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The restaurateurs behind 58hundred in the city of St. Louis and The Block in Webster Groves have unveiled a new establishment featuring dry-aged steaks and classic cocktails.

The nonprofit will use $2.5 million of the funds to increase its staff and pay for training, curriculum, and instruction for its Geospatial Intelligence Technician program.

A St. Louis board approved a series of variances for a new 30-story apartment tower in the Central West End, bringing the $135 million project closer to final approval from the Board of Aldermen.

Emerson Electric Co. said Friday it has acquired a California-based software firm, a move that follows an equity investment previously made into the company. It said the deal will help its customers with more quickly bringing drugs to market.

Panera Brands, a privately held company that includes the Panera Bread, Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Bagels, said the two groups have called off the deal, announced in November 2021, “in light of unfavorable capital market conditions, including the deterioration of the market for initial public offerings over the past several months.” However, it isn't deterred from its ambition to become a publicly traded company again.

Dr. Faisal Kahn, whose tenure in St. Louis was marked by intense criticism over Covid-19 mask mandates, will now lead a department of 2,000 people.

The Constitution addressed what government could not do, what powers the government did not possess. The document was to protect “the people” from being the servants of the government.

Opportunities to secure government contracts were first authorized by the Small Business Act of 1953, in turn leading to the development of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to counsel small businesses and ensure that smaller firms receive an equitable share of federal contracts. The government has also invested significant funding to help grow the local business ecosystem and set forth several ways to help small businesses reap the full benefits of the Small Business Act. The history…

You’ve heard of minority-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses and women-owned businesses, but you aren’t sure whether you should “get certified.” How do you decide if certification is right for your business? Which certification do you pursue? How long does the certification process take? Here are five things to consider if you are thinking about pursuing a certification — whether an MBE, WBE, DBE or other designation. Who is your target customer? As attorneys who counsel businesses…

This year we celebrate the fifth anniversary of 39 North, our 600-acre innovation district located in the heart of agriculture. Anchored by the Danforth Center, BRDG Park, the Helix Center Incubator, Bayer Crop Science, Benson Hill and the Yield Lab accelerator, 39 North sits at the center of it all: agriculture, bioscience, big data, geospatial technology and logistics. Since its inception in 2017, 39 North has experienced significant growth. St. Louis is home to over 1,000 plant science PhDs and…

The crowdfunding entity, Nvsted, said Thursday its leadership has chosen to “pause” operations and that its fundraising platform “will no longer be publicly accessible” by the end July.

A developer is moving ahead on a $24 million plan to turn a former tobacco company building into apartments, after a previous plan to redevelop the space into offices fell through due to the pandemic.

This week's entry in our Advance STL project, which explores the region's biggest challenges, might also be the most compelling. It offers insightful tales of the immigrant experience from people who are having a lasting impact on the St. Louis business community. But it also shines a spotlight on how, despite those successes, we still lag our peers when it comes to attracting the foreign-born and other critical demographics.

St. Louis, long a slow-growing metro, has plans to boost its immigrant population — a strategy that prevented more decline from 2010 to 2019. But, to a large extent, it's constrained by the long-standing controversy over the U.S. immigration system.

A subsidiary launched earlier this year by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to create startups from its campus has established its first company. Peptyde Bio is focused on developing natural fungicides that can protect crops from disease.

Of the 12 St. Louis-area restaurants recognized for their wine lists, only two were newcomers to the honor.

Zbigniew and Agnes Matukin didn’t plan to start a business when they immigrated from Poland to the United States. Now they've built their company and related business entities to about 130 employees with annual revenue of $20 million.

Karthik Raghavan came to the U.S. as part of a joint master’s program. The St. Louisan now runs a growing pharmaceutical manufacturing company, which in 2017 got FDA approval for a dog medicine. It's now seeking approval of a human drug to boost operations further.

Ajla Zigic came to St. Louis in 1995 as a refugee, and saw her parents work hard to build a better life. It's why she's devoted her career to access to capital, being part of a team distributing $200 million in low and moderate-income areas.

Brian Barlay, an immigrant from Sierra Leone, runs a consulting business with an emphasis on helping immigrants acclimate to the St. Louis area and American culture. He wants more to come here, reasoning that they're “driven and entrepreneurial.”