The Great Outdoors Foundation has announced a joint investment with Microsoft to support stormwater wetland and prairie restoration efforts at the Legacy Woods Nature Sanctuary planned in West Des ...

The West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce and its young professionals group, West YP, have announced a partnership with Dan Houston, former president and CEO of Principal Financial Group, aimed at ...

Iowa State University’s Ivy College of Business has announced the launch of the Murray G. Bacon Center for AI Ethics in Business, a new initiative aimed at advancing ethical leadership in artificial ...

Before Des Moines Performing Arts announced next season’s Broadway lineup Wednesday morning, its new president and CEO, Monica Holt, backed it up with a personal promise: “If someone can’t find ...

Neighborhood Finance Corp., a nonprofit mortgage and home repair lending program, has increased the amount of money it is lending for its programs, making it easier for qualifying buyers to purchase ...

Jeff Pomeranz was city manager in West Des Moines when the community was approached around 2008 by a consultant looking for land on which to build a data center for Microsoft Corp. At the time, ...

Emily Wood is special projects editor at Business Record. She covers nonprofits and philanthropy, HR and leadership, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

A longtime southwestern Iowa shoe wholesaler has relocated its headquarters to Dallas Center, where its management team hopes the company will be able to find employees and other resources to help it ...

A recent review of Business Record archives found at least 552 executive leadership changes have happened in the Des Moines area since 2020. One-third of those changes, 211, occurred between 2024 and ...

The Anthem development in Huxley includes apartments designed for young professionals. It is a 120-acre mixed-use development that will also include a senior living campus, retail, space for light ...

The Technology Association of Iowa recently hosted the Iowa Data Center Summit, which was meant in part to ask how Iowa can balance demand for data centers and environmental responsibility. While ...