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The Jewish Federation of St. Louis plans to spin off the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, slated to open this fall, as a separate nonprofit organization.

The average hotel occupancy rate reached 68% in June, the highest its been since October 2019. Here's what's driving the recovery.

In a recent article I wrote for the St. Louis Business Journal called How St. Louis Became America’s Comeback City, I started with the premise of, what if this became a reality? And if so, what would a solution or effort to help create such a reality look like? Without going into details of this solution, I wrote how, to be that effective, it would have to look and feel very different than anything we’ve done before. It would have to be bold, ambitious and innovative. It would have to be newsworthy.…

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said the modified offer from the aerospace giant resulted from a Friday bargaining session that lasted from about 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.

Clayton officials are considering next steps after health care giant Centene (NYSE: CNC) officially terminated the remainder of its deal to expand its headquarters in the city, foregoing future tax breaks that required the construction of a public auditorium.

Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. prides itself on being the official provider of gloves to Major League Baseball. The Town & Country-based manufacturer of sports equipment is now using its baseball gloves to expand into a new type of product: non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.

One of the St. Louis region's largest health care systems named a Baltimore health care executive as the next president of one of its St. Charles County hospitals.

The startup, Chesterfield-based Micron Pure, says it's currently renovating a 25,00-square-foot facility in Fenton that offers it research and development capabilities to rapidly design and test new technologies to expand its product portfolio.

If a dispute over retirement benefits isn't resolved, nearly 2,500 union workers at the aerospace giant's St. Louis operations could go on strike as soon as Monday. Here's what's at the root of the issue.

Flash flooding overwhelmed Black Creek and Deer Creek in Brentwood for the second time this week. The mayor of Brentwood, David Dimmitt, said the area near Hanley Industrial Court can be quickly overwhelmed by flash flooding. Brandon Butler was at a CrossFit gym on Hanley Industrial when the water came rushing in. “This whole thing was like a river honestly, like you could swim through it,” Butler said. Butler said he was only at CrossFit St. Louis for a few minutes before the flooding happened. “I…

Metro Transit said the historic rainfall and flooding earlier this week also caused unprecedented damage to their systems. In a press release, Metro estimated the damage between $18 million and $20 million. More than half of that damage was to one MetroLink train, which was valued at $10 million and was expected to be a total loss. “We have never seen flash flooding to these extreme levels on the 46-mile MetroLink system since it opened in 1993,” Bi-State Development President and CEO Taulby…

St. Louis startup Rezilient Health recently reached a key milestone in its evolution into a primary care provider, opening its first and flagship “CloudClinic” in downtown Clayton, at 7923 Forsyth Blvd.

In some ways, we are much more vulnerable than we know.

The city of Chesterfield will convene a Tax Increment Financing Commission to examine tax incentives for public infrastructure, paving the way for a series of massive projects that would remake the city with $2.5 billion in development.

U.S. Bancorp was hit with a $37.5 million fine by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which claimed the Minneapolis-based bank opened phony accounts for customers to meet sales goals. The allegations are similar to those leveled against Wells Fargo in 2016.

U.S. News’ Best Hospitals Honor Roll, released Tuesday, ranks the top 20 hospitals nationwide that excel across most or all types of care evaluated by the publication. See which St. Louis-area facilities made the list.

St. Louis Inno on Tuesday hosted its Fire Awards and Startup Exit Awards, recognizing more than two dozen startups and innovators that notched major milestones in the past year. The event marked the inaugural celebration of St. Louis Inno’s Fire Awards and the fourth year of honoring companies and entrepreneurs through the Startup Exit Awards.

“He is both an exceptional banker and a dedicated community partner,” Roger Gott, chairman and president of Town & Country Bank, said in a statement of the newly hired JeffCo market president.

Time is running out to submit your nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's annual 40 Under 40 Awards program, which celebrates young professionals in the St. Louis region. The deadline to submit a nomination is next Friday, Aug. 5. Click the link here to submit yours before it's too late. In November, the Business Journal will introduce a new class of 40 young professionals who are making a difference in the St. Louis business community. To be eligible for the 2022 program, a candidate…

There’s times when I wonder whether I’m qualified to write about entrepreneurship. I’ve never owned a business or worked for a startup. Heck, I didn’t even take a business class in college. As I wrote the profiles for St. Louis Inno’s Fire Awards and Startup Exit Awards, I began to do some reflection and I came to this conclusion: I’ve learned more about entrepreneurship over the years than I’ve realized. That’s because, growing up, there was a time when my parents supported…