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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…
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Mercy Behavioral Health Hospital gets green light to build in Clive

Rendering by Johnson Johnson Crabtree Architects, Nashville

Mercy Medical Center-Des Moines will be adding 100 mental health beds in Iowa. 

The Iowa Health Facilities Council today unanimously approved Mercy’s request to construct a 100-bed inpatient …

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Demolition begins on Waterloo dog track

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier: Demolition contractors on Wednesday began tearing down the dilapidated Waterloo Greyhound Park dog track, which had turned into a community eyesore as its future languished in the courts. Deer Creek Development, which purchased …

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Stahl Construction begins work on new Ankeny library

Minneapolis-based Stahl Construction, which has an Urbandale office, recently began work on the two-story, 55,000-square-foot Kirkendall Public Library in Ankeny. The new library will be located at 1250 S.W. District Drive in the Prairie Trail …

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Beal Derkenne completes Iowa City project

Rise at Riverfront Crossings has been completed ahead of schedule and turned over to the project owner CA Ventures, Beal Derkenne co-owner Andy Beal said in an email. The 573,000-square-foot project included a number of …

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Barrent Group acquired by American Mortgage Consultants

The Barrent Group, formed in 2008 by Richard Barrent and the late Richard Levitt to break down the mystery behind complicated mortgages, their investors and applicants, has been acquired by American Mortgage Consultants Inc., according …

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A web platform for the for-sale-by-owner set

Chad Torstenson’s education and training are in the medical profession, but a real estate deal three years ago turned his attention to home sales. 

Torstenson, an emergency room doctor who also carries a master’s in …