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A Closer Look: Adam Plagge

Adam Plagge has been on the job as the city of Johnston’s economic development manager for a little more than two months. He has seen economic development from the ground up, working on the development …

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House sales down in October, but remain above year-ago numbers

Greater Des Moines home sales, pending sales and sales prices dropped in October from September, but remained above year-ago levels, according to a report from the Greater Des Moines Association of Realtors. Sales dropped to …

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Minneapolis developer plans apartment building in Western Gateway

Minneapolis-based Roers Investments, the developers who teamed up with apartment management czar Harry Bookey on the 211-unit Confluence on Third multifamily project in downtown Des Moines, is planning a five-story, mixed-use building at 1400 Walnut …

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Hurd sells last property at former Quality Ford site

  Richard Hurd has turned out the lights on his investment along Eighth Street in West Des Moines, a property he bought in 2009 when, as he has noted previously with the Business Record, “there…
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Senior living center under construction in West Des Moines

  MorningStar Senior Living and Confluent Development of Denver have broken ground on a new senior living community at 60th Street and Village View Drive in West Des Moines. Construction on MorningStar Senior Living is…
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Sculpture memorializes founding of National Bar Association

The groundbreaking for the installation of  “A Monumental Journey” was Thursday in Hansen Triangle Park in downtown Des Moines. The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation project is a memorial to the legacy of African-American…
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Greater Des Moines foreclosure rate remained below 1 percent in August

The rate of foreclosures among active mortgages in Greater Des Moines dropped 0.31 percentage points over the year ending in August to 0.67 percent, real estate analytics firm CoreLogic Inc. said. Mortgage loans that were …

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Reception for Bill Anderson art exhibit is Thursday

Architect Bill Anderson has led the design teams that brought the distinctive EMC Insurance Cos. headquarters to Walnut Street, not to mention the Western Gateway Park. He is semi-retired and his architectural skills mostly reserved…
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West Des Moines moves forward on Phenix school redevelopment

 

The West Des Moines City Council voted Monday to use a $625,000 Iowa Finance Authority loan to further the redevelopment of the former Phenix Elementary School into affordable housing.

  The city is partners…
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Warehouse space is adding up

  R&R Realty Group has started work on a 250,000-square-foot warehouse in Grimes that will bring its industrial developments within about a three-minute drive of each other in the city and Urbandale to 2 million…
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