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St. Louis grocery chain Fields Foods on Tuesday abruptly closed its Pagedale location, just months after its opening.

Enterprise Bank & Trust says a Fenton auto parts maker has defaulted on $10 million in loans, as it seeks control of the business through a receiver.

The St. Louis Board of Aldermen on Thursday approved a new ordinance to regulate open-carry weapons in the city. The board voted 14-0 in favor of Board Bill 29. Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard was absent from the meeting. The bill now heads to Mayor Tishaura Jones, who has said she was studying the legislation. The bill would outlaw "openly carrying or displaying any firearm readily capable of lethal use within the City unless the person possesses a valid concealed carry endorsement or permit." Violators…

St. Louis County has released sale details for the property and vacant lot it sold to a developer, which has proposed a high-rise apartment tower at the site.

Dubbed “Good & Hi,” the retail line’s first product is “French-Hi Sauce,” a THC-infused, Andalouse-inspired fry sauce.

Leaders of the initiative to build an advanced manufacturing center in north St. Louis have hired an official from the region’s lead economic development agency as chief operating officer and deputy executive director.

Clayton-based Comprose, which provides software to help companies standardize their policies and procedures, has named a longtime employee as its president.

St. Louis Inno on Tuesday hosted its Fire Awards and Startup Exit Awards, recognizing more than a dozen startups and innovators that have achieved major milestones.

Through St. Louis Inno's 2023 Fire Awards and Startup Exit Awards, we honor companies and individuals that have recorded stellar achievements in business. We often use data — revenue growth, employment totals and funding — to measure that. But it’s also also about impact, whether that is providing purposeful employment, solving societal challenges or delighting consumers.

Access Point, a nonprofit organization created in 2021 by St. Louis-based IT firm Daugherty Business Solutions, seeks to help students from underrepresented communities begin careers in software development. It is expanding the number of students in the program, while also pursuing expansion in new states.

The Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur programming and support arm of Saint Louis University’s Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, has returned to operations after a 3.5-year hiatus. Within the past year, the Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship says it has hosted more than 50 events and launched new programming, interacting with more than 150 students at SLU.

After a year in which it said it had record engagement in its entrepreneurial programming, Washington University's Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship says it expects to help create more startups in St. Louis.

For the Minority Entrepreneurship Collaborative Center for Advancement (MECCA) at Harris-Stowe State University, highlights over the past year include providing $50,000 to local entrepreneurs through its pitch competitions and having more than 70 graduates from its business development programs.

The new shopping carts use so-called "computer vision" AI to automatically identify items, allowing customers to bag their groceries as they shop, bypass the checkout line and pay through the cart from anywhere in the store.

Munsok So's So Hospitality Group on Friday opened the third location of Korean fried chicken restaurant Kimchi Guys and, it will open a new location of Drunken Fish, a sushi and Japanese dining spot, on Aug. 3.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday shed new light on how a sex tape involving the former chief of staff for St. Louis County Executive Sam Page circulated in St. Louis County government last year and alleges there could be more victims. The woman in a video filed the lawsuit, alleging she was recorded without her consent by Calvin Harris, Page's former chief of staff. In the lawsuit, she alleged that Rodney Leger, who was criminally charged in the case last week, conspired with the mother of Harris' child…

Officials in the city of Brentwood agreed this week to a $436 million redevelopment of the busy Manchester Road commercial corridor, assisted with an estimated 88.4 million in tax incentives and possible eminent domain.

Lewis Rice LLC has formally established a practice group to better market the legal work the St. Louis-based firm does for fashion, apparel and beauty brands.

Idol Wolf on Tuesday, July 25, will open inside the upcoming 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis at 1528 Locust St. in Downtown West as one of the hotel’s two food and beverage concepts led by executive chef Matthew Daughaday, known for his work at Reed’s American Table, Juniper and Taste.

The St. Louis Community Foundation, one of the region's biggest foundations and one of the nation's largest such nonprofit organizations, has found its new leader locally after a nationwide search.