World Reknown Chef Bringing His Cuisine To Des Moines

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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 [...]

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The New Gateway Market

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, [...]

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NCAA Women’s Tourney Coming To Des Moines

If you read your copy of the Des Moines Register today I’m sure you noticed that a h-u-g-e event is coming to the Wells Fargo Arena next year.  Women’s March Madness!  What, you missed this one?  Here’s your link.
Now I’ll be the first to tell you that women’s basketball is hardly the most exciting event [...]

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Exciting Changes Downtown

The more time I spend researching, experiencing and observing the changes going on downtown I am amazed.  When I graduated from high school in 1998 I thought Des Moines was DOA.
In the last 10 years the changes have been amazing.  There is a huge shift to move entertainment, eating, cultural experience and even living to [...]

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Downtown Hotel Proposal

If you haven’t been paying attention, there’s a big push to get a new hotel built north of Vets and Wells Fargo Arena.
This week several presentations were made, and the ugliest one was of course chosen.  This new hotel is going to be a big part of the skyline, so I guess in the spirit [...]

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New Downtown Nightlife Coming Soon

If you haven’t picked up a copy of this week’s Juice, or you haven’t been to their site yet–do it!  This week they feature a bunch of new nightlife upgrades coming to downtown Des Moines.
You can read the article by clicking here.
I’m really excited about all the changes coming.  These places, and the ones that [...]

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NBA D-League to Des Moines

I caught Keith Murphy on the news tonight talking about a potential deal that would bring a NBA Development League team to Des Moines.
If you don’t know the D-League is just like the minor leagues for baseball. This team would be to an NBA team what the I-Cubs are to the Chicago Cubs, and [...]

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