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1 week ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Sarah Diehn
ChildServe announced the organization raised $1,029,253 at its 15th annual Bubble Ball event on April 12. The event hosted more than 1,700 attendees, a record number for the event. “Each year, we are deeply humbled by the philanthropic spirit of our event sponsors, designers, volunteers and community members, whose generosity has a lasting impact on ChildServe.
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1 week ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Sarah Diehn
The valuation of residential property grew by an average of 9.9% in Polk County and 4.5% in Dallas County in this year’s reassessment of property values, officials with the counties said. The increases are substantially less than what occurred in 2023 when homeowners in Polk County saw their properties’ value increase an average of 21.9% and those in Dallas County experienced average increases of 14%.
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1 week ago | 
businessrecord.com | Michael Crumb |Kathy A. Bolten |Sarah Diehn
The Business Record has hired two new reporters, Gigi Wood and Lisa Rossi, who will support our mission of helping businesses do business better. Wood and Rossi both joined the Business Record in late February. Wood has joined the team as a senior staff writer and will cover economic development, government policy and law, agriculture, energy, and manufacturing.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Michael Crumb |Sarah Diehn
The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board on Friday approved awards for various businesses and public projects across the state, which will create 16 jobs and result in $72.7 million new capital investment. Mrs. Clark’s Foods in Ankeny, which manufactures salad dressing and other food products, was awarded tax benefits through the High Quality Jobs program. The company plans to build a 90,000-square-foot building and buy new equipment to accommodate an additional line.
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1 month ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Mike Mendenhall |Sarah Diehn
When Judd O’Connor had the opportunity to join Corteva Agriscience, then Pioneer, in 1999, it was a pivotal time for innovation in the seed industry. “Biotechnology was really entering into the fray at that point in time and the work, the R&D that was going on in the seed industry was so important to what was going to be the next decade two, three, four to where we are today in agriculture,” O’Connor said.
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2 months ago | 
businessrecord.com | Kathy A. Bolten |Michael Crumb |Sarah Diehn
In 2006, Adam Keune arrived at the University of Iowa as a business student drawn to entrepreneurship. The university’s John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC) was his opportunity to explore that path, which would ultimately bring him back to the school in a new role almost 20 years later. With help from the JPEC, he co-founded a startup that he scaled for more than 10 years and stayed involved with the center as a board member and entrepreneur-in-residence.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
businessrecord.com | Dave Elbert |Sarah Diehn |Kathy A. Bolten
Bank Iowa, headquartered in West Des Moines, paid Penta Partners LLC $4.3 million for property at 5580 Merle Hay Road in Johnston, Polk County real estate records show. The property includes a newly constructed branch bank office. The retail location, which opened in October, replaced a previous location at 5525 Merle Hay Road. The transaction was recorded Jan. 13.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
businessrecord.com | Dave Elbert |Sarah Diehn |Michael Crumb
Work has begun on the planned 33-story 515 Walnut building with crews digging holes for the foundation that will support the towering structure that those involved in the project say will not only change the downtown skyline but help drive activity that will add to the growing sense of vibrancy in the city. Joe Teeling, head of development for St. Joseph Group, and his partner Seth Sojka, are working with BD Construction and its founders Andrew Beal and Michael Derkenne on the project.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
businessrecord.com | Dave Elbert |Sarah Diehn |Michael Crumb
Holmes Murphy & Associates has signed a lease and will expand into the newly renovated Arcadia building in West Des Moines. The move was necessary to accommodate the insurance broker’s growth, and it will occupy about 75,000 square feet in the building at 7000 Vista Drive, joining ITA Group as a tenant.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
businessrecord.com | Dave Elbert |Sarah Diehn |Michael Crumb
The city of Slater has issued a request for proposals to redevelop a building on the town’s Main Street to create a new food and dining experience in the community of about 1,600 people. According to the RFP, the city purchased the building at 321 Main St. and invested more than $140,000 in structural repairs to preserve it and create an opportunity for a mixed-used development with an emphasis on bringing new food options to the city, about a half hour north of Des Moines.
