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Jan. 31: Des Moines’ Market District Plan, An Area in Transition

Host: Urban Land Institute Iowa
About: Known as the Market District of the East Village, this area of downtown Des Moines has a fascinating history of primarily industrial and municipal government uses, yet the current wave …

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WesleyLife, Genesis to collaborate on new senior living community

Quad-City Times: Johnston-based senior care provider WesleyLife will partner with Genesis Health Systems to form a new organization to focus on providing care to older adults in eastern Iowa. The collaboration will include building a new …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Microsoft offers more money than talk toward affordable housing crisis; Boston weighs a plan

Greater Des Moines can count a few shining examples of affordable housing, most of it out of sight and probably out of mind in various pockets of the metro. Not that we don’t spend a …

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Medicaid manager will pay top dollar for West Des Moines digs

Iowa Total Care, a company hired to help manage Iowa’s $4.8 billion private Medicaid system, has applied for permits valued at $4 million for tenant improvements at R&R Realty Group’s new Westfield office complex, a …

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DLR Group gets special recognition from Marriott

Marriott International has recognized DLR Group as “Best Interior Design Firm,” presenting the organization with its Design Excellence Award. The award is conferred upon one interior design firm and acknowledges excellence in hospitality design for …

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Des Moines, West Des Moines projects among ‘best development’ winners

1000 Friends of Iowa will present its annual Best Development awards Jan. 22 at the Capitol Rotunda.
Here are the recipients for 2018:

Innovative Leadership: City of Storm Lake for building a sustainable community through…
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Hubbell bringing flex-tech building to the market

Hubbell Realty Co. has started construction on an $8 million, 72,000-square-foot flex-tech/office building at the Birchwood Crossing business park in Johnston, according to a release. The project sits on an 8-acre site at 7901 Birchwood …

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Pomerantz family real estate firm makes changes at the top

Marne Sirfus, a 13-year employee of Coldwell Banker Mid-America Group Realtors and Mid-America Group Ltd., has been named CEO of the West Des Moines-based commercial and residential real estate firm. In announcing the appointment, Jeff …

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Closer Look: Les Sulgrove

When Via Group Realtors President Ken Clark said last month that veteran residential real estate agent Les Sulgrove had been named vice president of the West Des Moines firm, he left out a key piece …

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Homes sales down, prices up last year; ‘strong and stable’ the words for the year ahead

Home sales dropped 2 percent to 14,456 last year from 14,703 in 2017, the Des Moines Area Association of Realtors said in its end-of-the-year report. The median sales price increased last year to $229,000 from …