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Construction firm McCarthy Building Cos. has named new leadership for its central region, which includes St. Louis.

The country club, dating to 1922, says it has lost members due to a damaged swimming pool.

Like many people, Joan Elhoffer started working at McDonald’s when she was 16 years old. But Elhoffer, now 65, never left the ubiquitous golden arches and has built a long career as an owner of St. Louis area McDonald’s locations.

The new reporter at the St. Louis Business Journal, Samir Knox, will be focusing on politics and innovation. He grew up in the St. Louis area and says he took this job "because I care deeply about this region and the people in it."

Side Project Pizza, the planned "reimagined pizza concept" of Side Project Brewing, will open Friday in Maplewood.

The impending closure of Mom’s Deli in south St. Louis follows a legal dispute between the family members that owns the longtime deli and its real estate, resulting in the eviction of the business from its home on Jamieson Avenue.

Gateway Fiber, a local developer of fiber broadband networks, is merging with a broadband company based in suburban Kansas City.

A bill changing the terms of the Missouri minimum wage law approved by voters four months ago will leave all the promised benefits in place but may delay their implementation, the chairman of a House committee looking at the law said Wednesday. State Rep. David Casteel, a High Ridge Republican, told members of the House Commerce Committee during a hearing that they will rewrite the several bills seeking to change Proposition A. That process will take time, he said, telling them not to expect…

This week's Arch City Report Podcast examines a stalemate over the Rams settlement money in the city of St. Louis, plus a steep decline in development in the city. Plus, we preview an event featuring economic developers, who will explain how they look to sell St. Louis. The podcast, new this year and featuring Business Journal staff, looks to help you quickly understand the biggest stories in town each week. The stories discussed this week are: Plans for Rams money reach stalemate: St. Louis…

Kroger Co. has brought St. Louis-based pharmacy benefits services provider Express Scripts back into the fold after a couple of years apart.

The parent of the area bank posted a big loss in the fourth quarter, but said it has taken "significant steps" to reduce credit risk.

Capacity, the St. Louis-based artificial intelligence-driven software company, has acquired a United Kingdom-based scheduling software business.

The developer who last year purchased the AT&T Tower Wednesday disclosed plans for a $350 million redevelopment of the massive, vacant downtown St. Louis skyscraper, saying new subsidies being weighed by state lawmakers are critical to the project’s completion.

The massive music production development in Chesterfield, Gateway Studios, said it will open in May and is now accepting bookings.

Mom’s Deli, which has been in business for more than 45 years in south St. Louis, plans to leave its longtime home on Jamieson Avenue and reopen elsewhere.

Missouri Republicans formally began the push to reinstate a ban on abortion Tuesday night, with a proposed constitutional amendment outlawing the procedure with limited exceptions for victims rape and incest. A Missouri House committee heard four hours of testimony on legislation filed by GOP state Rep. Melanie Stinnett of Springfield that seeks to overturn an abortion-rights amendment approved by voters in November. The previous ban, which was in place for two years, only permitted abortions in…

The St. Louis County Council on Tuesday afternoon took residents' issues straight to the leaders of both Transportation & Public Works and the Department of Revenue. While those departments do very different things for St. Louis County residents, they are dealing with the same problem: staffing. During early January winter storms, residents couldn't get out of their homes for days, and Transportation & Public Works said they couldn't clear the roads fast enough because of the way the storm hit,…

City development nonprofit St. Louis Development Corp. will have to consider different funding sources to acquire the Railway Exchange Building after the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday reached a stalemate on how to spend the Rams settlement money, likely causing any plan for the settlement funds to be put off for months.

Development in the city of St. Louis has fallen off in the past couple years. Increased interest rates and costs are overwhelmingly cited. But the mayor's altered tax incentive policy may also be a factor. Meanwhile, city development agency St. Louis Development Corp. has upped its travel as part of a push to build a roster of developers.

“In St. Louis, for St. Louis” isn't just a slogan, writes WashU Chancellor Andrew D. Martin, who provides data on the university's economic impact to the region.