The new owners of a downtown Des Moines high-rise are considering adding a grocery store in the building — an amenity long desired by residents and workers, yet one that’s been difficult to deliver.
While any final commitment to a downtown grocery remains a year off, developer Shawn Foutch said the Kansas City-based Foutch Brothers is “definitely considering it.”
In fact, the company’s website touts that a grocery will be included in the redevelopment of the Des Moines Building, which it bought last summer with local company Nelson Development.
“It would definitely not be a large, sprawling store like you have in the suburbs,” Foutch said when asked about the possibility. “It would definitely be like an urban core store. But our intent would be that if it’s worth doing, it will be a full-service grocery store.”
