Des Moines, Iowa is experiencing rapid urban growth driven by two main factors: Midwesterners returning to their home region and coastal residents relocating for a different lifestyle, resulting in increased commerce, restaurants, shopping, and residential development that challenges the stereotype of the Midwest as merely agricultural.
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Hy-Vee is located in the place of birth of place of my birth, Des Moines, Iowa.
Catherine, what is the one thing about Des Moines that would surprise most folks to learn or that also surprised you upon uh being there? Yeah. So, you know, coming from spending my entire life on the East Coast, when I told people I was moving to Iowa, and west of Des Moines, you know, they just said, "Oh, it's all corn fields."
And I will say, yes, there are corn fields, but this area is growing and booming like you would not believe. Just the commerce coming in, all of the restaurants and shopping, residential housing is going up everywhere.
There is There is something going on where people are either they were from the Midwest and now they're coming back, or people from the coast are coming to Midwest for a different lifestyle, but the area is is growing. And you know, and there's parts like it's quite bougie. There's some really expensive houses going up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of think of Des Moines as like Minneapolis 20 years ago. Like, you know, it's like the it's like the the place with Midwestern roots where people you to your point, people have Midwestern roots, they want to come back to Midwest. Now now we're heading to Des Moines in Iowa. And you know, who I mean, who can you who can blame them because, you know, it it's it's heaven, you know, like Field of Dreams says.
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