From Transport Topics: Illinois officials recently held a ceremony along Interstate 270 as construction started on a project with Missouri to replace the aging Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River with twin bridges to help improve freight transportation. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said, “This isn’t just an investment for the Metro East region — […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A city of St. Louis board voted Monday to advance projects in Forest Park and downtown’s Citygarden. Nonprofit Forest Park Forever and the city of St. Louis are working to improve waterways on the park’s eastern edge. Ted Spade, of SWT Design, said at a Monday meeting of the St. […]
From Rejournals: Poettker Construction Company’s vice president of field operations Tom Albers has announced his retirement after 43 years. As one of Breese, Illinois-based Poettker’s first employees, along with the company’s founder Charles “Chuck” Poettker, Albers helped grow the business into one of the largest contracting firms in the country. Albers’ official retirement date is June […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: The Biden administration on Monday announced $42.45 billion to connect all Americans to high-speed broadband internet by the end of the decade, likening the ambitious goal to FDR’s New Deal-era rural electrification program that brought the then-modern technology to farms and rural areas across the United States. Missouri will receive […]
From Fox 2: A St. Louis County contractor accepted thousands of dollars in upfront payments for work he promised to complete, but never did. The Missouri Attorney General’s Office announced this Tuesday as part of a default judgement against John G. Adams and his company, A-1 Construction General Contractor, LLC. Adams is accused of falsely […]
by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Construction Forum Earlier this year, President Biden made a personal appeal to Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades (NABTU), to enlist the construction industry’s apprentice programs in leveraging Build Back Better funds to create inclusive employment opportunities, McGarvey said in a speech here Wednesday (June 28). “This country […]
From Construction Business Owner: While many companies make substantial investments in targeting and hiring undergraduate students, fewer consider graduate students due to a fundamental misconception about applicants who hold advanced degrees. By understanding this misconception, construction industry recruiters can open an additional pipeline for talent in the industry. The fundamental misconception is that all graduate students […]
From Ladue News: Great Rivers Greenway has built over 135 miles of greenways connecting the St. Louis area together, and they’re not stopping there. The public agency, which was founded in 2000 after a vote from people in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County to create a sales tax solely devoted […]
From Marketplace: There are more new homes being built in this country right now than there have been in a while. Housing starts grew by more than 21% from April to May, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And they’re up almost 6% over this time last year. The number of new homes that were just […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The largest community development program run by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has opened an office in Old North St. Louis, filling a vacancy in a two-block area that was part of a major redevelopment 13 years ago. The program has changed its name from the Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative to […]
From Contractor’s Compass: I remember the first subcontract I ever read as a baby attorney. My exact thoughts were this thing is so bad you are better off burning it than trying to fix it. It was so one-sided in the general contractor’s favor that it would be easier to start from scratch than to […]
From Contractor: The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows issued a report today titled, Building For The Future: Advancing Equal Employment Opportunity in the Construction Industry. The report provides findings and next steps based on the agency’s enforcement experience, witness testimony presented at the EEOC’s May 2021 hearing on discrimination and harassment in construction and other […]
From Missouri Independent: City leaders in Storm Lake, a rural community of 11,000 in Northwest Iowa, are asking residents not to wash their cars or water their yards and gardens during the hottest part of the day. The city also has cut back on watering public recreational spaces, such as ballfields and golf courses. These […]
From The St. Louis American: Last week, the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) announced it had awarded 900 businesses across the city with $5,000 grants, representing a $4.5 million total allocation from the city. The fund was allocated under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). “The Small Business Grant Program directly infused much-needed capital into […]
The St. Louis Chapter of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) will kick off the summer and introduce its new officers and directors at its Summer Social. IFMA St. Louis will celebrate its new officers and directors for the 2023-2024 term at its annual Summer Social. Additionally, the organization will recognize members that have achieved […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The first residents have moved into St. Louis developer CRG’s apartment complex that occupied the last remaining open site at The Streets of St. Charles mixed-use development, with the project expected to wrap construction on its second phase by July. Chapter at The Streets, at 333 Mulholland Drive in St. […]
From Contractor: Construction input prices fell 0.6% in May compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data released today. Nonresidential construction input prices declined 0.5% for the month. Overall construction input prices are 3.7% lower than a year ago. […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Subsidies aimed at kickstarting two big downtown development projects cleared their first hurdle at the Board of Aldermen on Thursday, moving through committee without a single dissenting vote. The bills offering tax breaks to developers looking to revamp the old riverfront industrial area south of the Arch and refill the vacant […]
From Construction Dive: Dive Brief: Total construction starts continued their 2023 roller coaster ride, jumping 8% in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.11 trillion due to strong gains in manufacturing and infrastructure, according to Dodge Construction Network. After an unexpected 68% drop in manufacturing project kickoffs in April dragged down all starts, manufacturing starts more than […]
From Edwardsville Intelligencer: After a multi-year waiting period, construction started on the Edwardsville Township Hall expansion and revamp in December. Township officials vacated the offices on Nov. 23, 2022. Temporarily, the staff has relocated to 900 Hillsboro Ave., or Illinois Route 157, in the Madison County Farm Bureau building, just north of Mark’s Muffler Shop. […]
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