Archive for January 2015
Affordable housing as economic development
The Des Moines area has a chronic shortage of affordable housing, a fact recorded in enough dusty reports to feed wood-burning stoves across the city.
The solution isn’t just to build more lower-rent units, say …
Read MoreDeveloping economic wish lists for 2015
The new year has just arrived, but three key players in Central Iowa economic-development already are working toward ambitious goals they hope will build on the successes of the past several years.
The Iowa Association …
Read MoreBuilding a billion dollar bank
Developers who venture into abandoned industrial sites with the ambition to turn them into apartments and hotels need to carry more than their big ideas and a pile of lumber into the project.
They also …
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15 Industry Trends for 2015
15 business leaders from multiple industries provide trends to watch in 2015
Focus: Industry Trends
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Read MoreMore Metro homeowners are gaining value in their properties
The number of Greater Des Moines residential properties that are valued at less than their mortgages dropped to 8,619 or 7.2 percent through the third quarter of 2014, according to real estate research firm CoreLogic …
Read MoreUrbandale approves new development incentives
The Urbandale City Council has approved new financial incentives for projects that add taxable valuation within the Northwest Market Center Urban Renewal Area. New incentives include a three-year 90 percent tax increment financing rebate for rehabilitation/redevelopment of …
Read MoreCoopera partners in national immigrant outreach effort
Des Moines-based Hispanic consulting firm Coopera and the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions have launched a national campaign to reach unbanked and underbanked immigrants in the United States with credit union products and …
Read MoreYoung leaders plan overhaul of Beacon of Life
A team from this year’s Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute plans to remodel eight bathrooms at the Beacon of Life by mid-April, part of a Room for Giving, Room for Living campaign that also …
Read MoreFeds hope lower fees will lure new homebuyers
A quarter of a million Americans who have been shut out of the housing recovery may be able to get a mortgage now that President Barack Obama has cut the cost to insure their …
Read MoreBridgestone tire to lay off 69 workers this week
Slowing demand for farm equipment has prompted the Bridgestone farm tire manufacturing plant in Des Moines to lay off 69 workers, beginning this week, reports DesMoinesRegister.com. Under an agreement with United Steel Workers Local 310, laid-off …
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