1930 – Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg open a small grocery and dry goods store in Beaconsfield, Iowa. In 1933, the men begin calling the store Hyde & Vredenburg. 1938 – Hyde and Vredenburg with 14 ...

New renderings of the Ignit Sports and Fitness complex in Johnston were recently released by Emergent Architecture, the project’s architect. Construction of the $55 million project is underway on ...

The Iowa Economic Development Authority board today awarded four Business Incentives for Growth tax credits and assistance for six startups. The Business Incentives for Growth, or BIG, program helps ...

Samantha Mosser will become president of Bankers Trust on Aug. 1, the bank announced today. Mosser currently is Bankers Trust’s Nebraska president, a position she’s held since February 2022. “One of ...

Jay Wang, owner of Wasabi, is developing a strip center that will house four retail tenants on 36th Street near Costco in Ankeny. He said the regional draw of Costco and the anticipated development in ...

The West Des Moines Leadership Academy has announced 42 leaders who will participate in the program’s 2025-2026 class. The nine-month program aims to guide participants through experiential learning, ...

Erin Hockman is no stranger to the Des Moines metro. And she is no stranger to the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority, where she worked in various roles for 10 years before rising to the ...

After becoming one of the early adopters of a farming practice that would forever change animal agriculture, the Faaborg family in Radcliffe is swapping its concentrated animal feeding operation for ...

Shopping malls, which used to be a hub of retail activity — and an after-school and weekend hangout for teenagers — are struggling to maintain relevance as consumers seek experiential shopping ...

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, ...

A conceptual site plan for a new Microsoft data center along Veterans Parkway in West Des Moines. The West Des Moines City Council approved a development agreement for the data center on Monday. Image ...

Wells Fargo will lay off 20 employees in September from its Jordan Creek campus in West Des Moines, according to the Iowa Worker Adjustment and Retraining, or WARN website. The latest layoffs, which ...