Out With the Old, In With the New
It looks like over the last few weeks construction has really started up on the new Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield company headquarters building. As a downtown resident this brings hope and anticipation with new construction that continues to bring vitalization to our downtown, but the same time begs the question what’s going to happen to all the current leased spaces that these companies occupied? With Wellmark moving out of the Ruan and Davis Brown Law Firm moving out of the Financial Center, who will move to occupy those large spaces?
Wellmark’s new five-story, 550,000 square feet building, on 6.5 acres will be a huge addition to downtown. The building beautiful architecture will look awesome sitting across from Western Gateway Park the new Pappajohn Sculpture Garden. Here’s a video that shows off the beautiful architecture of the building:
Also this week the new Davis Brown Tower is holding it’s official grand opening celebration. This tower of course is the picture I use as the header for this site. The grand opening is being billed as ”
Destination 10th Street.” This is a first ever for this type of event, and the will feature live music and entertainment.
The celebration will be held on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 10th Street, between Walnut & Mulberry in downtown Des Moines at Davis Brown Tower.
Event line up includes:
- 10 am – A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Davis Brown Tower
- 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Building tours by the architects
- 11 am – 2 p.m. Free Gateway Market Lunch provided by First National Bank of Iowa
- 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Live Music by Los Saltinos
- 4 – 7 p.m. Live Music by Chris Ranallo Trio
- 4 – 7 p.m. Happy Hour with $2 Raccoon River Brewing Co beer and $2 appetizers from Django
In addition, Josephs Jewelers and First National Bank (both located on the street level of Davis Brown Tower) will hold an open house complete with giveaways and specials throughout the day.
By MulderDSM
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mrdowntown on Tue, 2nd Sep 2008 1:51 pm
Good article!