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The decision marks a key step in helping the new owner of the 37-year-old building, Missouri's largest office tower, procure historic tax credits that could help fund its redevelopment. Here's a look at the next steps in the process.

Bayer has said the “weight of scientific evidence and the conclusions of all expert regulators worldwide continue to support the safety of glyphosate-based herbicides and that they are not carcinogenic.”

The bank has taken over the location of a restaurant that was a staple in downtown for nearly 50 years.

The utility plans to buy a 200-megawatt solar installation in central Missouri that's expected to produce enough energy to power about 40,000 homes.

Since its launch in 2020, St. Louis startup Kitchen Stickin’ LLC has sold its innovative tape dispenser online, but at only a single brick-and-mortar retail location. This week, Kitchen Stickin’ will participate in Walmart Inc.’s annual Open Call event, and it's not the only local company that will have a chance to land its product on Walmart shelves.

AAA predicts there will be a record amount of people going on road trips over this Independence Day weekend, even with high gas prices. The organization predicts 42 million people will hit the road from June 30 to July 4. AAA predicts 47.9 million people in the U.S. will travel over the Independence Day holiday weekend. This is an increase of 3.7% over 2021. Travel volumes are just 2% shy of those seen in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic began. The estimation comes from the organization’s yearly…

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 5.81% for the week ended June 23 — up from 5.78% the prior week

Executives from ICL Group, Barry-Wehmiller Group and UniGroup explain the growth in international revenue, and what they expect for the next few years.

It hasn’t even been three years since businesses around the globe closed their offices and sent people home to work from their kitchen tables for what many thought would be just a few weeks. In the time since then, companies and employees alike have adapted to ever-changing circumstances around the way we work and learned just what’s possible with a little flexibility. In fact, recent research found that 78% of business leaders agreed that the pandemic has made them realize that the way they…

Frankie Martin's Garden comes from the backers of 9 Mike Garden, a food truck destination in Affton.

A plan to build an apartment complex at the site of a historic midcentury modern building in the Central West End is opposed by city staffers, even after the developer revised the project to preserve the building’s facade.

The new president of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis is focusing her one year as president on exploring the meaning of the oath lawyers take to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Two St. Louis-based affiliated contracting businesses have doubled their shared office space in the Kansas City area.

State and local officials could pave the way for historic tax credits to help fund the redevelopment of the state’s largest office building, the former AT&T tower in downtown St. Louis, if a bid to place the building on the National Register of Historic Places is successful.

After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down on June 24, 2022 – has far-reaching consequences. The Conversation asked Nicole Huberfeld and Linda C. McClain, health law and constitutional law experts at Boston University, to explain what just happened, and what happens next. The Supreme Court decided by a 6 to 3 majority to uphold Mississippi’s…

The Supreme Court has ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, the longtime legal precedent guaranteeing the right of legal abortion in the U.S.  The 6-3 ruling was handed down Friday morning, a major decision after months of protests and years of legal fighting over abortion rights in the country. The court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a determination of the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law banning most abortions after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.  Advocates…

The financial future of Hazelwood is hanging on by a thread. The north St. Louis County community may be facing bankruptcy. The financial woes have been building for years and the mayor says the city may not be able to sustain things much longer. On Wednesday, Mayor Matthew Robinson posted a letter to residents. It says without voter or judicial relief, a Chapter 9 bankruptcy of Missouri's 26th largest city and the seventh largest city in St. Louis County may be inevitable. This letter shed some…

Updated with comments from businesses involved. A three-alarm fire Friday morning at 392 N. Euclid Ave. has damaged two businesses and displaced one family. The fire started just before 2:30 a.m. Friday. Fire Captain Garon Mosby with the St. Louis Fire Department said a Salt + Smoke barbecue and a Mission Taco sustained damage on the first floor of the building. The Salt + Smoke was severely damaged, Mosby said. Both restaurant groups told KSDK they're trying to figure out what's next. "It's…

Marc Bernstein and Andrew Glantz are among a group of startup founders in their 20s who have decided to operate their companies in St. Louis, relocating them to the region or headquartering them in St. Louis after attending local colleges. The Business Journal caught up with the pair to discuss why they choose to run their companies here.

Right now, many of us are feeling either a little dumb, or uncertain, or scared about our economy... understandable. These times happen, always have – but with their own set of circumstances – and they will resolve.