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The college adopted the Des Moines University name on September 18, 1999. [7] In 2003, former Iowa Governor Terry E. Branstad became the university's president. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2005, the university opened a $24 million Student Education Center, with a medical library, new classrooms, study rooms, a cafeteria and wellness center with a teaching ...
The college was founded in 1889 just after the Highland Park Land Company opened up this section of Des Moines for residential development. The College Corner commercial district was associated with the college's professors and students who in general lived nearby and patronized the establishments at the intersection of Second and Euclid Avenues.
Details are to be announced Tuesday about the planned new center on the campus Des Moines University left when it moved this year
The buildings built from the 1920s on were, for the most part, built along Euclid Avenue. Euclid was transformed from a residential street into a state highway at this time. 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.
The public will get a first chance this weekend to see inside Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences' $260 million investment into its new campus at 8025 Grand Ave. in West Des Moines.
Lynn Pritchard now has a third Des Moines restaurant, Hugo's Wood-Fired Kitchen, now open near the Drake campus. ... Location: 3206 University Ave., Des Moines. Contact: 515-674-2690.
The historic district lies north of Kingman Boulevard and south of Cottage Grove Avenue, between 27th Street on the east and 31st Street on the west. It is composed of three full blocks and parts of two others in the Kingman and University plats. The plats are unique in Des Moines as they are oriented east to west as opposed to north to south. [2]
For the third time, Rob Johnson has only one birthday wish: To fill your gas tank — for free. This year he has a goal to fill 800 tanks for Iowans.