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IEDA receives $200,000 export grant from SBA

The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded a $200,000 competitive grant to the Iowa Economic Development Authority for a program to support export growth among small businesses through the SBA’s State Trade Expansion Program (STEP). …

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ABI survey: Iowa business leaders’ confidence dips

The Iowa Association of Business and Industry’s fourth-quarter survey of its members found some fear that sales revenues were going to fall.

“The number of Iowa business leaders concerned about lower sales revenue next quarter stood out,” …

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Health benefit costs will grow by nearly 4% in 2020, according to early results from the Mercer National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans.

Iowans’ personal income grew by an annual rate of 2.3% in the second quarter, one of the lowest rates of growth in the country, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Overall, state …

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Iowa’s unemployment rate stays at 2.5%

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 2.5% in August. That’s a tick higher than the 2.4% rate a year ago. “In August, we saw another increase in the number of working Iowans in the …

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Mainstreet index for Iowa rises

The Creighton University Rural Mainstreet Index for Iowa rose to 48.7 this month from August’s 46.2. 

Highlights: 
– The survey of bank CEOs in 10 Midwestern states found that Iowa’s farmland-price index improved to 47.4 from …

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County official: Public funding debate on soccer stadium in ‘absolute infancy’

A push is underway to attract a USL Championship men’s soccer team to Des Moines. Photo special to the Business Record

With the announcement that Des Moines could get a multiuse sports stadium for a United …

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Exclusive: The ‘unique’ moving, colorful art planned for new parking garage

Imagine circling through a multistory parking garage, becoming frazzled as you search for somewhere to park.

Now, imagine that experience driving through slowly rotating patchworks of colors, causing you to feel as if you’re floating …

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Exclusive: The ‘unique’ moving, colorful art planned for new parking garage

Imagine circling through a multistory parking garage, becoming frazzled as you search for somewhere to park.

Now, imagine that experience driving through slowly rotating patchworks of colors, causing you to feel as if you’re floating …

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$60 million soccer stadium proposed for Des Moines

A push is underway to attract a USL Championship men’s soccer team to Des Moines. Photo special to the Business Record

A 9-acre site just south of downtown Des Moines is being eyed for a 6,000-seat multiuse …

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Iowa State, ASLA chapter team up on East Village ‘parklet’ displays

These parklets in Ames were built by Iandscape architecture students in 2013. This year, students are preparing to bring their parklet designs to Des Moines’ East Village on Friday. Submitted Photo

For the first time, the …