Across Central Iowa, industries such as finance, health care, advanced manufacturing, and others report being unable to find a sufficient number of qualified workers to fill open positions. Education Drives our Greater Economy (EDGE)Â is designed to address the critical need to solving the skills gap facing Central Iowa employers, and it is committed to improving […]
Central Iowa leaders have announced the launch of a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), which provides a vision for a healthy community environment that supports and enables all Central Iowans to live healthy lives and encourages everyone to take responsibility for their health. In alignment with the Capital Crossroads Regional Vision Plan, a steering committee […]
For the fourth year, the Polk County Housing Trust Fund (PCHTF) will celebrate Affordable Housing Week from April 11-16. The week promotes the benefits of safe, stable, and affordable housing in our community through a variety of free events. PCHTF invites you to join them to learn more about housing needs in our community. One […]
Central Iowa Communities are currently on different building and maintenance code cycles and have different code provisions that can make it difficult and confusing for businesses, developers, and residents to understand and follow code requirements. The purpose of the Central Iowa Code Consortium (CICC) is to provide a process whereby government and business/industry work together to […]
The Iowa Soil and Water Future Task Force lays out strategies and recommendations for water quality solutions The State of Iowa has a unique opportunity to invest in Iowa’s soil and water infrastructure, which is critically important to the state’s wealth and prosperity. That is the finding of the Iowa Soil and Water Future […]
The Social Capital developed the Regional Leadership Council (RLC) to elevate, connect, leverage, and amplify the efforts of community- and curriculum-based leadership programs in the Capital Crossroads region. The group has been charged with continuing to share information on programs and opportunities for collaboration, coordination, and development of new shared efforts; developing a web platform […]
The Iowa Events Center Convention Hotel will be a 330-room, eight story hotel connected to the Iowa Events Center, and will be a game-changer for Greater Des Moines’ ability to draw big conventions and events. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2018. The Iowa Events Center Convention Hotel project is a truly collaborative public/private […]
Education Drives our Great Economy, or EDGE, is a campaign supported by private and public entities with an eye to the future and a goal of helping Central Iowa businesses secure the educated, skilled workers they need – now and long into the future. EDGE is a collaborative of over 140 education, business, non-profit, and public […]
The Cultivation Corriodor has assembled a coalition to build a statewide agbioscience inventory, a first-of-its-kind resource that aggregates more than fifty data profiles about the plant, animal, and human bioscience industries in Iowa into a single, dynamically-searchable database. The Corridor-led group includes the Iowa Biotechnology Association, the Iowa Economic Development Authority, the University of Iowa, […]
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962 created the requirement for urban transportation planning and, in order to fulfill that requirement, the creation of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in urbanized areas with a population over 50,000 people. The Des Moines Area MPO fulfills this requirement for the Des Moines Urbanized Area. In existence since 1983, the […]
