Patel, who serves on Curio’s owners' advisory council, said the Hotel Fort Des Moines fits Curio's brand well. “I didn’t want to get rid of the Hotel Fort Des Moines name,” he said.

The parcel at 431 E. Locust St. in Des Moines' East Village is almost 108,000 ... Hawkeye Hotels with Patel bought the Hotel Fort Des Moines in 2015 and completed a $50 million top-to-bottom ...

“My vision for the Hotel Fort Des Moines was always to bring it back to its historic glamour and beauty to the absolute essence of what it was in 1919,” said Raj Patel, owner and developer of ...