St. Louis Building Commissioner Frank Oswald peered in through a hole in a board at the Railway Exchange Building that his department was supposed to repair Wednesday and was instantly brought back in time.
“This door led into the men’s department,” he said, recalling the high school and college days he spent working at the Famous Barr that was once inside the massive historic structure in the middle of downtown St. Louis.
It takes up an entire city block.
And now, Oswald says it also takes…
About 2,000 workers at the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant are out of work after the company temporarily closed the plant because of a strike-induced shortage of crucial parts. Those components were coming from a St. Louis-area GM plant, one of three facilities nationwide the UAW struck recently.
An early childhood education operator based in Gainesville, Florida, has acquired Bright Start Academy, which has multiple locations in St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri.
The idea behind STL 2030 Progress is to examine three areas of data – metrics to track whether the region’s economy and population are growing, a map of capital projects since 2021 and a section of the website that tracks about 140 initiatives, said Sam Murphey, GSL’s chief strategy officer. The data will be updated regularly, he said.
A walkway reemerging from the depths of the Mississippi River signals the opportunity to see a great tourist destination for some, but it sets off alarm bells for water experts.
Tower Rock is accessible by foot once again, after last year's low water levels revealed a rock walkway for the first time in years. That walkway has reemerged again this year, a whole month earlier than last year. The river usually sees its lowest point between November and January each year, so levels hitting critically…
Agrela Ecosystems has started a pilot launch of its system with plans for full commercialization in 2025, if not sooner. The company, as part of its pilot launch, says it has signed on several customers and has started generating revenue.
A portfolio company of a St. Louis-based private equity firm has expanded its so-called "space efficiency" business with the acquisition of a suburban Chicago company.
The company's planned acquisitions would bring the out-of-state grocer, which has stores encircling St. Louis in Columbia, Missouri, and Springfield, Illinois, closer to the region.
In a recent transaction, Clayton-based Summit Real Estate Group (Summit), one of St. Louis’ largest real estate development firms, closed on an existing warehouse and adjacent 23.2-acre industrial land site north of Miami for $59.7 million. A multi-tenant warehouse will be built on the land site, creating a $106 million two-building project that is scheduled for completion in quarter four of 2024.
Acquired on behalf of Summit’s Arrowrock US Industrial Fund IV LP, in partnership with TPG’s…
The goal is to serve clients through the entire lifecycle of their business, Ben Barnes, CEO and managing director of RubinBrown Corporate Finance, said in an interview.
A St. Louis-based homebuilder hopes to build 190 new houses in the $350 million Riverpointe project in St. Charles, which seeks to redevelop the riverfront there.
A historic factory building has been renovated into a new $19.1 million, 78-unit apartment complex, the first of two similar projects by the same developer. Here's a look inside.
The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation is responding to questions about the effectiveness of the software it uses to track information about marijuana products, including the results of state-mandated testing.
In a guidance document issued on Monday, the agency addressed questions regarding testing regulations that cannabis businesses rely on to ensure product is safe — defending its protocols by arguing that regulations can only do so much when “bad actors” intentionally falsify records…
An overwhelming odor lingers at the Seafood City Supermarket in University City. KSDK learned Monday that the problem was coming from the former business near 81st and Olive Boulevard.
It was more than gnats swarming the market Tuesday morning.
Crews wearing hazmat gear picked up pounds of the pungent problem: fish, canned goods and produce that have been rotting away. A glove-wearing crew also spent the day Monday filling up huge dumpsters and tackling the massive mess.
Corean Davis lives a…
The launch of new corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs surged two years ago, but signs of a pullback are emerging both nationwide and in St. Louis, fueled by a Supreme Court ruling.
Boeing confirmed that it's competing with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for contracts to build the U.S. Navy’s secretive next-generation fighter jet program.
The St. Louis-based health system, one of the nation's largest, said its fiscal 2023 results show that its operations and volumes "have been impacted by and are stabilizing from the volatility and operational disruptions of the prolonged pandemic," amid broader inflationary and recessionary pressures in the U.S. economy.
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