Southside Des Moines
The Southside of Des Moines has more residents than any other part of the City. Over 50,000 people at last count.
Information
Location:
Des Moines, IA, 50315
Phone:
515-208-7312
Mon - Fri:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat:
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sun:
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Southside Des Moines

 
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Thanks to a southside investor, we are getting an old building revitalized on SW 9th. It will house several businesses - gymnastics, karate and kick boxing!!!

8 hours ago
Michael
Michael
Where?
6 hours ago
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Thanks to a southside investor, we are getting an old building revitalized on SW 9th. It will house several businesses.

Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Great video on health care. Gotta play it.

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Jeri
Jeri
Excellent!
8 hours ago
Southside Des Moines
Southside Des Moines
Government can provide excellent health care!
8 hours ago
Jeri
Jeri
Absolutely. I am so dissappointed that the public option will be taken out of the healtcare reform bill.
8 hours ago
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Des Moines' south side, children sledding near S.E. 5th Street behind Christ Lutheran Church near Southridge Mall on Monday, Dec. 28, 2009.

Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines The history of Des Moines can be traced to 1834. Nine years later, May 1843, Captain James Allen and a company of dragoons from Fort Sanford arrived on the site. Captain Allen proposed to name the garrison Fort Raccoon but was directed by the War Department to use the name Fort Des Moines.

Tue at 11:20pm
Michelle Jess
Michelle Jess
lived on the southside of course
Yesterday at 5:25pm
Frank Colacino
Frank Colacino
Yes he did, he was a regular at Nizzi's Tavern...
12 hours ago
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines December 21, 2009 is officially Winter Solstice 2009. Winter starts around noon EST, but from where I'm sitting winter started several weeks ago. The ground has been frozen, the wind has been whipping, and more fresh snow fell here early Sunday morning. I don't need to observe Winter Solstice 2009 to get the notion tha...t winter has officially started! It is also the shortest day of the year.

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December 21 at 6:37am
Southside Des Moines
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines It is snowing again!!! The Southside looks beautiful in the snow. We have more square miles of Parks than any other side of town.

December 20 at 7:04am
Janet
Janet
I hate the snow already and as far as I am concerned the southside doesn't need any more snow.
December 20 at 7:06am
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Does anyone know of a house for rent in the Easter Lake Area for $1,200 a month or less? A family moving to the Southside needs, at least, a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with garage. Preferably, a newer home, or in a quiet and comfortable neighborhood on the Southside.

December 19 at 9:23am
Southside Des Moines
Southside Des Moines
Thank you Angela and David. Great feedback. As a real estate agent, I have seen alot of families get turned down for loans and forced to rent instead. Sometimes it has been their fault, other times not. We have the lowest interest rates for home loans since the 1940s but not everyone is eligible for those loans. To get a low interest rate loan these days requires a average credit score of 720 in most cases.
December 20 at 6:57am
Wendell Barcelona
Wendell Barcelona
You turned out to be the smart one if you've been renting for the last 3 to 4 years. You at least didn't lose 15 to 30% of your "investment"
December 20 at 7:19am
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines We need an Internet Cafe on the Southside, just like they do at Valley West Mall.

December 17 at 1:57pm
Kelli
Kelli
Come down to West End Arch. Salvage and coffee...we have wi-fi...and plenty of room for you to hang out...Bring your lunch even! We are under the sw 9th bridge...corner of 9th and cherry.
December 17 at 2:24pm
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Des Moines largest mall

Katie
Katie
Agreed. ^
December 16 at 9:21am
Ryan Free
Ryan Free
It's went through a lot of phases...used to be kinda cool...remember when I was little they had Happy Joe's in there and the single slice things were good.
December 16 at 2:26pm
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Southridge Mall - It could be revitalized. Ideas. What about a "farmers market" for the Southside. The mall could be converted to provide local vendors / farmers with an atmosphere for local business people to market their goods. We have over 50,000 people on the Southside and we want a place to shop instead of dri...ving outside of Des Moines for our goods.

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December 15 at 2:55pm
Travis Piper
Travis Piper
we dont need to add any fancy stores to repopulate southridge, what we need to do instead is look into alternate options, we need businesses that are more attracting to the eyes of those from the southside, if the people are looking for the "upscale" shopping experiences at the other malls then they have something coming, see although those stores ... See Morethrive due to name they will only exist untill another mall larger goes up, then JC will fall into non-existance caused by its own upscale belief.
Stick to what serves people the best, price/value customer service(REAL CUSTOMER SERVICE NOT SOME PRICK BEHIND A SQUARE COUNTER) and friendship
Southridge mall provides all of these things which is the reason ive went to southridge for so long, i hate JC and VW and MH, they may have a couple of stores i prefer but they cant provide me with the service im looking for. I will end at that. actually no i wont, bring a rue 21 to southridge and then that will eliminate the extra need for me to have to go to any of the other stores(thats pretty much the only store i goto at any of the other malls)
December 17 at 7:36am
Peggy O'Neal Rosky
Peggy O'Neal Rosky
I think they should make it an outlet mall. People from WDM and the suburbs drive to the Williamsburg outlet mall. They would drive to the southside too, not to mention Norwalk, Indianola, Johnston, etc. It seems to me this would be a solution. AND, they should give us a Target Superstore over there too. I just wish Walmart would leave altogether.
December 19 at 9:33pm
Southside Des Moines

Southside Des Moines Lincoln High School - built in 1918. In the Main corridor is a bronze bust of Lincoln, the work of Laurence Stewart, former student of East High. The corner stone of the old Lincoln School, which used to be at Ninth and Mulberry Streets, has been set as a memorial on the Lincoln High lawn. It was presented to the schoo...l with appropriate ceremonies when the old school was demolished.

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December 14 at 10:52am
Richard
Richard
Hey Joe, good to see an old classmate!
December 15 at 8:42pm
Southside Des Moines
Southside Des Moines
Hello Richard, it is good to hear from you. I am still living on the Southside and really enjoy it. I did worked in Washington DC for 7 years back in the 90s but came back to our side of town and loving it.
December 16 at 4:33pm
Southside Des Moines
Courtney Dobson
Courtney Dobson
WOOT WOOT!!!!(: BEST SCHOOL EVER!!!!!! ;D
December 14 at 5:43pm
RECENT ACTIVITY
Southside Des Moines changed their Public Transit.