Whew!  I met with Jake Christensen with Nelson Development (418 Liberty among other projects), he shared some of what is to come downtown and a little secret about East Village.  I also met with Michael Stessman the general manager of inPlay, stopped by the Kirkwood, visited Ligutti Tower, and visited my grandfather at the VA [...]

I am proud to announce that The Kirkwood has become the official sponsor of this website.

If you haven’t yet seen The Kirkwood and you are considering living downtown you must be sure to check out The Kirkwood. They have done a wonderful job of perserving the swank history of The Kirkwood, and also providing [...]

One of the readers here sent me a note to pass along–to a demographic of my readers that would surely be excited about this.
Saturday there is a big craft show coming downtown. Want more info?
Here’s your link:
small town fun craft show

I am really excited about going to more Cubs games this summer.  What great entertainment within walking distance of home!

If you’ve read through your copy of the Des Moines Register today I’m sure you noticed the story about Waukee’s proposal to how they’ll spend the Project Destiny money.  If not, it can be found here.
Waukee drops tax relief from ‘Destiny proposal
The title to the article tells you all you need to know.  Sell the [...]

I spent Sunday afternoon viewing several properties for sale downtown.  I got a chance to see:
Ingersoll Square (yep, it’s open although not yet done–maybe 2-4 weeks out)
Equitable ($900,000+ unit!)
SOHO
Mulberry Lofts
Brown Camp AND Tone Lofts (Tone Lofts are amazing!)
Park Place
I’d seen many of these buildings before, but it’s great to go back through and find out [...]

If you happened to see the Des Moines Register’s front page on Friday you no doubt saw that property assessments have gone up by 6.9%. We all know that now everyone is looking at a tax hike in their property taxes as well.
Property taxes are ridiculous already, so tax increases are never something to [...]

Wow, I hope to see more weekends like this for downtown. Well, more like this on an amounto of things to do scale. I didn’t attend any of these, but there were 10’s of thousands that did.
I-Cubs first home stand
Kenny Chesney concert at Wells Fargo Arena Friday night
Rod Stewart concert at Wells Fargo [...]

The Des Moines Register added another story this week to their series on living downtown.
This week focused in on some empty-nesters and Mulberry Lofts.
Here’s your link.

The I-Cubs returned home last night for their home opener.  Good news, they won 4-1 and ended the night with a huge fireworks display.
I’m excited to see how many ball games I’ll attend when I just have to walk over to the park.  Heck, for as little as $6 for tickets, I bet I see [...]