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Progress 2021 Business

New housing emerging

Walls appear to be rising from mounds of snow in a neighborhood on the eastern side of Fort Dodge as a new apartment building takes shape. Located at the intersection of North 29th Street and Dodger Drive, the building will be part of a complex called District 29, which will also include ...

Overcoming challenges

Anyone in Calhoun, Webster or Wright County who has a property they are interested in selling, may benefit from the services of Abstract Associates of Iowa Inc. The company, founded in 2009, produces new abstracts of title and continuation of abstracts of title, along with searches to ...

Leavin’ on a jet plane

United Express will begin flying 50-seat jets from Fort Dodge to Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Illinois starting March 1, Rhonda Chambers, the airport’s director of aviation, announced in December. A roughly $3 million annual subsidy from the federal Essential Air Service ...

Change at the top

Keenan Schuur, who has been an agent at Coldwell Banker Associated Realtors for five years, joined Troy Anderson as co-owner of the Fort Dodge brokerage at the start of 2020. Schuur, a 2007 St. Edmond High School graduate, obtained his broker’s license about two years ago. He became a ...

New vehicles offered at Shimkat

After navigating through the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, leaders at Shimkat Motor Co. are both optimistic and excited about some new additions to its inventory. “When the pandemic started, we were worried,” said T.J. Pingel, Shimkat general manager. “But ...

Switching gears

HUMBOLDT — When the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States last spring, the leaders at Hy-Capacity Tractor Parts in Humboldt wanted to know what they could do to help. Molly Varangkounh, president of Hy-Capacity, said they had seen posts on social media about hospitals facing a ...