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Pleasant Hill can deliver the data to support more diverse housing

With a decade under his belt in Pleasant Hill city management, Ben Champ has heard a few things about the city, and now a study has confirmed the stories: The city can accommodate a more …

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A condo conversion success story at the Kirkwood Hotel

In 2015, Tim Schutte’s banker told him it would take three years to convert 54 apartments at the Kirkwood Hotel into condominiums and sell each of the units. Schutte, broker owner of Exit Realty Capital …

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Kate Harris named Stanley Consultants board chair

Quad-City Times: Stanley Consultants President and CEO Kate Harris has been elected board chair for the Muscatine-based engineering firm. Harris, who joined Stanley as president and CEO last year, will replace Gayle Roberts, who recently retired. …

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Ryan Cos., once in running to buy Riverfront Y site, gets a contract for federal courthouse

One day after announcing its commitment to build a $140 million federal courthouse at the site of the former Riverfront YMCA in downtown Des Moines, the federal government said it has awarded Ryan Cos. US …

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GSA picks former Riverfront Y site, again, for federal courthouse

The federal government appears poised to stake a claim for what many believe to be the premier development site in Iowa, nearly two acres of land near the Des Moines River where Hubbell Realty Co. …

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Hubbell presses on with plans for luxury condos where feds want a new courthouse

Hubbell Realty Co. is ready to tap the luxury condominium market with a development for a site that has become nearly legendary for the interest it has generated and its role in the redevelopment of …

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Cownie, city of Des Moines lay groundwork for key Market District development site

Businessman Jim Cownie could sell the site of a scrap metal operation on the southern fringe of the East Village in Des Moines to the city if development plans do not work out, according to …

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Local investment group wants to buy, develop Griffin Building

Local investors are attempting to purchase the historic Griffin Building in downtown and continue with development plans that entail apartments, including affordable units, and commercial office and retail uses.

Renovation of the six-story building at …

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Flipping out in Des Moines

According to financial services website WalletHub, the chant “buy it, fix it, flip it” could be rising from a neighborhood near you. Des Moines is the ninth-best city in the country to flip a house, according …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Urban Institute attempts to solve puzzle of low homeownership among millennials

The Urban Institute has gone to the trouble of quantifying the reasons the homeownership rate among millennials trails previous generations, and it has done us the favor of recommending some policy changes that might put…