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3 weeks ago | 
jaxtoday.org | Michelle Corum |Mike Mendenhall
Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. Sign up for the Jacksonville Today newsletter. Step-by-step, more than 350 people climbed 734 steps to the top of the Bank of America Tower on March 22 to raise money in support of the Lung Association research. The fundraiser has participants scale Jacksonville’s tallest skyscraper. At 617 feet tall and with 42 floors, the Bank of America tower (formerly known as the Barnett Center), has been the tallest in Jacksonville since 1990.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Michael Morain |Lisa Rossi |Mike Mendenhall |Kathy A. Bolten
By Michael MorainAfter a decade of stops and starts, the historic Ingersoll Theatre is preparing for its next act. The current owners plan to reopen it around Nov. 15 as a dinner theater and hot spot for concerts, comedy and more. In the summer of 2022, local developer Connor Delaney’s holding company Delaney Enterprises bought the property for $550,000 from its longtime owners, the Lee family.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Mike Mendenhall |Kathy A. Bolten |Michael Crumb
The Greater Des Moines Partnership has announced the 2025 dates for its intern professional development series, DSM Intern Connection. The series aims to connect college-age interns with community leaders and executives, as well as opportunities to network with fellow students. The events are free to all college-age interns working in Greater Des Moines. Students who complete three of the four events are invited to attend an exclusive Executive Luncheon event at the Embassy Club Downtown.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Mike Mendenhall |Kathy A. Bolten |Michael Crumb
The American Institute for Full Employment (AIFE) has named Iowa Workforce Development as the recipient of its 2024 Full Employment Award. The national award is given each year to one or more states or individuals demonstrating a commitment to excellence in helping job seekers become reemployed, a news release said. Iowa previously won the award in 2022.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Mike Mendenhall |Kathy A. Bolten |Michael Crumb |Lisa Rossi
The 80/35 music festival, the two-day festival that over the years has attracted musicians to Des Moines ranging from Lizzo to the Flaming Lips to the Avett Brothers, is canceled for 2025, a past organizer told the Business Record.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Mike Mendenhall
Nominations for the Robert D. Ray Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award are now open through April 15. The Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award was established in 2013 to recognize a current Iowan who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in uplifting their community with dedicated humanitarian service that confronts hunger either at home or abroad.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Mike Mendenhall
Big Grove Brewery has launched a new micro-grant program to offer direct funding to local projects aiming to enhance or revitalize neighborhoods. The grants will be funded by sales of Big Grove’s new lager, Neighborhood Beer, with $1 for every case sold going back to the grant program. Big Grove has created a private nonprofit Big Grove for Good Foundation to manage the program and distribute the funds.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Mike Mendenhall
Retirement services company Athene, headquartered in West Des Moines, has committed $300,000 to WesleyLife Meals on Wheels over a three-year period. The gift will pay for an estimated 31,000 meals over three years for food-insecure and socially isolated older adults and military veterans in Central Iowa.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Mike Mendenhall
The Iowa Finance Authority board of directors has awarded $100,000 in State Housing Trust Fund grants to Habitat for Humanity affiliates to support the construction of homes in Boone and Knoxville. The award is funded by the State Housing Trust Fund’s Project-Based Housing Program. Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity Boone received $50,000. This grant and other awards will go toward the construction of a 1,280-square-foot home on an infill lot in Boone.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Mike Mendenhall
About three months ago, restaurant manager Stacy Dullard paid $37 for 180 farm-fresh eggs. Today’s price for the same number of eggs? $122, a more than threefold increase since December. “That’s significant,” said Dullard, general manager of HomeGrown Des Moines-Crescent at 555 17th St.In January 2024, the average price of a dozen Grade A large eggs in the U.S. was $2.52, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. A year later, the price had soared to $4.95, a record high.
