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 ...

More than a year after the Bondurant City Council adopted the Grain District Downtown Redevelopment Plan, work is progressing to transform the former Landus grain elevator site into a vibrant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Iowa Economic Development Authority board voted today to award $23.5 million from the Iowa Reinvestment Act for a pro soccer stadium and global plaza on the former Dico Inc. site near downtown Des ...

The new 86,000-square-foot Alliant Energy Agriculture Innovation Lab at the Iowa State University Research Park opened last week, creating a hub for “service-driven innovation,” said Matt Darr, the ...

The number of building permits issued for the construction of single-family houses and townhome units slipped to 3,226 in 2025, down 5.5% from the previous year, data collected by the Home Builders ...

Jay Byers is being remembered as a man who helped shape Des Moines’ future through his innovation and who was the special ingredient in the “secret sauce” that he often said made the Des Moines metro ...

A law goes into effect July 1 that allows owners of single-family lots in Iowa to add an accessory dwelling unit to their property. The graphic above shows different ways the secondary housing units ...

The Business Record’s 2025 innovationIOWA Magazine was unveiled at our annual innovationIOWA event Thursday in Des Moines. We posed a question to several successful Iowa innovators: How did you get ...

ClaimDOC relocated from downtown to West Des Moines in mid-2021 because there wasn’t enough space for its growing workforce. Four years later, the company is nearly out of space again. In early May, ...