Real Estate and Development

An upcoming amendment to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) temporary 504 refinancing program will allow more small businesses to obtain stable, long-term financing on owner-occupied real estate, the SBA announced on Tuesday.

Under the …

Sixty-four percent of participants in a survey of senior corporate real estate and workplace executives said they received a pay increase last year, according to CoreNet Global.

National Real Estate Investor also reported that 74 …

Leading and adapting to change will be the focus of the Iowa chapter of the American Institute of Architects’ 2011 spring meeting in Ames. “Morph: Transforming the Profession” is scheduled to take place on April …

On March 28, the West Des Moines Plan and Zoning Commission approved a request by Watson Centers Inc. to modify the west façade of Valley West Mall in order to accommodate a Noodles & Co. …

The Des Moines City Council approved the final subdivision plat for Airport Business Park Plat 3, which will allow developer Opus Development Corp. to move forward its proposed construction of a 300,000-square-foot expansion of Hewlett-Packard …

A new survey from KPMG shows that optimism is improving among U.S. manufacturing and service industry executives, who say the worst is behind us, CNBC said today.

The survey found that 68 percent of manufacturing …

Denny Elwell Co. will hire two commercial agents as the Ankeny-based commercial real estate brokerage plans to open a satellite office in Waukee by July 1.

On March 28, Blake Brown and Michael Billings, founders …

Kristine Young, CEO of Miller the Driller Inc., has become the first woman president of Associated General Contractors of America Inc. The trade group announced that Young, 60, was sworn in this morning during a …

The city of Des Moines has agreed to defer payments and interest on the $2.1 million mortgage it holds on Hubbell Realty Co.’s downtown mall at 555 Walnut St.

On March 14, the City Council …