One year after opening its new facility, the Urbandale Food Pantry has reported serving 17,215 unique individuals and 7,418 unique families between April 2025 and March 2026, underscoring increased ...

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, ...

Renee Crowell, Executive Director of The Ingersoll, shared the deeply personal story of how she and her husband Chris found their way to Des Moines — and how the timing felt undeniably right. What ...

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 ...

Community State Bank’s new headquarters on the northeast side of Ankeny is almost ready for its employees to call it home. The final touches are being put on the four-story, 71,000-square-foot ...

January 8, 2026, 4:30-7 p.m. | Hilton Des Moines Downtown Published annually in January, the Des Moines Business Record’s Book of Lists is the definitive resource guide for business professionals in ...

An asset management company has acquired property in Ankeny on which Sysco Food Services of Iowa is located, Polk County real estate records show. Kyle Gamble has been named president and CEO of ...

A new report on Iowa’s water quality policies and practices, released last week by the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement, calls for wide-ranging policy reforms, including ...

Merit Management Group, a Johnston-based private equity firm that owns and operates businesses across the trades and home-service industries, announced the acquisition of two Central Iowa companies.

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 ...

Van Meter could have two large data center campuses in its community in the coming years. Microsoft Corp. plans to build a data center campus in Vision Park, a 300-plus-acre industrial business park ...

A local radiologist plans to develop a regional medical campus in Urbandale that provides preventive and diagnostic services as well as treatment, the Business Record has learned. The campus, which ...