Walk up six flights of stairs in the massive apartment building under construction just south of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and you’ll enter a common area with spectacular views of downtown Des Moines and the state Capitol.

“This is our closing place,” Kris Saddoris, Hubbell Realty Co.’s vice president of multifamily development, said unabashedly. “This is where our [residents] will bring their friends. … 
“This,” she continued, “is what the people who live in middle of downtown don’t have – a view of downtown.”

Several folks from Hubbell Realty recently took Joe Crimmings, Business Publication Corp.’s creative director, and me on a tour of Gray’s Station, the $250 million development underway on 84 acres south of MLK Parkway and Southwest 11th Street. 

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To see their online gallery of photos from the full tour, click here visit the Des Moines Business Record's Faecbook page.