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Oakmont Education has announced a new Davenport location of Great Oaks High School & Career Center, a tuition-free public charter high school, will open in fall 2026. Designed for students ages 16-21, ...

Community State Bank’s new headquarters on the northeast side of Ankeny is almost ready for its employees to call it home. The final touches are being put on the four-story, 71,000-square-foot ...

The Great Outdoors Foundation has announced a joint investment with Microsoft to support stormwater wetland and prairie restoration efforts at the Legacy Woods Nature Sanctuary planned in West Des ...

When the markets started sliding recently, I was reminded of the dot-com bust in the late 90s, when I was working on Wall Street at an investment management firm. I still remember sitting in a ...

Neighborhood Finance Corp., a nonprofit mortgage and home repair lending program, has increased the amount of money it is lending for its programs, making it easier for qualifying buyers to purchase ...

Iowa State University’s Ivy College of Business has announced the launch of the Murray G. Bacon Center for AI Ethics in Business, a new initiative aimed at advancing ethical leadership in artificial ...

An asset management company has acquired property in Ankeny on which Sysco Food Services of Iowa is located, Polk County real estate records show. Kyle Gamble has been named president and CEO of ...

Emily Wood is special projects editor at Business Record. She covers nonprofits and philanthropy, HR and leadership, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Jeff Pomeranz was city manager in West Des Moines when the community was approached around 2008 by a consultant looking for land on which to build a data center for Microsoft Corp. At the time, ...

Winterset, Iowa – Every month or so, when Gina Robinson was an administrator for the Winterset school district, she would set a marble on the floor of her office and watch as it rolled to a corner of ...