Beaverdale Hy-Vee plans meet neighborhood resistance
Beaverdale area neighbors have many concerns about plans by Hy-Vee Food Stores to build a new store at the corner of Beaver and Douglas Avenues. A recent informational meeting for neighbors hosted by Hy-Vee brought many of the neighbors’ concerns to the forefront of the discussion, and additional meetings about the project are planned as follows:
August 30, 2007:
Beaverdale [...]
Cardboard kids force traffic to slow down
Despite the fact that the speed limit on our street is 25 mph, we daily see cars zooming from one end to the other at speeds in excess of 60 mph. We call the police, they run radar for a couple days, and when they leave the problem returns. A two-way stop sign placed at [...]
Police department to step up prevention efforts in four neighborhoods
Update July 24: Here is the report from KCCI-TV about the Neighborhood Enforcement Strike Team (NEST) initiative, following the Police Department’s news conference at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Here’s an interesting item from the KCCI Noon News headlines (via email):
On Tuesday morning, the Des Moines Police Department said it plans to announce a strategy to crack down [...]
Union Park Neighborhood Association news 7/1/07
Here are the highlights from the July Union Park Neighborhood Association newsletter:
1. UPNA has a new website at www.unionparkdsm.com. Thanks and kudos to Linda White of Design by Linda for creating the site! Suggestions welcome at info@unionparkdsm.com.
2. The Union Park neighborhood-wide garage sale will be Saturday, July 14 beginning at 8 a.m. Look for ads in the [...]
Shoppes at River Bend by Neighborhood Development Corp. thrives
A new commercial development along Sixth Ave., the Shoppes at River Bend, is in my neck of the woods and I’ve been so pleased to drive by regularly and watch it take shape. What started out as a 120-year-old crumbling building has been revitalized - fixed up and expanded - into a thriving business development [...]
Davis Park to get improvements
If you want to meet some hard-working neighbors, and see an example of city-citizen cooperation, look no further than Evelyn K. Davis Park at 16th & Forest Ave. in Des Moines. At one time one of the city’s roughest neighborhoods, the relocation of the Forest Ave. Library into its current location and the redevelopment of [...]
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