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Limelight Health receives $33.5 million in funding led by Principal

A San Francisco-based insurtech company with ties to Des Moines has received $33.5 million in investment capital from a group of insurers led by Principal Financial Group’s life insurance arm. The company, Limelight Health, will use …

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Medicaid manager will pay top dollar for West Des Moines digs

Iowa Total Care, a company hired to help manage Iowa’s $4.8 billion private Medicaid system, has applied for permits valued at $4 million for tenant improvements at R&R Realty Group’s new Westfield office complex, a …

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Des Moines, West Des Moines projects among ‘best development’ winners

1000 Friends of Iowa will present its annual Best Development awards Jan. 22 at the Capitol Rotunda.
Here are the recipients for 2018:

Innovative Leadership: City of Storm Lake for building a sustainable community through…
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Hubbell bringing flex-tech building to the market

Hubbell Realty Co. has started construction on an $8 million, 72,000-square-foot flex-tech/office building at the Birchwood Crossing business park in Johnston, according to a release. The project sits on an 8-acre site at 7901 Birchwood …

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Iowa ranks No. 1 in Midwest region for workforce development

Corridor Business Journal: Site Selection magazine has named Iowa as the Midwest’s top state for workforce training and development for a second year in a row. The magazine annually ranks states’ workforce training efforts by region, …

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Invenergy finishes MidAmerican Energy battery storage project

Chicago-based Invenergy has finished construction and started commercial operations of a battery storage system developed for MidAmerican Energy near Knoxville. The system can provide four megawatt-hours of storage, supplying enough electricity to power 900 average …

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Prairie Meadows casino finds a bookie

Now here’s betting on futures. Prairie Meadows has chosen William Hill to work as the casino’s official sports book operator — should Iowa lawmakers vote to allow sports betting. Legislators have discussed the idea, and …

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Pomerantz family real estate firm makes changes at the top

Marne Sirfus, a 13-year employee of Coldwell Banker Mid-America Group Realtors and Mid-America Group Ltd., has been named CEO of the West Des Moines-based commercial and residential real estate firm. In announcing the appointment, Jeff …

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Quad City airport passenger numbers up 17 percent in December

Quad-City Times: The Quad City International Airport ended 2018 on a high note. The number of total passengers was up 17 percent in December, Executive Director Ben Leischner told the Rock Island County Metropolitan Airport Authority …

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Revenue department releases updated state tax reform guidance

The Iowa Department of Revenue has released additional guidance on two common tax deductions that have changed due to the state tax reform measure signed into law in May 2018. The revised guidance applies to …