 1986. By 2005, Council Bluffs was the 19th largest casino market in the United States.
The City of Council Bluffs industry includes “frozen foods, robotics, dairy products, plastics, railroading, electrical products, and pork and beef packaging” Retail sales and services are highly-valued in Council Bluffs.
American Games (a manufacturer of lottery gaming products), Barton Solvents, Con-Agra, and Tyson Foods have manufacturing plants in the city.
In 2007, Google began construction of a server farm on the former site of the Council Bluffs drive-in theater on Veterans Memorial Highway. By June 2016, Google had created “over 300 jobs” on site. Council Bluffs server farms are backing the entire “us-central1” region of the Google Cloud Platform.
The City of Council Bluffs always embraces cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity and has many historic business-friendly neighborhoods.
Council Bluffs is rolling out the “Welcome to Council Bluffs” welcome mat to new entrepreneurs, new startups, business founders, new residents and more value-added businesses.