When I first moved to the Des Moines metro, I worked downtown and lived in West Des Moines and made the commute back-n-forth from the burbs to downtown five days a week. A few years ago, that changed and my offices were located in West Des Moines so the commute was short and sweet. Back in March of this year, I moved downtown and started the reverse-commute to my offices in West Des Moines. The reverse commute hasn’t been that bad, it’s only taken me about 15 to 20 minutes to get to work and home each day, this is significantly shorter than the nearly half hour to forty-minute commutes I had in South Florida. I found out this week that my department will be relocating in the upcoming weeks to our downtown offices. Talk about a short commute, I won’t even have to get my car out of the garage. It will be a walking commute for me. A hugh advantage to both working and living downtown.

In the warm weather months, I will probably walk to work outside and in the colder or rainy months, I’m lucky that it is Skywalk for me the whole way.

Google Maps: Walking directions from Liberty Building to Wells Fargo Financial:

0.3 mi – about 6 mins

1. Head south on 6th Ave toward Locust St – 0.1 mi
2. Turn right at Walnut St – 0.2 mi

Now if for some reason I did need to drive my car, with the one way streets my drive would be a little longer due to one way streets, traffic lights and morning and afternoon rush hour.

Google Maps: Driving directions from Liberty Building to Wells Fargo Financial:

0.4 mi – about 9 mins

1. Head north on 6th Ave toward Grand Ave - 105 ft
2. Turn left at Grand Ave - 358 ft
3. Turn left at 7th St - 0.2 mi
4. Turn rihgt at Mulberry St - 0.1 mi

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