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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and a 12-member delegation have returned from a trade mission to Vietnam and Indonesia. The mission, coordinated by the Iowa Economic Development Authority, ...

Twelve percent fewer building permits were issued for the construction of single-family homes and townhouses in the Greater Des Moines area in the first 10 months of 2025 than were issued during the ...

The Des Moines City Council will consider a resolution Monday supporting the expansion of the Capital City Redevelopment District to include the Market District development, along with $13 million ...