Knapp Properties recently unveiled plans for a downtown residential project located at 420 Court Ave. The 81 new units will be above the Hy-Vee grocery store that’s currently under construction in the Court Avenue Entertainment District. The store is slated to open in the winter of 2016, and the
Read More →Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity has opened a new resale shop, ReStore, with its second metro area store at 4033 N.W. Urbandale Drive in Urbandale. The 25,000-square-foot building provides discounted wares to retail shoppers, remodelers and house-flippers. Habitat’s first local ReStore originally opened on Second Avenue in 2003, and
Read More →A proposed downtown 32-story skyscraper, set for Fifth and Court avenues, has cleared its biggest hurdle by gaining recent approval by the Des Moines City Council. The planned tower would be the fourth tallest building in the state and will contain 200 residential units, an upscale urban movie theater,
Read More →Jordan Creek is getting more comfortable this fall. Soft Surroundings — a women’s clothing, accessories and beauty store, which also sells goods for around the home — is slated to occupy the Tommy Hilfiger’s former location in Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines. The incoming retailer is
Read More →A new West Des Moines barbershop called “Scissors and Scotch” is set to give haircuts, facial hair trims and men’s grooming procedures — while serving Scotch. The new shop is scheduled to open next month in the Paradise Pointe shopping center on Mills Civic Parkway near Jordan Creek Town
Read More →Hy-Vee has bought the vacant 81,936 square-foot building in Urbandale that used to be K’s Merchandise. The grocery store chain bought the building at 3303 86th St. earlier this month and paid $3.6 million. The plan is to transform the old building into an employee training facility and a
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Posted April 01, 2016in On the Move
The Science Center of Central Iowa announced the sale of its downtown location at 401 West Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway to Walmart Corporation. Walmart’s corporate leaders expect to have a new supercenter operational before the doors of the upcoming Hy-Vee open, thereby being the first grocer in the downtown
Read More →Jethroni Pepperoni has arrived in Altoona. The menu includes pasta entrees, pizza, sandwiches and salads. The menu also includes specialties like chicken Marsala, steak de burgo, shrimp scampi and much more. Restaurateur Bruce Gerleman, who operates six other metro Jethro’s restaurants as well as downtown seafood restaurant Splash, has completely
Read More →Two popular buffet restaurants recently closed abruptly without giving notice to their workers or customers. Ryan’s Buffet, an all you can eat restaurant in Clive, is closed, and so is Old Country Buffet on Southeast 14th Street in Des Moines. A press release by a mother company in San Antonio
Read More →Rents for one-bedroom apartments increased 7.7 percent in Des Moines proper in 2015. Efficiencies and studios went up even faster at a clip of 10.3 percent. Larger units saw a more modest increase of 5 to 7 percent, this according to CBRE/Hubbell Commercial’s annual rent survey. Double-digit increases are rare, so
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