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This article originally ran in The Illinois Business Journal on July 7, 2023.  West Star Aviation officially broke ground on July 6, 2023, on a major expansion project at their East Alton, Ill. (ALN) MRO facility. Once complete, the expansion will add 75,700 square feet of space bringing the total facility to just over 500,000 square feet of hangar, back […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on June 30, 2023.  An abrasives manufacturer has finished its expansion of its St. Charles County factory, its second expansion in three years. VSM Abrasives, the O’Fallon, Missouri-headquartered U.S. subsidiary of a German abrasives manufacturer, has completed a $6 million, 50,000-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing plant at 1012 E. Wabash […]

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This article originally ran in The St. Louis Business Journal on July 3, 2023.  Bastian Solutions, an Indianapolis-based firm that provides material handling systems and supply chain technology, has opened a new facility to house its robotics division in St. Louis. Bastian has begun operating from its new 140,177-square-foot facility at 3143 Riverport Tech Center Drive in Maryland Heights. Bastian […]

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This article originally ran on Fox 2 Now on July 1, 2023.  Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday signed a close to $52 billion state budget, which includes billions in funding to expand Interstate 70 but also cuts roughly $555 million in spending lawmakers wanted. Explaining $555 million in cuts to the spending plan legislators passed in May, the Republican governor […]

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This article originally ran on St. Louis CNR on June 20, 2023.  Construction is underway on the first of five planned distribution facilities at the $129 million Lakeside Logistics Center in St. Peters, Mo..  Contegra Construction broke ground on a 490,000-square-foot distribution center for developer NorthPoint Development.  The facility will be completed by the end of this year. Located on a 190-acre site at 16000 […]

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This article originally ran on the American Journal of Transportation on June 16, 2023.  Supply & Demand Chain Executive publication has named the St. Louis Regional Freightway and Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis (TRRA) as one of the winners of this year’s Top Supply Chain Projects awards. The award recognizes the organizations for the $222 million Merchants Bridge replacement […]

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This article originally ran on Spectrum News on June 16, 2023.  Construction will begin in December on a two-phase project that officials say will dramatically increase activity and grow jobs at a St. Clair County port along the Kaskaskia River. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., visited the Kaskaskia Regional Port District terminal in New Athens Friday, to talk about an […]

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This article originally ran on St. Louis Post Dispatch on June 13, 2023. The recent opening of a major expansion of MidAmerica St. Louis Airport’s terminal was marked at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday attended by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other officials. The project added more than 41,000 square feet to the terminal, almost doubling its size. The expansion area […]

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This article originally ran on St. Louis Business Journal on May 24, 2023. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has OK’d a master plan for St. Louis Lambert International Airport that runs through 2040, including a massive project to reconfigure the facility with a new, single terminal, the airport said Wednesday. The FAA, in conjunction with Lambert consultant WSP, will now […]

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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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