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This article originally ran on St. Louis Business Journal on May 2 , 2023.  A Bridgeton-based company that provides logistics services for The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and several other clients is set to open a new 500,000-square-foot warehouse in early 2024. The expansion project is estimated to cost $40 million, said Don Davidson Jr., founder and CEO of Davidson Logistics. […]

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St. Louis Regional Freightway and local leaders on both sides of the Mississippi River have been working in tandem over the past several months to streamline the site selection process for rail-accessible development sites in the bi-state area. This collaborative effort, which also includes the six Class I railroads, economic development organizations and brokers active in the region, aimed to […]

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Missouri Department of Transportation – Freight Enhancement Program MoDOT’s Freight Enhancement Program is focused on improving and maintaining high-priority freight assets throughout Missouri. Since Fiscal Year 2014, 32 projects totaling more than $11.3 million have been funded through the program. Applicants for the program can be public, non-profit or a private entity. A minimum 20 percent match is required, with […]

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This article originally ran on KMOV on April 24, 2023.  Several state road projects are in motion in St. Charles County after an increase in the gas tax in 2021 helped pave the way for additional funding. In St. Charles, crews are currently working on the Cave Springs to Fairgrounds project, a $62 million project made up of state, federal […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on April 20, 2023.  Cincinnati-based freight brokerage firm Total Quality Logistics (TQL) said Thursday it is expanding its operations in St. Louis, with plans to add dozens of jobs locally. TQL said in a news release it will invest $370,000 in St. Louis, creating 85 new jobs locally. Its planned expansion […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on April 11, 2023.  Meridian Medical Technologies, which makes auto-injector pens and similar drug-delivery devices, said Tuesday it will invest over $100 million over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capabilities in Bridgeton. Meridian, a Maryland Heights-based contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), is part of Kindeva Drug […]

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This article originally ran in St. Louis Post Dispatch on April 14, 2023.  Electric vehicles are here for the long haul — even if they’re not yet cut out for the demands of long-haul trucking. But despite limitations with driving range, a Hazelwood-based company just bought three electric semi-trucks in what it says is a pioneering move in the region’s […]

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This article originally ran in The Waterways Journal Weekly on April 7, 2023.  The main lock chamber of Mel Price Locks and Dam, Upper Mississippi River Mile 200.8, reopened March 31 after a 90-day planned closure to allow contractors to demolish and replace an overlook building. The work was Phase II of a three-phase plan to replace the main chamber’s […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 30, 2023.  Leaders of the project to build a $55 million advanced manufacturing center in St. Louis say it will meet the needs of industry and potentially create hundreds of new businesses while providing “strong, diverse and equitable growth” for the region. The federal government last September awarded a […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on April 3, 2023.  Officials in Bridgeton are seeking proposals from developers to create an “industrial front door” to the city on 500 available acres, about 10 minutes from the airport. The request for proposals, released last month, is due May 12. The city is hoping for a “transformative development” […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 29, 2023.  A developer is proposing a new industrial project be built on farmland in Maryland Heights, near two other recently approved new warehouse projects. Developer Cornerstone Land Co. hopes to build warehouses on 30 acres at 14009 Creve Coeur Airport Road, near several other warehouse developments that […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 17, 2023.  Texwrap Packaging Systems, which designs and manufactures shrink wrapping and bundling machinery, said this week it is investing $2.25 million to expand its plant in Washington, Missouri, in Franklin County. The expansion, in Washington’s Heidmann Industrial Park, will increase the capacity at the facility, as well […]

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This article originally ran in the Sun Times News on March 10, 2023.  Terramac, a Sugar Grove, Illinois-based maker of rubber-tracked crawler carriers, has expanded its production capacity with the commissioning of a new assembly facility in St. Louis. The company, which opened its new Sugar Grove headquarters near Chicago last year, says the new industrial space will allow it […]

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This article originally ran in St. Louis Post Dispatch on March 6, 2023.  Construction on the new I-270 Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River marks another significant milestone for infrastructure investment in our area. It also is a testament to the strength of the continued collaboration that is helping to add capacity and redundancy to the St. Louis […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on March 2, 2023.  The developer behind a massive $1.2 billion project on the downtown riverfront and the city of St. Louis have reached a milestone in advancing the project’s $200 million first phase. With the approval by a second city board Tuesday of a master redevelopment agreement between the […]

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This article originally ran in Site Selection Magazine on Feb. 23, 2023.  This isn’t just an investment in our facilities, it’s an investment in our hometown community.” Those were the words of Brendan Whitworth, CEO of Anheuser-Busch, when Anheuser-Busch last spring announced a $50 million investment in its signature St. Louis brewery as part of the company’s 2021 commitment to […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 23, 2023.  Parents need to be educated that the manufacturing jobs that their children can get now are vastly different than the ones available decades ago, said a participant in a roundtable discussion at the Southwestern Illinois College Granite City campus. “Their conception of manufacturing is what it […]

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This article originally ran on St. Louis Public Radio on Feb. 14, 2023.  For the past two years, MidAmerica St. Louis Airport has posted record passenger levels, and it may be on its way to doing that again this year. “Set a record in ’21, setting another record here in ’22,” said Airport Director Bryan Johnson. “Looking at our projections […]

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This article originally ran in The Supply Chain Brain on Feb. 6, 2023.  By Mary Lamie, Executive Director of St. Louis Regional Freightway. The supply chain disruptions that have rocked the logistics industry over the past few years have made one thing abundantly clear: Infrastructure investment and innovation are key to supply chain resilience and efficiency. It takes both to […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 21, 2023.  Refresco, a Netherlands-based beverage bottler, is bolstering its presence locally with plans to invest $22 million to expand its production facility in Warren County. The company said Monday it will invest $22 million to boost production at its manufacturing plant in Truesdale, Missouri, located about an […]

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