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Panera Brands on Tuesday appointed a new chief executive, a move that comes as the fast-casual restaurant company prepares to offer its shares on the public market.

St. Louis-area Catholics on Saturday will get a chance to learn the results of the parish restructuring plan known as All Things New. Archdiocese officials said Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski will announce details of the plan at a press conference at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Rozanski will give an update on the future of all the parishes and priest assignments. Officials said after Rozanski makes his announcement Saturday, all information will be posted at 6 p.m. on allthingsnew.archstl.org. In a statement…

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Peter & Paul Community Services, a nonprofit that provides housing and support services to people who are homeless, will have a new chief executive early next month.

The move comes five months after Jim Murray was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer following the announcement that Brent Layton, Centene’s then-president and COO, intended to retire late this year.

A new $10.6 million senior living apartment complex in the Central West End is in line to receive tax incentives under plans being considered by a city board.

Another weekend of car break-ins, a carjacking and groups of armed young adults in downtown St. Louis led Cardinals management to revamp security plans. Baseball fans will see more uniformed police officers and security guards outside the stadium, according to Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III. Police said Sunday they were investigating at least 30 different car break-ins at parking lots around Busch Stadium, with calls to police coming in during Sunday's Cardinals game. “We've been meeting…

John Ulett, formerly a co-host of KSHE's morning show, announced a semi-retirement last month after 46 years at the station. We sat down with him to hear about how he first got into radio in high school.

Redlands, California-based geospatial technology company Esri said Monday it is opening a new 15-person office at the Globe Building as it shuts a Cortex space, joining a cluster of geotech companies already operating from the downtown St. Louis office building.

Sweetie Pie’s 2nd Act — a resurrection of the restaurant business that was featured for nine years in the reality TV show "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's” — is being proposed for a Kingsway East development in St. Louis.

Fans of In-N-Out Burger won’t be able to enjoy the company’s food in the Show-Me State anytime soon. “I am able to confirm that we do not have current plans to open restaurants in Missouri,” Chief Operating Officer Denny Warnick said in a statement to the Business Journal.

A bid to stop construction of an apartment complex by Forest Park has been dismissed by a judge after three years of litigation, after the apartment complex in question was already built and opened.

Bud Light has posted the sixth consecutive week of double-digit sales declines, a development that's "starting to look like a trend," an industry analyst said.

The pizza and pasta restaurant's newest location is its biggest, both in size and revenue. Its owner says three more locations are in the works, and the expansion won't stop there.

Intramotev, a St. Louis-based startup developing an autonomous, zero-emissions railcar, later this year plans to deliver its first railcars to a customer.

Axiom Space and Build-A-Bear Workshop have partnered to fly a furry fifth crew member alongside the Axiom Mission 2 astronauts — a teddy bear named GiGi.

St. Louis-based Energizer, which has made batteries in the North Carolina county for 75 years, confirms plans to stay in its current two-site operation there, where it already employs more than 400.

Lux Living sued an affiliate of 3D Development, alleging that the local builder failed to satisfy closing conditions for properties in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District where it plans a 246-apartment complex. 3D said it already had been preparing to file suit against the St. Louis developer over its purported failure to close on the $5.5 million sale.

The largest home developer in St. Louis is hoping to build more than 100 houses as part of a planned urban-style neighborhood in St. Louis County.

A city of St. Louis bill filed Friday would set up a regulatory system for short-term rentals like those found on services Airbnb and Vrbo.