Economic Impact Award winners named
BUSINESS RECORD STAFF Oct 16, 2018 | 8:57 pm
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221 wordsAll Latest News, Economic DevelopmentNine Central Iowa business have received Economic Impact Awards from the Business Record and the Greater Des Moines Partnership. They are:
— Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Co., a 109-year-old company that acts as a privately owned, independent bottler of Coke products, which decided to move back to Des Moines’ south side from Waukee to expand.
— Facebook, which turned a 120-acre server farm project in Altoona into a 400-acre development powered by renewable energy. An expansion has 1,100 construction workers on-site.
— Global Atlantic Financial Group Ltd., whose subsidiary Accordia Life and Annuity Co. expanded its office in the Davis Brown Tower.
— Holmes Murphy, which moved into a new office building in the Kettlestone area in Waukee this year.
— Hy-Vee Inc., which built a 202,000-square-foot building in Ankeny to produce bakery items and ready-to-eat foods. Subsidiary Perishable Distributors of Iowa is expanding its warehouse in Ankeny.
— IMT Insurance, which is building an 85,000-square-foot headquarters in West Des Moines.
— Kum & Go, which is constructing a new headquarters designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano across the street from Western Gateway Park in downtown Des Moines.
— Siegwerk USA, which built a 42,000-square-foot warehouse on the south side of Des Moines.
— Windsor Windows & Doors, which built an $11 million, 160,000-square-foot manufacturing complex in Norwalk that will employ 130.