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Centene expects to reduce over half of its domestic leased real estate footprint, said Andrew Asher, the corporation's executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Founded in 2021, Gravy has created a mobile app with features meant to help prepare renters to purchase their first homes. Through the app, users can open a FDIC-insured savings account to save for a down payment, complete home buying education courses and participate in a rewards program.

He will succeed Arnold Donald, who took the helm in June 2013.

A St. Louis builder plans to become part of the multiphase Freight House Development District in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District.

It's bringing on an executive with more than 15 years of experience in the real estate industry as national director of multifamily development, with plans to work on ground-up apartment complex projects in Missouri and across the nation.

Chicken N Pickle, a pickleball-focused dining and entertainment complex, announced it has adopted a new design plan that will first be implemented at the St. Charles location.

A miniature golf facility proposed on the Delmar Loop is moving ahead.

Elon Musk's tender offer — which has stoked both delight and derision — has now been accepted.

The mayor, in an interview, spoke about spending federal and NFL money, a depressed downtown, public subsidies, transit and merger efforts. She also asked the business community to help her transform blighted areas. "If we don't invest in north St. Louis now, we will continue to pay for it for generations to come."

The report — called an "Economic Justice Action Plan" — calls for focusing the investment across three broadly defined categories: economic empowerment; equitable and inclusive development; and neighborhood transformation.

The Clayton investment firm, which launched in 2020, has expanded its portfolio with the acquisition a California company.

Steven Pursley has been making ramen locally through a pop-up concept before finding what he calls the "perfect" space for his first brick-and-mortar location. The key? Finding a space that was small enough.

In January, a group of high school students from St. Louis was one 57 teams to win the NASA TechRise Student Challenge. With the victory, the local team could send one of its experiments to space.

Southwest Airlines Co., the busiest carrier at Lambert, is trimming its schedule as the summer travel season approaches. It's the latest example of airlines adjusting their operations as the industry finds its footing in the Covid-19 era.

Norway's wealth fund, which owns more than 2% of Bayer AG (OTCMKTS: BAYRY), said it will vote next week to support top management at the company.

Influencer marketing, SEO and more – here's what marketing experts are focusing on this year and why.

Former professional golfer Brad Smith, now head men's golf coach at Webster University in St. Louis, had an aha moment in 2017 while watching current pro Jason Day's approach to his short game. Smith liked Day's straight-arm technique for chipping and pitching and wanted to replicate it with a training aid. That idea led to a startup, Flyt Golf, and a patent-pending sleeve that's now used by more than 50 PGA Tour players and instructors, including champions such as Justin Rose. “The Flyt Sleeve…

Employees at a sixth St. Louis-area Starbucks location said they are joining the growing list of the coffee chain's stores to file for a union election.

During Bob Clark's turn overseeing the U.S. presence at Expo 2020 Dubai, the USA Pavilion hosted more than 80 international delegations, and nearly every day Clark was meeting with businesspeople who wanted to form connections with U.S. businesses.

Crossbar, a St. Louis-based startup that provides software designed to help youth sports clubs more easily manage their operations, plans to expand its team after raising $750,000 in seed funding.