The Iowa Business Council announced its 2026 public policy priorities at its final board meeting of 2025. The council’s 2026 public policy priorities include: “Our 2026 public policy priorities focus ...

Minnesota-based business technology provider Marco Technologies has announced the opening of a new 100,000-square-foot logistics center in Bondurant as part of its strategy to expand national ...

Just over 3,100 building permits for single-family houses and townhome units are expected to be issued in the Greater Des Moines area in 2025, the fewest since 2021, data from the Home Builders ...

The Business Record recently assembled a group of experts to talk about the Des Moines area housing sector and its outlook for 2026. Panelists who took part in the Business Record’s Project515 on ...

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

Building permits for 76 new commercial and multifamily projects have been issued in the first six months of 2025 in the Greater Des Moines area, a Business Record review shows. The value of the ...

A rendering of the Joyce E. Lillis School of Nursing that will replace a vacant 12,000 square-foot building on Mercy’s campus. Rendering courtesy Invision Architecture Mercy College of Health Sciences ...

Robinson Inc., a metal fabricator based in De Pere, Wis., is planning to expand to Altoona. Construction is expected to begin on the Altoona site in spring 2026 with the plant becoming operational in ...

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 ...

Bravo Greater Des Moines announced Monday its annual Bravo Awards Gala honorees. The two Bravo-funded organizations receiving the 2026 Spotlight Awards are Living History Farms and Mainframe Studios.

This rendering shows the 515 Walnut Tower looking from the south toward downtown Des Moines. Work on the project has been paused for two weeks because of a delay in closing a construction loan that ...

James Johnson grew up in southwest Iowa, where he helped with his family’s farming operations. The Gravity, Iowa-native wanted to stay involved with agriculture but not necessarily as a farmer. In his ...