The 135-acre Guthrie Avenue Business Park (View Map) provides a quality environment for your business by assuring:

• Variety of parcel sizes (1.5 acres to 33 acre sites) with room for future expansion.
• Generous uniform setbacks.
• Landscaped grounds.
• Durable, good quality building construction.
• One and two story buildings.
• Ample off-street parking and loading.
• Fully-services sites with industrial capacity utilities and industrial specification streets.

Exceptional Investment Advantages

• Unique opportunity to construct buildings for user-owner and for lease.
• Consistent design standards to protect investment.
• Flexibility to meet existing and future space requirements.
• M-1 zoning to allow only compatible commercial and light industrial uses.

Development Financing Opportunities

• Land assembled by the City of Des Moines and offered at a reasonable price.
• City assistance in accessing
  • Long-term fixed asset financing with flexible terms and interest rates; and
  • Short-term working capital financing with flexible terms and interest rates.
    
• Most favorable property tax abatement rates in the metropolitan area. Select 100% abatement on improvements for three years or a declining percentage abatement for 10 years.
• Best insurance rates in the metropolitan area due to outstanding full-time police and fire departments.

Outstanding Accessibility

The Guthrie Avenue Business Park is located ½ mile from I-235 which connects to I-80 and I-35. The Guthrie Avenue Business Park offers:

• 5 minute drive time (3 miles) to downtown Des Moines.
• 15 minute (9 miles) to Des Moines International Airport.
• Adjacent rail service.
• Proximity to quality commercial office and light industrial support services such as UPS and Consolidated Freightways.

Attentive Project Management

An Economic Development Coordinator from the City's Office of Economic Development is assigned to the Central Place Industrial Park to provide support and assistance during every phase of development. The Economic Development Coordinator provides a centralized point of contact for the businessperson or developer seeking assistance with development questions. Assistance to Central Place businesses does not end when the development is completed, however. The Economic Development Coordinator is never more than a phone call away to provide conscientious assistance in any way possible.