Real Estate and Development

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 …

New single-family home sales fell in February to a record low, with prices the lowest they have been since December 2003, the U.S. Commerce Department said today.

Sales dropped 16.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted …

The city of Des Moines is poised to select Sebasta Blomberg, a Roseville, Minn.-based engineering and design firm with an office in Cedar Rapids, to conduct sustainability audits on five downtown properties as part of …

U.S. commercial real estate fundamentals are on the upswing, according to a new survey from Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The Nashville Business Journal reported that the advisory firm is looking for the performance of the office, retail, …