Crews are tearing down the east half of the shuttered mall to make way for a $100 million housing skyscraper that will change the Des Moines skyline. Inside, it’s dark, dusty, and gutted.

"It will change the Des Moines skyline and anytime you have something of that magnitude come through, it has an impact," said Cody Christensen, the City of Des Moines' director of development ...