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Hy-Vee’s Local Brands Summit set for Sept. 7-9

Hy-Vee Inc. will hold its quarterly Best of Local Brands Summit Sept. 7-9, the West Des Moines-based grocer announced. The summit is one way in which the company finds and promotes local products on its …

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Waukee takes next step in its effort to provide affordable housing

The city of Waukee will soon be accepting proposals from developers to build affordably priced housing on land the city purchased earlier this year. The Waukee City Council on Tuesday approved a resolution seeking requests …

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DMPD, Broadlawns launch new services to address mental health calls

Iowa Public Radio: Starting this week, Broadlawns Medical Center will be adding to ways it assists the Des Moines Police Department with mental health services. Broadlawns has partnered with the DMPD for the past five years …

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Wells Fargo lays off another 107 workers in DM metro as mortgage market cools

Des Moines Register: Wells Fargo & Co. announced another round of layoffs in the Des Moines metro last week, doubling the number of workers at the banking giant who have lost jobs in central Iowa this …

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Zegers to lead DMACC’s adult education, correctional academic services programs

Des Moines Area Community College has named Abby Zegers executive director of higher education in prison and adult education and literacy. She will oversee High School Equivalency Test programming, Department of Corrections Adult Basic Education and Post-Secondary …

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Study: Consistent 401(k) participation yields 6-figure balances for majority

A new study from the Investment Company Institute and the Employee Benefit Research Institute released Friday finds that participants who consistently participated between 2010 and 2019 accumulated sizable 401(k) plan account balances. The trend in …

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NOTABLE TRANSACTIONS: Hubbell Realty sells spec warehouse property for $19.3 million

Hubbell Realty Co. has sold its speculative industrial project in Ankeny’s Crosswinds Business Park to out-of-state investors. Screen grab courtesy Hubbell Realty Co.

A speculative industrial project that Hubbell Realty Co. began building a year ago …

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How to prepare for a recession? CRE pros provide some tips

Interest rates are climbing, inflation is soaring and the GDP declined in 2022’s first quarter.

Signs point to a decline in gross domestic product in second quarter as well, sparking concerns that the the U.S. …

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Electronics failure caused Tuesday afternoon Mediacom outage

More than 210,000 Mediacom customers in the central, western and southeastern portions of Iowa and northern Missouri experienced an outage of internet services Tuesday afternoon. Mediacom Communications Director Phyllis Peters told the Business Record that …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Black women will get no-strings-attached monthly checks in this new guaranteed income experiment

In Georgia, Black women make 63 cents for every dollar white men make. And nearly half of the remaining Black households in the neighborhood live on less than $25,000 a year, Adele Peters reports for Fast Company. The …