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The Elbert Files: Being Jeff Chelesvig

When “Disney’s The Lion King“ opens a three-week run in Des Moines next Tuesday, Jeff Chelesvig faces the task of selling 61,752 tickets, which is about 3,000 more than the number of people who live …

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McLellan: Transparency leads to trust

I really don’t like surprises. Granted, I’m anti-surprise to the extreme. I used to drive my mom crazy by ferreting out where she hid the Christmas gifts and then “guessing” what I was opening on …

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A Closer Look: Jayne Armstrong

Jayne Armstrong isn’t sure why it took so long to get to Iowa.

The new director of the Iowa District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration spent a majority of her life on the …

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Plan for Village of Ponderosa aims to attract YPs to WDM

A Texas developer may have found “a better mousetrap” for attracting young professionals to West Des Moines with a proposal for a high-end residential development at the Village at Ponderosa.

 

Amit Goel, who at …

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Filling the gaps in money knowledge

Iowa high school students who plan to borrow money for college aren’t any more knowledgeable about the student loan process than their peers who don’t plan to borrow, a new study shows. 

Overall, financial literacy …

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CRE panel admires the handiwork

Knapp Properties Inc. President and CEO Gerry Neugent might be the inaugural CRE Professional of the Year award winner, but that doesn’t mean he can’t admire another developer’s handiwork.

 

Neugent has taken a keen liking …

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Homebuilder and developer signs contract for more land in River Point West

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Rob Orton, the Urbandale-based homebuilder and developer who is attempting to buy nearly 70 acres in River Point West from a railroad company, has signed a contract to buy an …

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Council questions incentives for 7th & Grand ramp

 

The Des Moines City Council wants a price tag placed on blue sky above the Seventh and Grand parking ramp before the city issues a development agreement for the space.

 

Assistant City Manager …

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Have ash trees? Here’s what to do about emerald ash borer

Now that the emerald ash borer has arrived in the area and threatens to kill ash trees in Greater Des Moines, you may be wondering what you can do about the pest.


You have two …

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The Elbert Files: Des Moines’ original ‘Teflon Don’

Nearly 50 years after Lew Farrell’s death, Des Moines’ most memorable Mafia character has caught the attention of U.S. chamber of commerce historian Chris Mead. 

Mead is working on a sequel to his 2014 book, …