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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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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Post Dispatch on Feb. 17, 2023.   Boeing added hundreds to its St. Louis-area workforce last year, with an eye toward the next generations of defense aircraft. The company added 900 jobs in the region in 2022. Many were engineers, who will be needed as the company shifts to future products, Steve Nordlund, […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Post Dispatch on Feb. 13, 2023.  Facing a worker shortage, companies in the St. Louis region are working in new ways with local schools to build a pipeline of students who can eventually fill open jobs in manufacturing and the trades. The companies are starting new programs and growing existing ones, and […]

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This article originally ran on St. Louis Business Journal on Feb. 8, 2023.  Ferguson-based Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) will keep its headquarters in St. Louis, the company said Wednesday. Emerson’s announcement, which came as it shared financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2023, comes after it announced in October it has sold its headquarters in Ferguson and would search […]

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This article originally ran in the Illinois.Gov on Monday, February 6, 2023.  ___________________________________________________________________________________ Governor Pritzker today joined state and local leaders, along with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), the Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives (CNI), and Intersect Illinois in Pullman to announce $40 million in Rebuild Illinois Capital Funds to supercharge the development of megasites – large, developed sites […]

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This article originally ran in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on February 5, 2023.  The Page and 141 area of Maryland Heights saw no development for decades. Within a span of four years, it’s slated to be fully built out as demand for warehouse space soars. The area is a prime target as one of the last developable swaths of […]

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This article originally ran in the Site Selection Magazine in January.  In August of 2022, Governor Pritzker announced that under Rebuild Illinois, the Illinois Department of Transportation, had made more than $8.6 billion in improvements to some 4,422 miles of highway and 412 bridges. “Rebuild Illinois has undertaken a massive transformation of our state’s transportation systems” says Pritzker. “And not […]

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