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SBA backed $8.8 million in loans for Central Iowa businesses in October

The U.S. Small Business Administration backed 19 loans totaling $8.8 million for Central Iowa businesses in October. The assistance helped create 108 jobs and retain 154 existing jobs in Polk, Story, Boone, Dallas, Madison, Warren,…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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Sioux City is the most affordable housing market, West Des Moines the least

West Des Moines, with an average listing price of $363,008, is the most expensive housing market in Iowa, and Sioux City is the most affordable, with an average listing price of $130,798, according to a…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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Skywalks closed? There will be an app for that

The city of Des Moines plans to provide an app with routes to the Iowa Events Center when it closes a section of the skywalk system between Watson Powell Jr. Way and the Events Center …
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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RDG will help with properties near Kum & Go’s new headquarters

RDG Planning & Design has been selected by Kum & Go LLC to help plan the future of properties that the convenience store giant owns near its new headquarters, which is under construction in the…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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KCCI anchorman Kevin Cooney retiring after 33 years

KCCI anchorman Kevin Cooney, 63, will retire Nov. 24 after 33 years in the job. He will be replaced by colleague Steve Karlin. A Des Moines Register profile of Cooney notes that he joined the…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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2 ISU architecture programs rank in top 20 nationally

  Iowa State University’s undergraduate programs in landscape architecture and architecture are ranked in the top 20 in the nation, according to a new survey of practitioners by DesignIntelligence. The survey placed Iowa State’s undergraduate…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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Greater Des Moines foundation ranks well nationally

The Foundation Center recently ranked the Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines in the top 55 of more than 750 community foundations across the nation in all four categories of its CF Insights: Benchmarking Beyond Asset…
By BPC Staff | Nov 13, 2015
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Workiva, OutcomesMTM make Deloitte Fast500 list

Two Central Iowa companies, Ames-based software firm Workiva and West Des Moines biotech company OutcomesMTM, were ranked on the Deloitte Fast500 list of North America’s 500 fastest-growing companies in technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy technology.…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Nov 13, 2015
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USDA awards value-added grants to nine Iowa businesses

Nine Iowa-based businesses will receive U.S. Department of Agriculture grants worth a combined $1.2 million, the agency announced. The money is from the USDA Rural Development’s Value-Added Producer Grant program, which encourages new products. Among the recipients will…
By PERRY BEEMAN | Nov 13, 2015
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Strable elected chair of insurance industry trade group

Deanna Strable, president of Principal Life Insurance Inc.’s U.S. insurance solutions, has been elected chair of LL Global Inc., the nonprofit parent of trade associations LIMRA and LOMA, which have a combined membership of more…
By KENT DARR | Nov 13, 2015