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$6.7 million price tag for Project Bluejay land, records show

Ryan Companies US Inc. bought 169 acres in Bondurant recently. The site is where a 780,000-square-foot warehouse/distribution/fulfillment center is planned. Google map.

Ryan Companies US Inc. paid 14 Bondurant landowners more than $6.7 million for 169 …

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Austin-based dine-in movie chain will likely anchor Court Avenue commercial development

A rendering by architects Solomon Cordwell Buenz shows the five-story commercial building planned at Fifth and Court avenues. Developer Justin Mandelbaum is in negotiations with an Austin, Texas, movie chain to anchor the project. Rendering special …

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Des Moines City Council approves new zoning code

The Des Moines City Council on Wednesday passed the final reading of an ordinance establishing a new city zoning code but not before it was chastised by one of its members.

“We’ve worked on this …

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Architect explains struggles over designing 8-story condo on former church site

An architectural rendering by Hartman Trapp Architectural Studio in Des Moines shows how the church building’s tower would be replicated in the proposed eight-story condo building. Special to the Business Record

As architect Brad Hartman and …

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Scheels plans new warehouse in West Des Moines

Scheels plans to build a 30,000-square-foot warehouse at 175 S. Ninth St. in West Des Moines, city officials said recently. The sporting goods retailer, which has a store at Jordan Creek Town Center in West …

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Construction of new Johnston housing development underway

Construction has begun on 11 houses in Johnston’s Birchwood Crossing neighborhood, Hubbell Homes announced. The houses, with starting prices of about $245,000, will back up to a mature line of trees and are near Timber Ridge Elementary …

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Owner explains how new Waukee brewery got its name

When Zach Dobeck names a new beer he’s brewed, he likes to pay homage to someone who has had a positive impact on his life.
   

The Sheriff is named after his father, Tim Dobeck, a …

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Ambitious town center project planned for Johnston

A conceptual rendering of the proposed Johnston Town Center planned at Northwest 62nd Avenue and Merle Hay Road. Special to the Business Record.

About 20 years ago, investment by owners in properties located along Merle Hay…
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Changes made to proposed Market District housing project

 

Since 2015, several projects have been proposed on vacant city-owned land north of East Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway between Southeast Sixth and Southeast Seventh streets.

None has moved forward.

Now, developer Frank Levy…
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$30 million expansion of Des Moines’ Cownie Soccer Park proposed

A consultant is proposing that the city of Des Moines expand the James W. Cownie Soccer Park on 87 acres along Hartford Avenue, about a mile south of the current facility. The cost of the…