Archive for December 2012
Transactions from the Dec. 12 CRE Weekly
Signed Lease Transactions
Big Game Enterprises LLC, doing business as Perkins, has purchased land at 714 S.E. Oralabor Road in Ankeny. Bill Gardner of Denny Elwell Co. represented the buyer and the seller, Big H …
Read MoreMumm buys Ruhl & Ruhl brokerage in West Des Moines
Commercial real estate broker Kurt Mumm has bought the NAI Ruhl & Ruhl Commercial Co. brokerage that he has headed since August 2004.
Mumm said today that under the purchase agreement, he can continue to …
Read MoreRetailers take heart in holiday shoppers’ procrastination
Most Americans are nowhere close to having their holiday shopping done, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The poll boosts retailers’ hopes for a bump in sales during the last two weeks before Christmas.
The poll, …
Read MoreFlush with cash, U.S. companies poised for capital spending next year
American companies are poised to put idle cash to work as demand rebounds in 2013 after spending slumped amid the slowdown in China and Europe’s recession, Bloomberg reported.
Manufacturers project they will invest more next …
Read MoreDes Moines nonprofits merge to help HIV patients
AIDS and HIV patients soon will receive medical and case management services more conveniently, and two Des Moines nonprofit agencies will save money by merging.
The AIDS Project of Central Iowa and Primary Health Care …
Read MoreWant more passenger train service?
The Iowa Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing to discuss a draft environmental impact statement for a passenger rail line from Chicago to Omaha.
The study lays out a preferred line that would …
Read MoreBerkshire announces stock buyback
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said today that it had repurchased $1.2 billion of its own stock and raised the price at which it is willing to buy back shares, Reuters reported.
The conglomerate, which owns MidAmerican …
Read MoreMichigan passes right-to-work legislation
Michigan lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to legislation that would sharply limit labor rights, passing the first of two measures over the objections of thousands of people packing the Capitol in protest, NBCNews.com reported.
By a …
Read MoreExecutive: FedEx ‘systematically’ overcharged businesses
FedEx Corp. has been “systematically overcharging” customers by billing businesses and government offices at higher residential rates, a company sales executive said in an internal email unsealed in a lawsuit, Bloomberg reported.
“I have brought this …
Read MorePre-existing condition fees could hurt a lot
Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It’s a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, The …
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