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Kum & Go plans its first urban convenience store in downtown Des Moines

Des Moines Register: Kum & Go will open an urban convenience store in downtown Des Moines, a new concept for the locally-owned gas station chain. Its 3,000-square-foot store will be located in the renovated Edna M. …
By BPC Staff | Oct 23, 2019
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Austin-based dine-in movie chain will likely anchor Court Avenue commercial development

A rendering by architects Solomon Cordwell Buenz shows the five-story commercial building planned at Fifth and Court avenues. Developer Justin Mandelbaum is in negotiations with an Austin, Texas, movie chain to anchor the project. Rendering special …
By KATHY A. BOLTEN | Oct 17, 2019
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Casey’s General Stores announces Tom Brennan as chief merchandising officer

Casey’s General Stores Inc. has named Tom Brennan as chief merchandising officer, the company announced today. Brennan joins Casey’s from CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the parent of fast-food chains Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, where he …
By BPC Staff | Oct 16, 2019
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Iowa leaders, farmers pleased but cautious about Trump’s China trade agreement

Des Moines Register: Iowa politicians, farmers and business leaders were cautiously optimistic about a Chinese trade agreement that President Donald Trump announced “in principle” Friday. But some said they wanted more specifics from the White House, …
By BPC Staff | Oct 14, 2019
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Kum & Go plans redevelopment of Drake convenience store

Kum & Go plans to tear down an aged convenience store and adjacent 107-year-old apartment building in the Drake neighborhood and build a modern marketplace store with eight fueling pumps.

The proposed project at 3104 …
By KATHY A. BOLTEN | Oct 10, 2019
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Mad Meatball reopening in new apartment project

Mad Meatball, a popular pizzeria formerly located at Southeast Fifth Street and East Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, has a new home.

The restaurant will reopen in spring 2020 in ground-floor space at Linc at …
By KATHY A. BOLTEN | Oct 7, 2019
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Hy-Vee investigation finds malware on payment systems at fuel pumps, drive-thrus, restaurants

Hy-Vee Inc. released a new database for shoppers worried their credit or debit card information may be at risk from the payment data breach first reported on Aug. 14. 

An investigation found malware designed to …
By BUSINESS RECORD STAFF | Oct 4, 2019
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Forever 21 at Outlets of Des Moines in Altoona may close

Des Moines Register: Forever 21, a fast fashion retailer known for their trendy clothing styles and cheap prices, released a list of stores that could close as part of the company’s bankruptcy. On that list …
By BPC Staff | Oct 2, 2019
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NOTEBOOK: The story behind how Sears came to be a tenant in Merle Hay Mall

Elizabeth Holland, chairman and general counsel of the Chicago-based Abbell Associates, was a keynote speaker at last week’s annual Iowa Commercial Real Estate Association Expo.

Holland’s grandfather, Joseph Abbell with others, developed Merle Hay Mall. …
By KATHY A. BOLTEN | Oct 2, 2019
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Legislation backed by Ernst would open SBA programs to child care providers

Sen. Joni Ernst announced she is co-sponsoring a bill with Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen that would enable nonprofit child care providers to use all of the Small Business Administration’s capital access programs, a move …
By BPC Staff | Sep 27, 2019