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The firm's new leader was previously CEO at another St. Louis-area real estate and development firm.

The Clayton Board of Education has until Monday to back out of its deal to buy the Caleres office campus in Clayton and will seriously weigh its options between now and then, district officials said at a forum Wednesday, with some adding their ideas for the site.

The private company wanting to fly surveillance drones over St. Louis neighborhoods is moving forward with its plan. The company now is looking for drone pilots to get the job done. That company, SMS Novel Films, called the surveillance program launch a "work retreat" and is asking for drone pilots to come to St. Louis in February to start capturing footage of our streets. Residents said they are still very concerned. Residents say this all started when they found out SMS Novel Films was going…

Daniel Schmitt for 30 years has operated a classic car dealership in St. Louis, growing the business to $30 million. His inventory over the years has included an array of vehicles, including several previously owned by celebrities.

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the St. Louis-based nonprofit research institute, looked to one of the region's largest private companies for its new board chair.

A state Senate hearing on a medical provider tax devolved Wednesday into a fight over the political tactics of Missouri Right to Life, with a Democrat dropping an obscenity and Republicans slamming the group for injecting its anti-abortion politics into unrelated issues. Only one member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Republican Sen. Denny Hoskins of Warrensburg, defended the organization. A candidate in the Republican primary for secretary of state, Hoskins has been endorsed by Missouri…

Missouri circuit courts have cleared more than 100,000 marijuana charges from people’s criminal records so far — a mandate that was a big selling point for those who voted to pass the constitutional amendment that legalized recreational marijuana in 2022. However, court officials said it’s hard to determine how many more charges are left because many court records are not digitized. The state initially identified digital cases that could potentially be eligible for expungement and gave that…

The new St. Louis firm is already taking on projects, including a 65-acre mixed use development in Wisconsin.

Owners of Central West End property are suing the Salt + Smoke restaurant over a large 2022 fire that caused that and another restaurant to close.

UMSL's entrepreneurship program this summer will begin a $3 million renovation to its facilities. Separately, the program announced the next cohort in its Anchor Accelerator program, awarding $250,000 in grants to local entrepreneurs.

Legislation to provide public subsidies for a downtown St. Louis hotel redevelopment advanced Wednesday after failing to move forward last month amid a dispute between the developer and a local union.

The 1% earnings tax is the city of St. Louis’ largest source of revenue, accounting for nearly 40% of its general fund. An ongoing legal dispute, and a push by lawmakers to eliminate the tax, threatens to push the city budget toward a “fiscal cliff.”

The deal announced by Bally Sports Midwest's parent company calls for broadcasting games on Amazon Prime, though, at the moment, that doesn't apply to all teams. Here's what has to happen for the Cardinals to have a direct-to-consumer TV option.

A global packaging business, one of the St. Louis region's fastest-growing private companies, has expanded its footprint in Australia with an acquisition.

The adviser will lead a quality review in response to the inflight malfunction of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 that lost a piece of its fuselage.

The next Missouri House speaker could take the gavel as mainstream Republicans are forced to reckon with not just Democrats – but also their far-right colleagues.

St. Louis on Tuesday sued in state court to halt what it described as an illegal boarding scheme that preys on the "vulnerable and indigent" and nets its principal $40,000 a month.

It could be “disastrous” to the interests of the entire region if the Clayton school district entered the risky real estate business and purchased the Caleres office campus, developer and Clayco founder Bob Clark said.

More than 200 residents were evacuated Tuesday after a broken pipe flooded the first three floors of an apartment building in downtown St. Louis. An assistant manager at the Mark Twain Building complex on North 9th Street, owned by Anchor Point Hotel LLC, said all 213 residents of the building were evacuated onto five warming busses. Video from inside the building showed water flowing down one of the hallways. The residents, many of whom are elderly, may be out of their apartments for a day or…

The University of Missouri-St. Louis has hired an administrator and faculty member from a Dayton, Ohio, university as the next dean of its College of Business Administration.