BLK & Bold Specialty Beverages, a Des Moines-based social impact coffee company, is releasing a new docuseries Friday about its sustainability collaboration with SGS, a testing, inspection and certification company. The docuseries “BLK & Bold: A Journey Rooted in Coffee, Community and Climate” will premiere at noon Friday at the second annual Business for Good Summit…

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is investing in 14 urban water quality projects across the state. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig made the announcement alongside local leaders Monday at an event at Legacy Woods in West Des Moines as part of Iowa Soil and Water Conservation Week. Using funding from the state’s Water Quality Initiative and other…

At an economic outlook panel held Tuesday by the Greater Des Moines Partnership, statewide economists and a business consultant discussed how tariffs, inflation, interest rates and federal funding changes have affected various industries in Iowa, as well as trends they’re seeing in their work. Some of the uncertainty of the current climate, they advised, can…

Downtown housing, conversion of vacant office space, adaptive reuse and challenges facing the commercial real estate market caused by tariffs, interest rates and uncertainty around changes in the state’s property tax structure. Those were among the topics discussed during the Business Record’s Commercial Real Estate Trends and Issues Forum held Thursday, April 24, at the…

The total valuation of data center properties that are either fully developed or are in the process of being developed increased 5.1% in 2025 from 2024, a review of valuations in Polk, Dallas, Madison and Warren counties show. In 2025, the total assessed valuation of the nine properties owned by Apple, Meta and Microsoft in…

MVP Hospitality Iowa Inc., located in West Des Moines, paid Adi Lakshmi Lodging Inc. $2.7 million for property at 4995 Merle Hay Road in Des Moines, Polk County real estate records show. The 1.8-acre parcel includes a two-story, 111-unit hotel built in 1971. The property is valued at $2.4 million. The transaction was recorded April 21….