From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Madison County Transit plans a $34 million expansion of its system of bicycle trails, bridges and tunnels over the next five years or so. The agency, which already oversees 138 miles of trails, announced Friday it will add 20 miles, seven bridges and two tunnels as part of a new capital spending […]
“We have to be willing to think differently, act differently,” Chris Krehmeyer, President and CEO of Beyond Housing, told the audience on Dec. 6 at Construction Forum’s conclusion to its 18-month series, “Building Tomorrow’s Construction Workforce: Steps to Inclusive Employment”. The event was held at Laborers Local 110 event center. “If you drive through many […]
There was mixed news for the built environment market delivered Thursday by an expert panel. The panel spoke at the Strong work pipelines at the market forecast delivered by an expert panel Thursday. The panelists predicted strong workforce pipelines in most market buckets, but tempered that good news with predictions of continued glitches in supply […]
From Rethinking The Future: “Jack of all trades and master of none!” – they call us, the architects. But it is more like, being the jack of all trades is what makes us master the art of architectural design. This is because architecture is an amalgamation of various ‘pure’ disciplines in such a way that one becomes proficient […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A $145 million, 30-story apartment tower proposed for one of the last open lots overlooking Forest Park in the Central West End could receive tax incentives under a plan being considered by a city board. St. Louis-based developer Koplar Properties is partnering with Chicago firm Albion Residential on Albion West End, which would […]
From St. Louis-MO: On Friday, December 9, 2022 the Missouri Housing Development Commission (MHDC) approved awards [mhdc.com] worth over $70 million to six affordable housing developments in the City of St. Louis. Projects include: Preservation Square Phase IV in Carr Square, the Independence Center in the Central West End, AmberStones in Old North, Crossroads in […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Armory STL, the new $60 million indoor entertainment destination in Midtown, officially opens its doors this week, following years of development work to transform the former military and sports complex. The 250,000-square-foot indoor space at 3660 Market St., just off Interstate 64 near the City Foundry food hall development and Ikea, will […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: The Edwardsville Woodworkers Club is doing its part to preserve local history. The club, led by founder Bill Cerny, was able to harvest the wood from an ancient sycamore tree on the 54-acre site of the former Foucek family nursery on Troy Road in Glen Carbon, which will soon be the […]
From CityScene STL: Back in February, Green Street, along with Sterling Bank and HDA Architects, submitted a plan to the city of Clayton for a 20-story apartment tower at 50 South Bemiston. The project was originally unveiled at the beginning of December 2021 in an invite for neighbors to attend a community meeting to discuss […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: McBride Homes, the St. Louis region’s largest homebuilder, is moving forward with a new residential development in Franklin County. An entity affiliated with the company, St. Andrews Drive Development LLC, closed Nov. 21 on the purchase of 31.8 acres of vacant land in the city of Union. Terms of the […]
From Compact Equipment: The Associated General Contractors of America recently released a series of video public service ads that feature real industry professionals who have felt the impact of suffering with mental health issues while trying to maintain the normalcy of day-to-day life and work. These videos are part of the association’s ongoing efforts to combat high suicide rates and […]
From ReJournal: Tarlton Corp. broke ground Dec. 7 on the SSM Health Outpatient Center in O’Fallon, Missouri, after being selected as construction manager for the two-story 66,000-square-foot destination ambulatory center and outpatient facility in southern Greater St. Charles County. The center will serve as the premier source for the needs of a growing community – one […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A developer has filed plans to turn a struggling Maryland Heights hotel into apartments, city documents show. New York-based Churchwick Partners told the city of Maryland Heights that its 106-room Sonesta ES Hotel, at 1855 Craigshire Drive, is losing out to competing hotels and that the tight labor market is making it […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: As construction continues on the $130 million project to convert the historic Butler Brothers building into more than 300 apartments, the massive project in Downtown West has a name and a target opening date. Memphis-based developer Development Services Group could finish construction on the first phase of transforming the 735,000-square-foot building […]
From New York Intelligencer: For months, the world’s largest economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse because America’s latter-day robber barons can’t comprehend that workers sometimes get sick. Or so the behavior of major U.S. rail companies seems to suggest. Since last winter, railroad unions and the managers of America’s seven dominant freight-rail carriers have been […]
From Construction Dive: Dive Brief: Nonresidential construction input prices declined 0.8% in November compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis, due in part to improvement in supply chains that were battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the monthly decline, nonresidential construction input prices remain 11.5% higher than a year […]
From UMSL Daily: Ken Cella wouldn’t change anything about the education he received at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Cella is the principal overseeing branch development at financial services firm Edward Jones and the new president of UMSL’s Chancellor’s Council. He reflects fondly on friends he made at UMSL, relationships he built with faculty members and the […]
Editor’s Note: This week, Forum Drone Pilot/Photographer Louis Kelly of Drone Eagle LLC provides an update onapartments being constructed at the former location of the United Missouri Bank in Kirkwood. Demolition has been completed and sitework is underway on the five-story apartment complex. The 152-unit apartment building, to be called “The James” is the first […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A St. Louis-based regional nonprofit that provides civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families is moving its headquarters to space downtown. Legal Services of Eastern Missouri said Thursday that it will move its main office to the Peabody Plaza building, at 701 Market St. downtown, in late January 2023. […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Back in January, 109 container ships waited off the California coast to unload cargo in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s two largest ports. Consumers, stuck at home amid the pandemic, had unleashed an avalanche of orders for goods that overwhelmed factories and ports. Importers were paying $20,000 to send […]
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