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$25M sports complex featuring ice hockey and soccer planned for West Des Moines

A $25 million sports complex is being planned for 60 acres of West Des Moines farmland located along Grand Avenue, just west of Interstate 35 and the Des Moines Area Community College West Campus.

The …

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RDG buys Walker | Coen | Lorentzen Architects

RDG Planning & Design has acquired Walker | Coen | Lorentzen Architects, boosting its architecture staff by 30 percent and adding an Iowa City office. “We’re excited about this for a whole host of reasons,” …

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KCL is a best place to work

West Des Moines-based KCL Engineering typically stands in the spotlight because of its creative lighting projects. Inc. Magazine believes we should pay attention to what’s happening inside its Valley Junction office. KCL was named among …

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Ankeny to hold groundbreaking ceremony for new library

The city of Ankeny will host a groundbreaking ceremony Friday at 10 a.m. for its new library that will be built in the District at Prairie Trail. Ankeny voters last year approved an $8.5 million bond referendum …

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RDG buys Walker | Coen | Lorentzen Architects

RDG Planning & Design has acquired Walker | Coen | Lorentzen Architects, boosting its architecture staff by 30 percent and adding an Iowa City office. “We’re excited about this for a whole host of reasons,” …

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Blackbird and EMC complete downtown Des Moines land deal

Blackbird Investments said in a news release last week that it has completed a deal to acquire the east block of the Kaleidoscope at the Hub from EMC Insurance Co. in exchange for the cleared …

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Apple completes land purchases, will farm 1,400 acres of data-center land

Apple Inc. has spent $68.4 million to acquire 2,042 acres of private property, most of it farmland, in what is now southwest Waukee, a sprawling tract of land the city annexed last year in large …

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Butler Mansion: A historic house designed with office users in mind

A concrete mansion that put Des Moines on the architectural map of American homes in the 1930s is for sale or lease after serving the better part of three decades as a grandiose office building …

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Hubbell extends development agreement for Riverfront Y site, pushes on with condo project

Hubbell Realty Co. is sticking with its plans for a midrise luxury condominium project at the site of the former Riverfront YMCA at 101 Locust St.

Hubbell President and CEO Rick Tollakson said that in…
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An Iowa Profile based on demographic, economic, housing data

The Iowa Finance Authority has launched Iowa Profile, a centralized and interactive collection of demographic, economic and housing data for the state. The project was commissioned by the Iowa Finance Authority and developed by Western Economic …