With Brett Fine, our site real estate expert, and “Your Downtown Realtor.”

1. What made you decide to move your office downtown?
I have always loved downtown and I will be moving there shortly. Also, there is not currently an office downtown. I think that people who are thinking of moving there don’t really know where to [...]

I’d like to introduce you to Trina Braffhart, the property manager at The Kirkwood.  She was kind enough to allow us to interview her and do a little feature about her on the site.

How long have you been associated with The Kirkwood?
I started hunting down the owners of the Kirkwood last summer when I visited [...]

Written by, and featuring Jo Hill!
 
I have lived downtown for almost two years and plan to remain downtown as long as possible. I live at Ligutti Tower.
I had worked as a volunteer at Ysleta Lutheran Mission in El Paso, and planned to stay there much longer.  But when my youngest grandchild was born I felt it [...]

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 [...]

If you recall last week I announced that I had some invites available to The Kirkwood grand opening and ribbon cutting event.  I only gave about a 36 hour notice but ended up having about a dozen people come out to the party–it was great to meet all of you.
There were 10-20 others that would [...]

 
I sat down today with Trina Braafhart, property manager at The Kirkwood.  She has allowed me to pass along a special invitation to you.
Thursday, April 5 from 5:00-8:00 pm there is a special event going on at The Kirkwood that the readers of this site have been invited to!
The Kirkwood along with Metro Engineering Inc. [...]

Last Thursday I had the great opportunity to attend the Downtown Neighborhood Association meeting.  This particular meeting was held at the new Gateway Market, at the corner of MLK and Woodland Ave.  (side note, I’ll be meeting with the owners soon, hopefully I’ll have some great news for you)
I must say I was impressed with [...]

Thursday I will be attending two events, if you’re going to be in attendence I’d love to meet you.
At noon I’ll be attending the Impact Downtown meeting.  And at 7pm I’ll be attending the Downtown Neighborhood Association’s social event at The Gateway Market.
I’ll see you there!

I got to spend a few hours outside on Friday, yes I said outside. I spent some time in the sky-walks too, but there were sightings of me walking through the streets of Des Moines.
I finally was freed up long enough to get out and meet a few people on Friday afternoon. So [...]