Get a little louder this morning. Crews will begin kicking up dirt hotel has even begun. It looks like some key funding may turn up dry. The 330 Room Convention center hotel will sit along 4th and park in downtown des moines. But with price tag of over 100 Million Dollars. The board looked to a rare Government Program for help funding. Its called eb five. And it funds us projects with green cards. Any Foreign National who invests 500 thousanddollars, is guaranteed their green card. But the plan is looking less thats because the program is currently under investigation by the department of homeland security. And its set to expire tomorrow. Now Board Members say theyll have to look for money elsewhere we are going to have to seek alternative financing thats going to take some guarantees and the like but we have been working on those alternative plans. The board was counting on the program to fund up to 20percent of the hotel. That means about 20milliondollars of the 101 Million Dollar pr
Unique to the state. Double homicide. Police say two people were found dead inside a des moines home. Who they are. And who police have identified as the suspect. Its tuesday. December 1st. First on 13. New information in a double Homicide Investigation out of des moines. Police have identified the victims. As well as a person of interest officers are looking for 35 year old michael john wanchanic. He has brown eyes and brow hair. Standing about foot ten. And weighing about 150 pounds. They want to talk to him about the deaths of 36 year old bryon howard and 31 year old heather belieau. Their bodies were found yesterday afternoon inside their home at 39 18 Center Street. Two Young Children were also found inside. But they were not hurt. Neighbors say they were shocked to hear about what happened. Ive been here three years now and its a very pleasant neighborhood, and yeah it s just tragic to know that Something Like this went down, anywhere i mean these kinds of things can happen anywh
First on 13. Its becoming a little more difficult to navigate des moines sprawling skywalk system. Closing a portion of the skywalk. Through next year. Channel 13s josh nguyen is live downtown with how the city will direct foot traffic. And josh. Like with many problems these days. Theres an app for it. In conjunction with construction of the new, 330room Convention Center hotel, a select portion of the Downtown Des Moines skywalk, between Watson Powell jr. Way and the Convention Center, will close beginning monday, december 7. Feasibility studies indicate the hotel is projected to provide 35 million in Economic Impact in the first year, along with 1000 temporary jobs and more than 350 permanent positions. In partnership with the Greater Des Moines Convention and visitors bureau, iowa events center, polk county and Downtown Community alliance, easytouse maps have been created, and signage with detour information will be displayed in the skywalks to direct foot traffic to the arena and
First on 13. On black friday. Shopping is not just acceptable. Its expected. Crowds are already taking over stores and malls in the metro. Channel 13s josh nguyen beat the shoppers to valley west mall. It was really busy to begin with and the crowds tapered off from the 2 a. M. To 6 a. M. Time period. I think all it really did was move the sales earlier in the day instead of at the midnight retailers are expecting, is that people are probably not going to spend more money with more hours. It will just span Small Businesses are also getting ready for the Holiday Shopping season. Tomorrow is Small Business saturday. Encouraging people to shop local. Nearly 74 million americans took back in 20 12. Some Small Businesses in iowa say theyve been preparing for it for months. They say what happens tomorrow and in the next few weeks. Could set the tone for how business goes next year. Everything that were doing here is homemade, from scratch, and so i think that people who are either foodies or
For people trying to travel. Ad lib with brett mostly cloudy skies will continue across the state overnight. A few more snow showers may pass through on wednesday morning. This may bring an additional trace to one inch of snow. All will be done by noon. The new years holiday will be very cold. Temperatures will reach the teens on thursday afternoon and drop to the Single Digits by early new years day morning. The weekend will be dry and sunny with highs in the low and the weather around the country is having an impact on those who want to head to the rose bowl this week. Channel 13s josh nguyen is live at the Des Moines International airport with the latest. Sonya this has been a busy place over the past couple days. A hawkeye fans have ask the same question. Is my flight going to be on time to california . the charter flights have gone in and gone out so far today on time and without any problems. We have 7 charter flights going to the rosebowl. We had 4 today and 3 more tomorrow. I a