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

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Now to part 6, which asks the very simple question:
What place building, or place to live is your favorite downtown?
This brought in a vast assortment of answers. It’s my guess that since architecture is art, everyone has their own eye.
Enough rambling–let’s get on with our answers. Downtown residents love:

In what may seem like a blast from the past, here is part 4 of the ongoing series detailing what people that live downtown love about it.
This time we asked “What is your favorite yearly event.”

Enjoy July 4, a day all American’s should celebrate. In our 231 years of existence over 1,000,000 people have given their lives for us to be free….That’s more than 2 people for every one person living in the Des Moines area.
Take the day and celebrate what it means to be free. All of [...]

All of us have dreams.  There’s things we want to do, to be, to have, to see, to experience and so on.  The problem that many of us face is that there is not very many people that are excited about your dreams, or will encourage you to pursue them.
I want it to be known [...]

 
I finally made my way over to inPlay last week, and had a chance to meet with the General Manager, Michael Stessman.
I was really surprised by what I found at inPlay, which stands for indoor play.  (for those of you wondering why the name was written that way!)  Not only do they have a great [...]

I am really excited about going to more Cubs games this summer.  What great entertainment within walking distance of home!

If you happened to see the Des Moines Register’s front page on Friday you no doubt saw that property assessments have gone up by 6.9%. We all know that now everyone is looking at a tax hike in their property taxes as well.
Property taxes are ridiculous already, so tax increases are never something to [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]