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NOTEBOOK: About the cover for this year’s Annual Real Estate Magazine

Business Record photographer Duane Tinkey’s cover photo for this year’s Annual Real Estate Magazine has some history behind it, and why not, given that it is a view of the entrance to the Bridge District,…
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Catch Des Moines ups the ante

Catch Des Moines has launched a fundraising effort aimed at raising an extra $200,000 a year or so to help land events and conventions in Greater Des Moines. 

With Greater Des Moines staging events ranging …

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Retiring UnityPoint Health-Des Moines CEO has long bucket list

Eric Crowell was promoted to his first hospital CEO role in the Quad Cities when he was just 30 years old, and now — 30 years later and 60 years young — he’s preparing to …

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McLellan: We still aren’t wowing customers

According to a new study from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, brand managers and chief marketing officers admit they’re worried that their jobs are at risk because they aren’t knocking it out of the …

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Newsmaker Q&A: Jessica Dunker

The health of the restaurant industry depends on what area of the state you are talking about. For intsance, Elkader in northeast Iowa is going to be a very different situation than the Court Avenue …

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NOTEBOOK: In case you missed it …

In case you missed it…
A brief look back at news from the past week on BusinessRecord.com

Armory decision delayed
The city of Des Moines delays action on three proposals for the Argonne Armory Building. …

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A Closer Look: Ben Handfelt

Ben Handfelt’s decision to move to Greater Des Moines is the kind of story his new employer, the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau (also known as Catch Des Moines) strives to find. 

We’ll …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the May 4 issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the May 4 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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NOTEBOOK: Transit troubadours

Many of you have probably caught the music performances on DART buses, and today you can hear Parranderos perform at Central Station.

It’s all part of the “everywhere art” efforts by Bravo Greater Des Moines …

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Creative lighting … plumbing & heating

To find the moneymaker behind KCL Engineering, you have to look behind walls, maybe below ground, even though much of its attention-grabbing work sheds light on iconic structures across the country.

Kris Kunze said the …