Jul 13, 2011

Ever had one of those days where you know you forgot to bring anything for lunch and know you will have no time to take a lunch break? Yeah, that was my Monday, well it is most Monday’s, but let’s just stick with this Monday for this purpose. On Monday my stomach was kicking me for not feeding it, yet I knew I only had a few minutes to grab something to...

Jun 6, 2011

Well, looking over the Tweets from this weekend it appears that most of Des Moines, and quite a few guests, visited downtown at least once – which is a great thing. On Saturday morning there was the Dam to Dam race, the Downtown Farmers Market and pretty fantastic weather. Let’s look at the reflection: Well, this never happens in Des Moines –...

May 9, 2011

We are finding out that most people fail to use the words Des Moines in there Tweets unless they are checking in on Foursquare or hating on our great city.  We realize that makes sense, but wish more of the juicy Tweets were available to truly tell the story of the weekend. That said, we still picked out a good list to tell the story. Let’s start with...

Jul 14, 2010

The Why eat at a chain Wednesday posts usually involve an experience eating AT the establishment. Those experiences have driven many of the previous posts, yet I like to switch it up everyone and a while to keep the experience fresh. So, this time we worked it out to have the establishment come to us. For starters, I want to make it known I had no idea Northern...

Jul 24, 2009

Please find the Friday Guest Blog below. This was written by Shawn Harrington  In 2007, when I first joined the YPC Impact Downtown Committee, what I found were individuals passionate about making an impact on downtown that could eventually spread across greater Des Moines.  Coming into the close of that year, we began establishing our committee’s future...