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This June the Gateway Market is hosting the nation’s foremost expert on Mexican cuisine, Rick Bayless. Mr. Bayless will be demostrating his work all day, teaching and showing all in attendance how to create excellent Mexican cuisine.
There will also be a dinner that evening hosted at the Hotel Fort Des Moines where [...]
I’m planning a few get together’s for later this spring and this summer. I’m just in the planning stages right now–but I’d love to hear what you think about this. Please leave a comment below, or send me an email at josh@downtowndesmoinesblog.com.
Would you be interested in having a special members only event to tour properties, [...]
I sat down this week with Paul Rottenberg to discuss his newest venture, The Gateway Market. If you haven’t yet heard of this project, welcome to earth, if you have, I’m sure you’re very excited about it!
Mr. Rottenberg is the owner of Orchestrate Management Co, they manage Raccoon River Brewing Company, Hotel Ft. Des Moines, [...]
I’ve had several people ask me how my traffic here has been going, so I’m going to make this public knowledge. I’m pretty impressed, especially when you consider that every single person that visits this web site has one reason to read–downtown Des Moines.
In April I’m on pace to be near 10,000 page views!! That [...]
Waking up this morning, April 11 to snow? Are you kidding me?
DARN YOU AL GORE!!!!!
I don’t know if you’ve caught wind of the news, but Des Moines is feeling the love from Forbes Magazine. They recently ranked Des Moines #4 in their list of the best places for business and career.
Take that (enter big city around us here!)
Here’s a few links for reading.
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/1/07bestplaces_Des-Moines-IA_2856.html
http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/04/05/best-cities-business-biz-07bestplaces-cz_kb_0405bestplacesintro.html
I’ll be the first to say that [...]
When my wife and I got married 5 and a half years ago we had our reception downtown at The Marriott. I can’t tell you how much fun we had there, and how great it was to be right in the middle of the city for that day.
We were married in October so my wife [...]
I hope that you had a wonderful Easter. I’ve always loved Easter, I think it’s a holiday that should be way more important than it is. It’s kind of sad that the celebration of Jesus birth has become about Santa and the celebration of His resurrection has become about the Easter Bunny.
This year we headed [...]
I’ve had the chance to meet many people that make downtown Des Moines their home. I wanted to introduce you to them, and give them a chance to share what they love, and don’t love, and why they chose to move downtown.
Since moving downtown is about a lifestyle change I think it would be nice [...]
The Des Moines Register now has a weekly feature every Saturday that I’m sure the great folks that frequent this site would enjoy. They have quite a large article, with many pictures, featuring someone that lives downtown. They’ll talk about where they live, what they do, what they enjoy and the like.
These artitcles [...]
