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Growing up in Europe, retired Brig. Gen. John Michel often spent his summers helping run a family restaurant in France. Today, he's on a mission to change the hospitality industry with Soulcial Kitchen, a Swansea incubator featuring food trucks.

Eligible employees at the firm, which previously delayed a return to offices, may voluntarily return to the office even earlier than the new date.

"Why would I want to go anywhere else? I love it here," Berube said in a post on the team's website.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the state will lift its indoor mask mandate for most locations beginning Monday, Feb. 28. However, the change does not include schools. The governor made the announcement Wednesday after reports started circulating about the plan Tuesday evening. Starting Feb. 28, establishments no longer have to require masks indoors. However, Gov. Pritzker emphasized businesses and communities can continue to have their own mandates and mitigations, and the public should…

Construction on all five of the warehouses, which range in size from 130,900 to 423,000 square feet, should finish this summer.

After a few quiet years, economic activity from the biggest conventions booked at the America's Center Convention Complex in 2022 is projected to look a bit more like it did prior to the Covid-19 pandemic.

As part of the divesture deal, Belden will remain an exclusive reseller of the cybersecurity firm's products.

St. Louis City has spent just 2% of available American Relief Plan Act, or ARPA, funds. In August 2021, the Board of Aldermen passed a bill appropriating around $135 million dollars of federal pandemic relief. The money came to the city as part of ARPA. This is just the first slice of relief funds, with the city set to receive a total of $498 million. Since Board Bill 2 was passed last year, the city has spent just $3.4 million of the available money. That is only about 2% of the money the Board…

The American economy boomed in 2021, and job growth followed suit. But it still wasn't enough to get employment back to pre-pandemic levels. Nonfarm employment rose 4.4% between December 2020 and December 2021, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That represents an increase of nearly 6.3 million jobs. Missouri ranked 33rd among all states and the District of Columbia, with a 2.77% increase in employment during the period. Illinois experienced 4.66% job growth, ranking…

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Wednesday utilized a new power to appoint an interim director of personnel, a move that comes as her administration looks to restart a search for a police chief.

This weekend's Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium isn't an end point. “E. Stanley Kroenke’s vision was to create a sports and entertainment destination in the heart of the entertainment capital of the world,” said Jason Gannon, managing director of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park in suburban Los Angeles.

The University of Missouri-St. Louis could host on its campus the recreation facility that's at the heart of a dispute over funding for an expansion of the downtown St. Louis convention center. A spokesman for the university said Tuesday that "leadership" in St. Louis County requested that UMSL study "the feasibility of being the site for a proposed Track and Field Complex in north St. Louis County." "In response, UMSL enlisted its Master Plan firm Lamar Johnson Collaborative to review the options,"…

A backlog of deals from the pandemic lockdown in 2020 and expected tax changes by the new Congress drove activity, said the managing director of an advisory firm.

Sports analytics firm Rapsodo has developed hardware technology used by all 30 Major League Baseball teams and hundreds of its players. It now is putting a focus on its software capabilities, with plans to strengthen how athletes use its systems.

The property's owner said market conditions favor a sale. Litigation involving the property is also pending.

The St. Louis area will be the home of a new area code later this year, the 557 area code. The existing 314 area code is currently used for St. Louis, Overland, Bridgeton, Florissant, Webster Groves, Creve Coeur, Kirkwood and other nearby jurisdictions, but the number of new 314 numbers that can be issued is running low. According to the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, the last of the 314 phone numbers will be exhausted by the third quarter of 2022. Because of the short supply, the…

In handing down the ruling, the state Supreme Court cited the couple's guilty pleas to misdemeanors related to a 2020 incident.

Benson Hill's current CFO will retire from her post, but remain on the company's board.

The nonprofit Creve Coeur plant science institution has founded a wholly owned corporation that will focus on helping its scientists commercialize their research and technology.

Faultless was founded in 1896 as a home laundry business that delivered bundles of fresh, clean laundry by horse and buggy. Now, the 125-year-old name is being retired.