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Lever1, a provider of human resources services based in the Kansas City area, has added a St. Louis office.

Shovels dug into the dirt Tuesday morning at Tower Grove Park near Arsenal Street and Bent Avenue. St. Louis leaders broke ground while trying to break a stigma. Two new basketball courts are coming in late fall to the 289-acre park, and crews were already hard at work following the ceremony. A ribbon cutting could happen in late October or early November. The two full-size courts will have post-tension concrete for durability and four nets total. Bill Reininger, the executive director of Tower…

Core & Main Inc. (NYSE: CNM), the Maryland Heights-based distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products, has agreed to buy J.W. D’Angelo Co. Inc., of Southern California. Terms weren't disclosed.

Emerson Electric's move from its longtime Ferguson campus to a new downtown Clayton office building is the most notable example yet of St. Louis companies' flight to quality after the pandemic, while emphasizing the neighborhood's relative strength for leasing compared with other parts of the metro area, observers said.

Craft Alliance, a St. Louis-based visual arts nonprofit, has chosen its next leader after a national search.

Chesterfield-based agriculture giant Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) has a chance to be part of a small class of companies — those with $100 billion in annual revenue — after announcing plans Tuesday to merge with Netherlands-based agriculture firm Viterra.

A St. Charles senior living community is changing hands, and the fate of 85 employees is unclear.

Vantage Credit Union has launched a new digital banking platform as well as a redesigned website and executives said early results show the upgrades are attracting more members to the channels.

Notoros Inc., a St. Louis-based startup developing blockchain technology designed to boost cybersecurity, has been chosen for a new accelerator program launched by the University of Chicago.

The Chesterfield-based public company said Tuesday it has entered into a merger agreement with a Netherlands-based firm in a deal that would create a new, combined company topping $100 billion in annual sales. Here's where the combined business would be based.

Andrew Gavin Wynne, formerly an attorney at a St. Louis law firm, was sentenced Monday to 31 months in prison for faking legal documents and forging judges' signatures in cases for at least 30 clients.

The historic Famous-Barr warehouse in Midtown now used as a Goodwill Outlet Center would be repurposed into a mixed-use development with apartments as part of developer Green Street’s $60 million Armory STL development.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his family put one of their Kansas City homes up for sale, listing it for nearly $3 million.

A procedural move in the state Senate known as the "standing division" seems symptomatic of our state’s system of term limits.

The family-owned company said Monday it has entered into a name, image and likeness (NIL) sponsorship with Luther Burden III, a wide receiver for the University of Missouri Tigers.

Billy G’s Finer Diner, a spinoff of Billy G’s in Kirkwood, opened Friday at 1772 Clarkson Road in Chesterfield, in the former Balaban’s space.

Clayco, the Chicago-based design-build and construction firm with large operations in St. Louis, has named its first talent chief.

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said Monday that City Hall is “sad” that Dot Foods decided to move its annual trade show from downtown St. Louis to Denver next year, but she expressed hope the event will return someday.

The board of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District has started the search process to replace its longtime executive director and CEO, Brian Hoelscher.

A growing Atlanta-based infrastructure services company that has most of its staff in the St. Louis area has acquired the assets of a an Iowa business and added a C-suite post.