Saturday the most powerful woman in the world, as some say, will be making her way to Hy-Vee hall to make an appearance for the Obama campaign.� This event is sure to be attended by every member of the media on planet earth, as well as a few local voters who will get the chance [...]

Colder weather is in sight….

Those of you who grew up locally aren’t going to find this story to be groundbreaking, but there are a lot of people moving to the area, or that recently arrived that will enjoy this!
Have you seen this tower of light at night? Do you find yourself wondering why [...]

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In case you missed it, and I will say that with how many people forwarded this story to me not many of you did, there was a fantastic piece about downtown Des Moines in the New York Times over the weekend.  The writer did an excellent job of portraying what many of us have been [...]

Downtown Des Moines’ newest rental property will soon be opening up units!  Marketplace Lofts on Court Avenue will be opening up the units in January, which means that this property is finally nearing completion.
Hubbell is advertising these units with a “farmers market” feel to them.  I think it’s a good idea seeing as how popular [...]

Downtown Des Moines has a very diverse crowd. There are young folks, old folks, rich and poor folks–each will obviously have their own taste.
We will soon have an upcoming poll to decide what truly is the best–so here’s the question for you. What is your favorite nightspot and why? Is it inPlay, [...]

The day has finally arrived that version 3.0 of Downtown Des Moines Blog can be revealed. This time around the changes weren’t minor, and there wasn’t just a few changes made. We’ve completed overhauled the site and created what we feel is a better site in every way.
The site now is in more [...]

This site was started on February 14, 2007 and has provided exactly what it was designed for. When my own personal search for downtown housing began I could find absolutely nothing about downtown online. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t there, it just means that I was unable to find it. And if [...]

Are you one of the thousands of people looking for something to do this December? As if shopping (I thought Santa took care of that?), parties, dinners, decorating and everything else we load our calendars with isn’t enough. For those of you looking for more here’s a taste of what downtown has to [...]

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