{"id":2847,"date":"2015-06-03T20:19:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2015\/06\/03\/welcome-to-la-placita-on-east-grand\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T20:19:06","slug":"welcome-to-la-placita-on-east-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/welcome-to-la-placita-on-east-grand\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to \u201cLa Placita on East Grand.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Neighborhood Development Corporation is pleased to announce the renaming of its commercial properties on East Grand Avenue in Des Moines as \u201cLa Placita on East Grand.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>La Placita on East Grand is a collection of newly developed and older renovated commercial buildings on the north side of East Grand, between 15th and 16th Street.<\/p><div id=\"holaa-4121767688\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles-2\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesperformingarts.org\/whats-on\/series\/summerarts\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"HI-SummerSeries-300&#215;250-SP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HI-SummerSeries-300x250-SP.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p>These properties were acquired by the Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) and developed over a ten year period. In 2015 they were renamed \u201cLa Placita on East Grand\u201d, which means the little plaza or marketplace (in Spanish).<\/p>\n<p>La Placita includes six different buildings with shared parking, and has approximately 16 commercial tenants with apartments on the second floor of one of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>La Placita contains 16 local businesses, the majority of which are owned and operated by members of the Hispanic Community in Des Moines. Notable businesses include: \u00a0Los Laureles Restaurant, Paleteria La Michoacana, La Tienda Mexicana, and Panaderia La Mona. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the rebranding effort, the commercial center is being repainted in bright colors, artist John Neal is painting a festive mural, and NDC is hosting a Jazz in July event \u2013 the first ever on Des Moines\u2019 East Side.\u00a0<\/p><div id=\"holaa-540495196\" class=\"holaa-ad-inside-articles\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/hhs.iowa.gov\/health-prevention\/diabetes-prevention-management\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Diabetes Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Diabetes-Spanish-300x250-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n<p>On Friday, July 3rd, Inseparable Banda Perla del Sur, from Marshalltown, Elegant Gypsy, and Salsa Des Moines will be performing from 5 to 8 p.m. \u00a0For additional information, please contact on our web site \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laplacitadsm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 1.3em;\">www.laplacitadsm.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laplacitadsm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 1.3em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-2846\" src=\"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PLACITA%2001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-2642263779\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neighborhood Development Corporation is pleased to announce the renaming of its commercial properties on East Grand Avenue in Des Moines as \u201cLa Placita on East Grand.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}