Continuing our series on Des Moines Downtown Neighborhoods, today we will take a look at the Downtown Core Neighborhood. Des Moines is currently made up of to six diverse and distinctive urban neighborhoods. Each of the neighborhood’s rough boundaries appear on this map below.

Downtown Core Neighborhood

This is neighborhood is considered the heart of downtown, it’s boundaries are 10th Street to the West, the river banks to the East, Park Street to the North.

This neighborhood is made up of the tallest structures in downtown Des Moines is home to numerous large corporations such as Wells Fargo Financial, Principal Financial and currently Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield until it’s new headquarters are finsihed in the Western Gateway Neighborhood.  The neighborhood is composed of both new modern architecture as well as restored historical buildings.

A couple of these historical buildings are currently contain a mixture of commercial office space, retail space, lofts/condos and even one will soon include a Hyatt Place Hotel.

The best feature of this neighborhood is the expansive network of skywalks, which features almost four miles of indoor walking area to get around downtown.

This neighborhood includes awesome public spaces such as Nollen Plaza, Civic Center of Greater Des Moines, the Des Moines Downtown Art Center and the Science Center of Iowa.

Downtown Core Highlights: (click on an icon for more information)

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