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A St. Louis-based construction company has added to its portfolio of businesses by acquiring one of the region’s largest office furniture dealers.

Disruptel, a St. Louis startup that has developed technology to allow viewers to interact more directly with their televisions, has been acquired by a software firm based in San Francisco. The local startup says the deal will help bring its technology to market.

The St. Louis Business Journal is now accepting nominations for its fourth annual Innovation in Philanthropy Awards, a program that celebrates innovative partnerships between nonprofit organizations and local companies. Nominations are due Jan. 29.

David Kelly, chief global strategist for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said earlier this week that the Fed may push the economy into a recession next year by continuing to raise interest rates.

There was clearly hope among business interests that the city could return to some of the politics that reigned over two decades under former mayors Francis Slay and Lyda Krewson. Tuesday's election result makes clear that's not going to happen.

The store, which will be the second location of the grocery chain's natural food store concept, will open in spring 2023.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said preliminary results of contamination testing at Jana Elementary School showed no levels of radiation higher than “the level of radioactivity Mother Nature already provides.” The preliminary results were delivered during a Hazelwood School Board special meeting Wednesday morning. Previously, the government agency had only tested the banks of Coldwater Creek within the property boundary. "From a radiological standpoint, the school is safe,” Col. Kevin Golinghorst…

The 14,000-square-foot facility will hold additional shell space for future expansion. officials said.

While Amendment 3, Missouri's ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana for adults, took much of the spotlight during Tuesday's elections, three other statewide amendments represented a broad range of proposals and drew mixed results. They were joined on the ballot by a constitutional convention question, and the state auditor's race. Amendment 1, proposed by legislators, asked voters to amend the state's constitution to allow the General Assembly to override current restrictions on the…

Existing medical dispensaries will be able to transition to include adult-use sales and are likely to begin selling by early February of next year.

Four of the St. Louis County Council's seven seats appeared on the ballot in Tuesday's election.

The result came in an unusual race in which the incumbent touted his work fighting the Covid-19 pandemic while the challenger cast the contest in terms of whether the region would "continue to decline."

The result marks another win for the city's progressives and loss for big business interests.

The result, which was expected, ensures that both of Missouri's senators remain Republicans.

The new "chief downtown officer" for Greater St. Louis Inc. arrives with several decades of experience working in New Orleans and his hometown of Detroit. After just two months, he already has ideas for downtown St. Louis.

The contract will have to be ratified by the roughly 11,000 workers at 14 plants, including the Granite City Works.

Panera Bread's "urban stores" have a 40% smaller footprint than other Panera bakery-cafes across the country.

"To see, in addition to our spectacular lateral growth we've experienced in the last three years in the St. Louis market, that our homegrown lawyers are succeeding as well shows that we're doing great," Jane Arnold, managing partner of Polsinelli's St. Louis office, said in an interview.

Amid ongoing feedback sessions on its new consolidation plan, the Archdiocese of St. Louis announced Tuesday it would be postponing restructuring of its Catholic elementary schools until the 2024-25 school year. Launched in January, the “All Things New” consolidation plan works to restructure the Catholic church in a way that's sustainable for generations to come. The plan includes hard changes, such as school closures and parish mergers, as well as welcome changes, such as higher teacher salaries…

Tabski says its ordering and payment technology can help restaurants navigate industry staffing shortages while helping to increase check sizes and table turnover by making it easier for customers to purchase more items and allowing them to more quickly close out their tabs.