Marquita Chapman began her career at the Department of Defense in 2004 as an intern within the Defense Contract Management Agency, and eventually rose to become the lead program manager of user facing services for the Next NGA West Program, a $2 billion construction project located in the historic St. Louis Place neighborhood.
Since joining Poetkker Construction Co. in 2007, Jon Carroll has grown his own leadership and management skills while smashing records for the general contractor.
Elizabeth Bleier leads a network of more than 600 educators and education advocates in nearly 140 schools across St. Louis in her role as executive director of Teach For America St. Louis.
Alejandra Berra, lead strategy analyst for digital assets and cryptocurrencies, joined Commerce Bank in 2009. Since then, she has expanded her portfolio and kept pace with fiscal innovation.
In her role as vice president, finance and investor relations, Robyn Bradbury led Core & Main’s initial public offering and the issuance of $800 million of equity to the public market.
Chef Nick Bognar’s food keeps earning national acclaim from the likes of Food & Wine, Esquire, and GQ magazines. He opened his first restaurant — a Southeast Asian establishment called Indo — in the Botanical Heights neighborhood in 2019. Bognar had already been working at his parents' restaurant, Nippon Tei, prior to opening Indo.
Despite warning signs and requests from parents, Missouri law enforcement were unable to remove guns from the home of the gunman who killed two people Oct. 24 at a St. Louis high school.
“Two minutes after I got into class, they said the word, the keyword that someone is in a building, 'Miles Davis is in the building,'" said Dachelle Miller, a sophomore at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.
Miller was in finance class on the third floor when she heard gunshots.
“This is where…
With radioactive testing resuming at Jana Elementary, parents are sounding off over the Hazelwood Board of Education's plan to split up Jana Elementary students.
Earlier this month, an independent study by Boston Chemical Data Corp. found Jana Elementary School is contaminated with high levels of radioactive lead. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently began its own round of testing at the school.
Right now Jana students are learning at home, but come Nov. 28, those students will report to one…
Exterior building at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's new western headquarters is nearly complete. The milestone, coming about three years into the scheduled five years of construction, means that contractors can next move to finish interiors by summer 2024.
Emerson Electric is planning to sell its headquarters in Ferguson, as it weighs establishing a home outside St. Louis. But it's also marketing another massive property it owns here, once used as a corporate retreat.
St. Louis' primary business group is once again wading into policy around the historic $513 million Rams settlement, providing the three government entities that are to split the proceeds "several options" on how to spend the money.
Despite supporters pumping millions into the issue, polls indicate it will be a close race in Missouri when voters decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana.
The St. Louis region through August this year saw no growth in its gross domestic product, according to a new study from a business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Three event spaces across the St. Louis region are undergoing more than $3 million in changes to adapt to post-Covid trends, Lodging Hospitality Management's Vice President Todd Hotaling said.
Chesterfield officials are moving toward approving substantial tax-increment financing for some $3 billion in development projects, which would have to be approved within 10 years.
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