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The long-shuttered hotel would reopen under a Marriott brand.

The owner of a power plant that provides steam to dozens of buildings has filed a more than $89 million lawsuit.

The discount provider of eye examinations, eyeglasses and contact lenses will open a new Metro East store April 12.

The new managing partner in the Kansas City office who joined the firm in 2006 also focuses on business combinations, investment valuation, and inventory reporting and valuation across a variety of industries.

Blue Bell Creameries last month opened a 16,000-square-foot distribution center in St. Peters, allowing the ice cream manufacturer to begin selling its products in most major retailers across the St. Louis region.

A local chef has advanced to the next round of the 2024 James Beard Foundation Awards, the top prize of the culinary world.

The biggest project – the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District's continued bond issues to fund the $7.2 billion Project Clear program – was favorably met by voters.

A new downtown Kansas City ballpark and renovations at KC's Arrowhead Stadium went down to defeat as Jackson County, Missouri, voters, by a 58.1% to 41.9% margin, rejected a sales tax supporting the projects.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that state marijuana regulators were within their authority to deny a cultivation business license to a company that failed to include proper paperwork with its application. Mo Cann Do Inc. applied for a cultivation license to grow marijuana in 2019. The company was denied when the state said it didn’t include a certification of good standing from the Missouri Secretary of State’s office in its application. However, the company argues state…

The office brokerage team at a commercial real estate firm in St. Louis has moved to a competitor.

Investment giant Vanguard Group is acquiring the sprawling office campus in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina, that was originally planned to house St. Louis-based Centene Corp.'s East Coast headquarters.

Gainsight, a software company that got its start in St. Louis before moving its headquarters to California, is bringing its annual conference to St. Louis.

Lutheran Senior Services, a nonprofit provider of housing, care and support services for older adults, will expand to another state with the acquisition of some senior living assets from a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit.

As the Dome prepares to resume a football schedule with the Battlehawks' home opener on Saturday, its operator says the venue is far busier than people realize. But long-term questions remain about how to maintain the facility.

A St. Louis-area awning and shade business is back under the ownership of its founding family.

The incentive package includes four separate programs.

Paric Holdings, parent company of several design-build firms and one of St. Louis' biggest privately held companies, has named a new CEO.

Construction crews are preparing to install new durable plastic linings inside aging concrete sewer pipes in Cahokia Heights. Cracks in the aging underground concrete trunk line previously led to dangerous flooding issues in the region, with hazardous sewage waste backing up into homes and businesses. Local city officials hosted prominent politicians from Washington, D.C., to break ground on the $4.6 million dollar Sanitary Sewer Trunkline Rehabilitation project Monday morning. Insituform Technologies…

Proposed legislation to regulate intoxicating hemp products could potentially ban the majority of the Delta-8 drinks and edibles on the market in Missouri today, the state’s top marijuana regulator told an industry meeting late last week in St. Louis. “This is really an unanswered question,” said Amy Moore, director of the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation. Moore was among a panel of speakers at the National Cannabis Industry Association’s Missouri Stakeholder Summit who discussed…

The restaurant marks the local, West Coast-style taco chain’s sixth location in St. Louis and ninth overall.