Mike Pogge-Weaver

As the main artery of the Ames-Des Moines Cultivation Corridor, Johnston’s robust bio-tech economy features the Global Research Center for DuPont-Pioneer and an array of finance industry heavy weights including John Deere Financial, DLL, Shazam and Iowa Bankers Association. A host of workforce talent lays within the rapidly growing community of 20,000+ who collectively forms one of the highest educated and highest income earning communities in the state. Johnston’s state of the art high school, constructed in 2017, is just a part of a Johnston School District that is consistently rated among the top in the state. Additionally, the innovative Terra Lake and interconnected bike trail systems provide a stellar quality of life for active employees looking for a place to call home. Johnston’s flexible and aggressive incentive policy continues to attract new investment and talent to existing business park’s and proposed Town Center and Merle Hay Road Gateway.