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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…
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Volunteer Iowa to equip and staff mobile response unit

Volunteer Iowa has allocated $400,000 in state and federal funding to equip and staff a mobile response unit that will make critical repairs to tornado-damaged homes in Marshalltown, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced. The mobile response …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Why some Amazon workers aren’t happy about their raise

Last week Amazon grabbed many headlines and some positive press with its news it was raising workers’ pay to $15 an hour. Sounds great. It turns out we should look for the details. The New York …

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SBA backs eight Central Iowa loans in September

The U.S. Small Business Administration backed eight private loans to Central Iowa businesses in September. 

The loans for a combined $2.2 million were for projects expected to create seven jobs and retain 29.


None of …

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Insurance accelerator wins international award

The Greater Des Moines Partnership received a Silver Excellence in Economic Development Award for the Global Insurance Accelerator in the category of Multi Year Economic Development from the International Economic Development Council on Tuesday in …

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Greater Des Moines is drawing people from Omaha, returnees

Greater Des Moines is drawing residents from Omaha, rural Iowa and, in the case of former residents returning, from all over the country, consultant-with-data James Chung told the Tomorrow Plan Speaker Series today. 

His presentation …

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IEDA backs wind-energy storage projects

The Iowa Economic Development Authority has granted a $200,000 grant to Fairfield-based Ideal Energy for two projects to study storing wind energy in batteries, the Energy News Network reported. The Fairfield company will pass information along to …

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NOTEBOOK: One Good Read – U.S., Canada and Mexico just reached a sweeping new NAFTA deal. Here’s what’s in it.

Forget NAFTA, remember USMCA. That’s the acronym for the new trade deal struck with Canada and Mexico on Sunday. It’s been a monthslong process to get to this point. If you want to know what …

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Creighton Midwest index slips but still positive

Creighton University’s index of Midwest economic strength in nine Midwest and Plains states slipped to 57.5 in September, down from 61.1 the month before. That is still well into growth; anything above 50 is positive. Creighton …