County records show Microsoft paid $95.5 million for Iowa land

Business Record reported on Oct. 27 that Dallas County records show Microsoft paid just over $95.5 million for 616 acres near Woodward, in deeds recorded Oct. 15. Trammell Crow's TC Austin Acquisitions had bought the same land the same day for just over $30.7 million, and Microsoft told the paper it had nothing to share. A Microsoft representative told an Oct. 12 meeting that a campus design had not started and could take two to three years, plus about two years to build the first building.