Have you seen www.downtowndesmoines.com?  I suggest you take a look see, they did a pretty good job.

On May 29, 2007 this site went over the 20,000 hit mark!  That’s really exciting as that’s 20,000 times that someone has searched for information, or read about urban living in downtown Des Moines!
This site started on February 14, 2007 and before June we’ve already had over 20,000 hits–not too shabby!
I wanted to take a [...]

Whew!  I met with Jake Christensen with Nelson Development (418 Liberty among other projects), he shared some of what is to come downtown and a little secret about East Village.  I also met with Michael Stessman the general manager of inPlay, stopped by the Kirkwood, visited Ligutti Tower, and visited my grandfather at the VA [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
I want to let everyone know of two websites that I have read to keep me up to date with the construction going on around downtown.
AbsoluteDSM and KnowDowntown.
By spending a few minutes you can see what’s going on and what that new building being constructed is.
My favorite feature is the housing presentation powerpoint on absolutedsm.  [...]