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Des Moines Area Community College was created on March 18, 1966. [3] The first classes were held on the Ankeny [4] Campus in 1968. DMACC has experienced tremendous growth in the last two decades. In the fall of 2000, 10,803 students were enrolled at DMACC. By the fall of 2011, that number grew to 25,425.
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The college was closed in 1929 and the business district continued to serve the residents of the neighborhood. The extension of the Second Avenue street car line in the early 20th century helped develop and sustain the neighborhood. In 1954 the college campus was sold to a developer who built Park Fair Shopping Center on the site.
† Eastern Iowa Community College District - Clinton (volleyball, men's basketball only), Muscatine (baseball, softball), Scott (golf, soccer only). ‡ All seven DMACC campuses (Ankeny, Boone, Carroll, Des Moines, Newton, Urban (Des Moines) & West Des Moines campuses) play at Boone.
Highland Park is the largest neighborhood-centered commercial district in the Des Moines area. [2] The district remains largely intact with only a few lots that are vacant. Two of the lots were the location of large frame commercial buildings, which had to be replaced. One lot is vacant while the other is occupied by an infill building.
Governor Maura Healey's administration is closing a shelter in downtown Boston and moving migrant families to Easter Nazarene in Quincy.
It was incorporated as a city in the area of Brown's Park in 1881, and in 1890 it was annexed into the city of Des Moines. The Greenwood Park Association bought Brown's Park 1892. While it was platted for residential development, housing was not built here until 1910 and into the 1920s. For the most part, it continued to be used as a park until ...
The California-based Scholarship Prep has applied to open a charter elementary and middle school in Des Moines for the 2025-26 school year. The group plans to use the 2024-25 school year for ...