Economic Development

When metro big-thinker Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution visited Greater Des Moines recently, he suggested Iowa State University move to downtown Des Moines, or at least establish a major research center there. In the …

John May will serve as board chairman of the Cultivation Corridor for 2015-16, extending his leadership of the organization. May is president of agricultural solutions and chief information officer at Deere and Co. He …

Facebook today said it will build a third data center in Altoona, confirming its initial plans for the site. The first building was announced in April 2013, and the second a year later. This is …

A majority of Iowa Business Council members expect to sustain or increase employment over the next six months, while sales and capital spending plans remain unchanged for the state’s largest employers, the Iowa Business Council …

Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. announced Thursday it has opened the Marsh & McLennan Innovation Centre in Dublin, Ireland. The center, which is expected to create about 100 new highly skilled jobs in Ireland, is …

The Des Moines Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is launching a first-of-its-kind effort to plan water trails in the Greater Des Moines area.

The idea: Come up with a master plan for 150 miles of …

Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 3.8 percent in April from 4 percent in March, Iowa Workforce Development reported. The state’s jobless rate was 4.4 percent a year ago. The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 5.4 …

Beck’s, a retail seed company in the United States, plans a complex on an 80-acre site in Colfax. The site, expected to open in 2016, will include a 90,000-square-foot seed distribution facility, research, and farmer …

The Iowa Economic Development Authority last week gave final approval, with a caveat, to a $36.5 million rebate of sales and hotel/motel tax revenues into a sprawling area in downtown Des Moines that will include …