R&R Realty Group boosts amenities at West Des Moines-based office park May 17, 2021
R&R Realty Group announced a major renovation of buildings seven and eight at its Regency West Office Park in West Des Moines, Iowa. Spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, the West Des Moines-based commercial real estate company set out to rethink what an office building can be.
“The pandemic has altered the world for everyone, and it’s forced commercial developers like us to become especially creative,” said Mark Ruprpecht, President of R&R Realty Group. “In the past, we were talking about a ‘war for talent’ where building amenities played a major role in employee recruitment. The pandemic interrupted that, but now as our customers are returning to their offices, they’re telling us that amenities are still very important in order to entice the workforce back to the office and to retain the workforce working in the office.”
West Des Moines-based Athene makes major donation to Central Iowa Water Trails project Kim Norvell, Des Moines Register
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West Des Moines-based retirement services company Athene has donated $1 million to the Central Iowa Water Trails project, which aims to transform 150 miles of waterways into a recreational amenity.
The donation, announced Tuesday, puts Central Iowa Water Trails at 75% of its fundraising goal of $35 million, according to a news release from the Great Outdoors Foundation. Athene Charitable Foundation has earmarked its donation for water quality improvement efforts at river access points in downtown Des Moines, including:
ViClarity moves forward with added focus on technology
Governance, risk and compliance a mainstay for global company Friday, May 7, 2021 6:00 AM ViClarityâs Board of Managers Murray Williams, board chairman
John “Ogie” Sheehy When Miriam De Dios Woodward became CEO of PolicyWorks LLC more than three years ago, the company was poised for some tremendous growth.
“The expectation when I was hired was to look at that next growth stage for the company and to make that happen,” she said.
And she has. Now, the West Des Moines-based company is entering a new chapter of global growth under a new name ViClarity.
Lawsuit âpierces corporate veilâ of John Krohnâs investment companies
Spotlight Innovation lawsuit among numerous complaints against former Principal investment broker Monday, May 3, 2021 12:24 PM Spotlight Innovation, a startup pharmaceutical technology investment firm controlled by two Iowa businessmen along with several other enterprises launched by the partners over the past several years is part of a “mere sham” being used to defraud investors in those companies, a former business associate alleges in a lawsuit in Polk County District Court.
The company’s former chief financial officer, John William “Bill” Pim, is suing John Krohn and Michael Kemery, who were officers and directors of Spotlight Innovation and another company, Gooi Global. Pim had worked for Krohn and Kemery for less than a year as chief financial officer of Spotlight Innovation and as an independent contractor with Gooi Global. Spotlight was based in