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Home Builders select Ironwood for HomeShowExpo

The Home Builders Association of Greater Des Moines has selected Ironwood Plat 5 in Altoona as the site for its annual HomeShowExpo, to be held July 22-31. It’s the first time in the event’s 36-year …

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Partnership Building on the auction block

The Greater Des Moines Partnership Building is going on the auction block. Bidding on the 10-story office and retail property at 700 Locust St. is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. today on www.auction.com.
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Midwest Partnership EDC is looking for a new director

Jason White will start work April 1 as executive director of the Warren County Economic Development Corp., replacing Tiffany Coleman, who now is the development coordinator for the Urbandale Development Association. White has been the …

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SBA announces commercial real estate refinancing loans

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced Thursday that it will make up to $15 billion available through a new, temporary loan program over the next two years. The loans are designed to assist small …

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Good news for Nollen Plaza


Sociologists predicted that it would be a long time before anyone found a silver lining in the Great Recession, but they were wrong. At a presentation about the plan for overhauling downtown’s Nollen Plaza, someone …

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Carlisle supports Hubbell plan for 30 homes


Hubbell Realty Co. plans to construct 30 affordable-housing units at its Danamere Farms development south of Iowa Highway 5 on Scotch Ridge Road in Carlisle.

On Monday, the Carlisle City Council voted to support Hubbell’s …

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A Closer Look: Kevin Sullivan


You have some strong sentiments about mentoring.

I was at Hubbell for about 18 years, and during that time, I probably trained two dozen brokers, and one of the first people I trained was a …

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Second chance for a riverfront hotel


Hawkeye Hotels Inc. has picked up where a Michigan-based developer left off and plans to construct a 128-room Hampton Inn and Suites by Hilton on the west bank of the Des Moines River.

Operating as …

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Hy-Vee to construct C-store, then supermarket, in Waukee


Hy-Vee Inc. is poised to break ground on its first phase of development at the Crossing at Alice’s Road in Waukee.

Beginning this spring, the grocery store chain plans to construct a 4,360-square-foot Hy-Vee Gas …

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Ankeny approves Staples site plan


Staples Inc. will construct an 18,000-square-foot store at 2407 S.E. Delaware Ave. in Ankeny.

On Feb. 8, the city’s Plan & Zoning Commission approved a site plan for the Framingham, Mass.-based retailer to build northwest …