Retail and Business

The pickleball entertainment venue Smash Park, which opened its first location in 2018 in West Des Moines, held its grand opening of a new location Wednesday in the Twin Cities. The new venue contains 50,000 …

Casey’s General Stores Inc. has agreed to acquire 22 Lone Star Food Stores in Texas from W. Douglass Distributing Ltd. and its affiliates for an undisclosed price, according to an announcement Tuesday from NRC Realty …

Charles Peterson, program manager at John Deere, founded V Formation Leadership earlier this year to provide encouragement to local leaders in partnership with Valley Community Center. Peterson said he created that business name to reflect …

To show support for U.S. veterans and active-duty military members, Casey’s is inviting guests now through Nov. 28 to round up their in-store purchases to benefit Hope For The Warriors and Children of Fallen Patriots …

Hy-Vee has kicked off its November campaign to honor U.S. veterans and active-duty military members with the Hy-Vee Homefront initiative, which includes fundraising and a free Veterans Day breakfast. All veterans and active-duty military members …

Jethro’s BBQ All Stars Downtown opened this week, after more than a year spent converting a former office building into a restaurant.

The restaurant, the ninth in entrepreneur Bruce Gerleman’s chain of barbeque establishments, is …

McAninch Corp., a Des Moines-based excavating and earthmoving contractor, has announced it has changed to employee ownership after 56 years as a family-owned company.

McAninch CEO Doug McAninch said in a news release that the …