This is my final column for the Des Moines Business Record, which has carried my musings since 2012. Beginning next month, the Elbert Files will have a new home at a sister publication, dsm magazine, ...

O'Donnell, Petrocelli and Parks mentioned the easy walk to Peoria's riverfront as a significant benefit of living downtown. The Peoria Farmers Market and restaurants such as the Blue Duck Tavern, ...

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

Detroit — The constellation of riverfront skyscrapers at the Renaissance ... General Motors Co.'s soon-to-be-former headquarters building is at a similar point the Packard Plant stood at in ...

A largely vacant office tower that’s part of the Renaissance Center complex on Detroit's riverfront is heading ... the downtown complex's easternmost building — is set to hit the online ...

A redesigned riverfront, mixed-housing, and a "Navy Pier-like family-friendly entertainment destination: Bedrock and General Motors have big plans for the most iconic building of Detroit's skyline.

Data visualization has recently exploded as a communication tool," said Mark SubbaRao, information technology specialist and lead for NASA's ...

Sterling Bay, the developer behind dozens of projects in Chicago, launched a last-ditch ... Marcey St., currently occupied by a vacant building, will include space open to the public and 275 ...

The Marseilles City Council approved expenses totaling almost $180,000 for security measures around the property at 200 Riverfront Drive ... and police into the old Illinois Valley Cellular building.

"Rather, what we’re trying to do is reauthorize, or re-up, the Transformational Brownfield program, which is made for bringing obsolete buildings ... the closest to the riverfront.