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The Missouri Foundation for Health was not only concerned about its own space when it planned a new St. Louis headquarters, but the organization also had a vision to bolster whatever neighborhood it settled in.

In 2020, Living The Word purchased the former Wild Country country-western line dancing bar and night club on Gateway Drive in Collinsville, Illinois, with its eye toward a state-of-the-art worship facility.

The executive led Centene from a $40 million company in 1996 to the nation's leading provider of managed care service, with $125 billion in revenue and a place among the Fortune 50.

Cliff View branch, a part of the St. Charles-City County Library district, opened its doors in May after a $2.6 million renovation. The branch now occupies a space that previously housed Six North Cafe.

The iconic Tony's Restaurant and Anthony's Bar, which opened its doors in downtown St. Louis in 1946, moved to its new digs in Clayton in May 2021. The restaurant gained a reputation as one of St. Louis' best, and won numerous Michelin and Mobil awards.

The project was done in conjunction with Cardinals Care and the St. Louis Cardinals Community Fund and cost $1.2 million. The Cardinals' charitable arm provided $1.1 million of that total for the project, which was completed in February 2021.

St. Louis-based craft brewery Rockwell Beer Co. opened Rockwell Beer Garden in Francis Park in October 2021 after a $750,000 renovation.

A $134 million, 35-story luxury apartment tower proposed near Forest Park in the Central West End will require a series of variances and approvals from the city of St. Louis in order to be built.

CRG, the real estate development group of Clayco, developed NorthPark Distribution Center I, a 537,753-square-foot speculative distribution warehouse, inside the NorthPark business park located just east of St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

Fenton Logistics Park, the former site of the Chrysler plant that closed its doors in 2009, was completed in 2021 and is now home to numerous new tenants, including Wally's, 1st Phorm, Killark Electric and BASF, among others.

Nominations for the awards programs, both of which will celebrate the region’s top startups and innovators, are being accepted until May 20.

A mixed-use development with an apartment complex, a hotel, two new restaurants, an event space and a gym took advantage of the fast growth in St. Charles County, even during a pandemic.

The building’s unique footprint, in the shape of an “E,” played an important role in rehabbing the building into apartments, since the design allowed each apartment to get natural light.

The apartments and retail have both been fully leased since the project opened in April 2021.

Green Street switched gears to focus more on its own office space, which it needed more of after a series of acquisitions of other companies.

Nonprofit startup funder Arch Grants didn’t have to go very far to find its next leader. Arch Grants said Thursday it is promoting from within to fill the role of executive director.

Nominations for the St. Louis Business Journal's annual Corporate Counsel Awards, which recognize the best and brightest legal minds in the corporate landscape, are due next Friday, April 15.

Cars pull up to the Starbucks on Hampton Avenue on Monday, but workers are doing more than filling orders, they're organizing. "This is about fulfilling our partnership with Starbucks and providing a guarantee for the longevity of our careers here," shift supervisor Riley Staack said. Staack's father was in a firefighter union for about 25 years, so she said she was aware of the benefits when she saw other Starbucks locations move to organize. "In Buffalo, in Seattle, and Arizona," she said listing…

A Creve Coeur-based global packaging company has agreed to acquire one of North America's biggest flexible packaging distributors.

St. Louis County Eoxecutive Dr. Sam Page is quitting his other job. A spokesperson confirms he'll resign his position with Western Anesthesiology Associates. This comes one day after 61% of voters passed Proposition B, which bans the county executive from having an outside job. The news came just moments after Page delivered his "State of the County" address Wednesday. He made no mention he was leaving his anesthesiology job. Instead, he focused on things like Covid, saying he's cautiously optimistic…