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UnityPoint Health invests in St. Louis firm

UnityPoint Health Ventures has made its third play, backing St. Louis-based Epharmix, a remote patient monitoring technology company, with a $1 million investment. Unveiled in May of this year, UnityPoint Health Ventures awards investments to early-stage …

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Church preservation, 8-story residential building proposed on Grand Avenue

The Des Moines City Council will see a resolution on Monday outlining a developer’s proposed preservation of a vacant church property and construction of a new eight-story residential building on Grand Avenue. 

Developer Harry Bookey, operating as …

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County official: Public funding debate on soccer stadium in ‘absolute infancy’

A push is underway to attract a USL Championship men’s soccer team to Des Moines. Photo special to the Business Record

With the announcement that Des Moines could get a multiuse sports stadium for a United …

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Sept. 26: Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government 2019

Host: IowaWatch
About: Join us for Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government as we celebrate the role open government and an independent news media play in our democracy. Our guest speaker is Washington Post …

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The story behind the restoration of ‘Apollo and Venus’

Remember that big story about how Robert Warren over at Hoyt Sherman Place found Otto van Veen’s valuable “Apollo and Venus” painting while he was looking for Civil War flags in a little-used storeroom beneath …

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Holmes Murphy to launch broker-led insurance accelerator in Des Moines

Waukee-based insurance brokerage Holmes Murphy announced today it will launch a technology accelerator program specifically targeted to the needs of insurance agencies and brokerages nationally. 

Holmes Murphy is partnering initially with five insurance brokerages — …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Sept. 20 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the Sept. 20 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …

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Exclusive: The ‘unique’ moving, colorful art planned for new parking garage

Imagine circling through a multistory parking garage, becoming frazzled as you search for somewhere to park.

Now, imagine that experience driving through slowly rotating patchworks of colors, causing you to feel as if you’re floating …

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Sioux Center ethanol plant shuts down, blames Trump’s refinery exemptions

Sioux City Journal: A farmers’ cooperative in northwest Iowa is blaming the temporary shutdown of its corn-based ethanol plant on President Donald Trump’s decision to exempt dozens of oil refineries from a federal law requiring them …

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Iowa climate educators warn of more frequent and severe heat

Radio Iowa: A group of 216 “climate educators” from 38 colleges and universities in Iowa issued a statement warning that “extreme” temperatures are ahead. “Conditions will become very dangerous at times, much more so than we …