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Economic Development

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Nov. 9: 2018 Small Business Success Summit

Host: Greater Des Moines Partnership
About: The purpose of the summit is to inform, educate and inspire business owners in Greater Des Moines. This event will be the premier business conference of 2018. The summit …

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Forbes ranks Des Moines No. 7 for business, careers

Forbes’ newest list of “The Best Places for Business and Careers” ranks Des Moines seventh among U.S. metro areas, just ahead of Austin, Texas. Des Moines ranked 21st in cost of doing business, 49th in education and …

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Small Business Summit preview

The second edition of the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Small Business Success Summit is set for Nov. 9, with a strong focus on marketing, branding and sales growth.

“The reason that we do this is the backbone …

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Record field expected for wrestling tourney in Des Moines

Des Moines’ first crack at hosting the USA Wrestling Preseason Nationals will feature a record field of 450 Iowans and 2,550 competitors from other states Saturday and Sunday at Hy-Vee Hall. The event, previously held in Cedar …

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State unemployment rate remains at 2.5 percent

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.5 percent through September, an 18-year low for the state, as the U.S. unemployment rate declined to 3.7 percent, Iowa Workforce Development reported this morning. The number of …

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C.R. Bankers Trust president leaves amid newbo evolve fallout

Market president Pat Deignan has left Bankers Trust of Cedar Rapids in the ongoing fallout from failed festival newbo evolve, after the bank is still owed most of a $2.25 million line of credit with …

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Gravitate Downtown plans intro to startup scene


Gravitate Coworking Downtown will host the Intro to the Des Moines Startup Scene on Nov. 8 as a way to introduce both the city newcomers and the longtime residents just starting to think about founding …

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Des Moines-W.D.M. ranks highly in prosperity, education

A new analysis of the Distressed Communities Index by the Economic Innovation Group found a “great reshuffling” of communities as the recovery from the Great Recession continues. Greater Des Moines apparently is one of the winners. The report notes …

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Economic Impact Award winners named

Nine Central Iowa business have received Economic Impact Awards from the Business Record and the Greater Des Moines Partnership. They are: 

— Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Co., a 109-year-old company that acts as a privately owned, …

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Hubbell Realty pledges $1M for water trails project

Hubbell Realty Co. will donate $1 million over five years to the Great Outdoors Foundation as the first major private contribution to a $117 million water trails project that is ballyhooed as a way to…