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Billing their project as equal parts “Disney experience, open-air shopping and theater,” officials for the proposed $35 million U.S. MotorSport Entertainment Complex in Newton recently unveiled their plans for the facility, which is slated to …

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I’d like to build a portfolio of dividend growth stock for my sister. She just entrusted $54,000 to me, asking that I find good stocks that will pay her a decent income …

“I made the sale.”

That’s the victory cry of all salespeople. They scream, jump up and down and figure out their commission in their mind. They don’t realize they’ve missed the biggest sales opportunity of …

It was her job with AT&T Corp. that first brought Leanne Brunnette to Iowa. She had grown up in the Twin Cities, and received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bethel College in St. …

The Greater Des Moines Partnership and the Institute for Supply Management of Central Iowa will combine their respective trade shows, Get Wired! and The Products Show, for the first time. The free event will be …

When Tanya Keith and her husband, Doug, were designing a nursery for their daughter, Aviva, some compromises had to be made. Both parents love soccer, and he wanted an all-out futbol theme. She argued that …

If history repeats itself, a scant 10 percent of Des Moines’ 111,765 registered voters will go to the polls Tuesday to winnow the field of six mayoral candidates to the pair who will face off …

To any of you who missed it, a notable thing happened Sept. 26 when the Metro Market opened its doors.

There was, of course, the palpable excitement of having a new place to go, and …

AMES – How quickly will the next piece of the Iowa State University Research Park fall into place? A lot depends on how much help it gets from the Grow Iowa Values Fund.

The university …

For more than 30 years James Conlin, founder of Conlin Cos., has helped build, buy, sell and manage residential and commercial real estate projects in Greater Des Moines through his company’s property management, construction and …