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More mobile, convenient eating and shopping options here to stay

By summer’s end, Michael Whalen’s Heart of America Group plans to open Hyper Energy Bars in three Des Moines suburbs: Grimes, Waukee and West Des Moines.


The coffee and energy drink bar will only have …

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Big Grove Brewery expanding to D.M., in Sherman Hill area

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Big Grove, the eastern Iowa brewery with locations in Iowa City and Solon, will be expanding to Des Moines. Big Grove Brewery will be part of a development by Krause+, the real estate …

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NOTEBOOK: Cyber threat level against private businesses urgent, White House warns in national memo

Des Moines Area Community College recently announced an investigation into a cybersecurity incident first identified on June 2. The investigation prompted DMACC’s information technology department to voluntarily shut down all online instruction and the telephone …

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Beaverdale businesses offer discounts with vaccination card program

The Beaverdale business community has launched the Beaverdale Community Immunity Cards program, an effort to encourage COVID-19 vaccination within the Beaverdale neighborhood. From now through September, anyone who gets their final COVID-19 vaccine shot at one of …

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Casey’s earnings report shows fuel consumption on the rise

Vehicle fuel consumption in Middle America is on the rise, a sign people are comfortable traveling instead of staying close to home because of the pandemic, an earnings report released this week by an Ankeny-based …

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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Saying goodbye to the millennial lifestyle subsidy

I was among those folks who just scratched their heads wondering how some of the popular online lifestyle convenience services my younger colleagues and neighbors would use — DoorDash, Uber, Airbnb and others — could …

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Restaurant revenue is returning – but workers remain scarce

Chris Diebel was at Bubba – Southern Comforts restaurant helping seat guests when a person approached him about applying for a job.

It was 5:45 p.m. on a Friday and the downtown restaurant was busy. …

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Design of new Kohl’s store approved by Des Moines board

Kohl’s plans to build a new store at Merle Hay Mall on the site where Sears had been located. The building that housed Sears has been demolished. Kohl’s, which currently is located on the west…
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New masonry supply center opens in Des Moines area


Brickworks North America, parent company of Glen-Gery, has opened a new masonry supply center in the Greater Des Moines area. The 25,000-square-foot supply center, located at 4601 N.W. Urbandale Drive in Urbandale, includes a consultation …

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Fareway gets final approval to building meat market in Beaverdale

Des Moines Register: The Des Moines City Council on Monday, unanimously approved plans by Fareway to build a meat market near the corner of Beaver and Urbandale avenues. The Boone-based grocer plans on demolishing a house …