From STL Partnership: FOCUS ST. Louis hosted their 26th Annual What’s Right with the Region Awards on May 11, 2023. Each year, the event honors individuals, organizations and initiatives that are making a positive impact within the St. Louis region. This year, St. Louis Economic Development Partnership (STL Partnership) and Greater St. Louis Inc. accepted […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Thousands of vacant properties have pockmarked St. Louis for decades. City officials say a new initiative — and the infusion of federal funding — could start solving the problem. The city has awarded a two-year deal worth up to $500,000 to the St. Louis Vacancy Collaborative to address St. Louis’ 24,000 […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The region’s leading private business and economic development organization has hired the chief of Missouri’s economic development arm as its new point person on business attraction. Greater St. Louis Inc. announced Monday that Maggie Kost, acting director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development, will take over as the group’s chief […]
From Riverfront Times: The Missouri Department of Transportation may permanently close the southbound I-55 ramp at Cherokee Street as drivers feel unsafe merging there. According to MoDOT’s website, the ramp at Cherokee Street was made during a time when vehicle traffic did not move as quickly or “aggressively” as it does now. The ramp’s tight […]
From Yahoo News: One of the East St. Louis Housing Authority’s oldest housing complexes, Orr-Weathers, needs significant work. That was the message from a group of about a dozen activists from United Congregations of Metro-East and a longtime Orr-Weathers resident who gathered Tuesday morning outside the housing authority administrative offices for a demonstration. Housing Authority […]
North County Inc. has honored IBEW/NECA Electrical Connection Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Sylvester Taylor with a 2023 Leadership Award. Taylor has had a long tenure of service to the North St. Louis County region, including treasurer of the Hazelwood School Board and he has served on the board of the Black Jack Fire […]
From KSDK: Heavy downpours and a thick snowpack in the Western mountains and Upper Midwest have put communities in several states at risk of flooding this spring – or already under water. Flooding is the costliest type of natural disaster in the U.S., responsible for about 90% of the damage from natural disasters each year. […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The children’s zoo area at the St. Louis Zoo has been reimagined and will be rebuilt as a place where children and families can interact with and be inspired by animals: whether they’re “popping up” next to a prairie dog, splashing on one leg with Chilean flamingoes or climbing through tunnels […]
HDA Architects, one of the nation’s leading architectural, interiors and master planning firms, is nearing completion on one new Love’s Truck Solutions facility in Natalia, TX, while another location in Brigham, UT, is just beginning. Due to the firm’s design acumen that exceeded budget and timeline expectations on Love’s Natalia facility, HDA was selected to […]
Construction industry companies looking for secure, easy computer recycling and data destruction services can now do so at no cost, while supporting the work of Construction Forum. Phoenix Solutions and Construction Forum announced that they have entered into a social good marketing partnership. Construction Forum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, now celebrating its 10th anniversary. The […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: CRG, long the development division of construction firm Clayco, has changed its leadership structure to add its first CEO and establish itself as more of a standalone enterprise. CRG President Shawn Clark has been named the firm’s first CEO, while Chief Development Officer Chris McKee has been promoted to president. […]
From The New York Times: When President Biden told a crowd of union workers this year that every American should have a path to a good career — “whether they go to college or not” — Tyler Wissman was listening. A father of one with a high school education, Mr. Wissman said he rarely heard […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR) is considering establishing an office in a prominent new office tower in Clayton, according to people familiar with the matter. The people said Emerson is looking at taking several floors in one of the two towers that make up the $250 million Forsyth Pointe development, […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The project to build a $55 million advanced manufacturing center in St. Louis received a major boost as the Missouri General Assembly included $15 million in the state budget to support construction. Last year, the federal government through a national competition called the Build Back Better Regional Challenge, included $7 […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Construction on a new Olive Garden restaurant began in Orchard Town Center (OTC) last month, according to Scott Slemer, the village’s director for public works. In addition, the Plum Street entrance for OTC is open, after the northern entrance opened off of Governors’ Parkway, just west of Troy Road. Olive Garden […]
From Harvard Business Review: Remember when media outlets and academia used to refer to socially marginalized groups as “nonwhites”? It doesn’t take a lot of social awareness to cringe at that term today. Now, folks use the term “underrepresented” instead. It may feel like the safest option among the minefield of language and politics we […]
From Mid Rivers News Magazine: Dr. Danielle S. Tormala, superintendent of the Wentzville School District (WSD), had strong words for the Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen at a special meeting on Wednesday, April 12 concerning the proposed Prairie Encore Community Improvement District (CID) and its related tax abatements, which the city says are allowable under […]
From Pro Publica: Cory Evans was well-versed in the HomeVestors of America playbook when he arrived at a suburban Los Angeles home on Nov. 4, 2016. His franchise with the “We Buy Ugly Houses” company had executed more than 50 deals in the preceding two years. Patriot Holdings would soon become one of the company’s […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Funds earmarked by St. Louis County for the redevelopment by youth sports complex PowerPlex have not been used by the developer, and are still available if the project finds an alternate site, a county official said. The St. Louis County Council agreed in February 2021 to use $6 million in […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Two projects that will add more than 100 apartments for seniors across north and south St. Louis moved closer to final approval Wednesday. The first project, from Yaphett El-Amin of Fields Place LP, plans to build about 90 apartments for seniors with a grocery store and other commercial space at the […]
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