What Is Downtown Des Moines Best Nightspot?

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, [...]

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Downtown Des Moines Blog Announces Huge Changes

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 [...]

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Downtown Des Moines Blog Shut Down?

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 [...]

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Coming To Downtown Des Moines In December

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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Gateway Lofts Mid Week Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux0Q39pxhm4

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Iowa Energy Finally Here

The Iowa Energy had their home opener last night over at Wells Fargo Arena. If you’re keeping track, that now gives downtown Des Moines residents pro baseball (I-Cubs), pro basketball (Energy), pro hockey (Stars) and coming soon, Arena Football. All in all it’s quite exciting for downtown Des Moines.
Here’s what the Register had [...]

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Downtown Des Moines Photo Tour

Since Feb. 14–the date that this site was officially started, we’ve got some great pictures of downtown Des Moines. Here are some of our favorites, a tour of downtown made just for you.

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Downtown Des Moines Black Friday

Now that we’ve had this:

And you’ve enjoyed this:

It’s time for this:

If you want to get something unique, and you want to get gifts that people won’t get from everyone else……Be sure you spend at least some of your time shopping downtown and in the East Village.
It’s not just the shops either.  Restaurants, entertainment, gift certificates, [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving Des Moines

Did you remember to bring everything with you to the biggest meal of the year?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9-ctuBFAUg

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Geothermal Heating Downtown

Here’s our Wednesday video of a few owners at Brownstones on Grand discussing how energy efficient their new home is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA0kbwcwMOQ

 

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