Oakmont Education has announced a new Davenport location of Great Oaks High School & Career Center, a tuition-free public charter high school, will open in fall 2026. Designed for students ages 16-21, ...

When the markets started sliding recently, I was reminded of the dot-com bust in the late 90s, when I was working on Wall Street at an investment management firm. I still remember sitting in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

According to the Alliance for Lifetime Income, more than 4.1 million Americans will hit the retirement age of 65 through the year 2027. That’s over 11,200 people every day. The trend is more ...

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 165 new commercial and multifamily projects were issued in 2025 in the Greater Des Moines area, a Business Record review shows. The value of the new projects exceeds $893.3 ...

800 Walnut St., also known as the Skyview Building, is among the properties an Iowa-based holding company has purchased from Wells Fargo. Pictured below are interior photos of the Skyview Building, ...