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The company last fall said it expected to invest around $3 billion in real estate assets this year — predominantly industrial properties — after making $4 billion in investment transactions last year.

St. Louis' legislative leader, Lewis Reed, argues that in the spending of huge sums of federal money, the city must pivot from programs — like direct cash assistance to residents — that are unlikely to change the built environment of impoverished north city. Reed offers other ideas.

The state Senate has been mired in a Republican civil war. But even "normalcy" for the chamber isn’t like an assembly line you can speed up.

The Chicago native and SLU graduate spent two decades in Germany, teaching and studying how plants make medicinal compounds. Now vice president of research at the Danforth Center, she's also planning the future of science literacy initiatives at Academy of Science St. Louis, where she serves as board president.

With the newly created center envisioned as becoming a key component in St. Louis' ongoing effort to bolster its burgeoning geospatial technology sector, officials behind the center say they believe it can play the same role in geotech that the Danforth Center has in elevating St. Louis’ prowess in plant science and agriculture innovation.

Nominations for the St. Louis Business Journal's annual Corporate Counsel Awards, which seek to celebrate the best and brightest legal minds in the corporate landscape, are due Friday, April 22. Submit your nomination here before it's too late. These awards will span all levels of the corporate legal department structure, from in-house generalists and specialists to chief legal officers and general counsels, who work in nonprofit organizations or in public or private companies of any size in any…

The "Frozen Face Off" will be the first time the NHL has made an appearance in Wichita.

"We really believe in the overall Orlando and Central Florida growth story," an official with the St. Louis-based developer said.

Wednesday was 4-20. Every year on that date, marijuana advocates celebrate the plant and push for legalization. Meanwhile, Saint Louis University continues to make strides in producing graduates who are workforce ready. This includes a push to get medical workers to go back to school to learn about cannabis. The focus is on doctors, nurses and even social workers and police. With more patients taking advantage of medical marijuana, SLU wants to make sure professionals are better trained on the use…

The building's Forest Park Southeast-based owner has already partially demolished the building.

The newly opened shop, located in a former downstairs event space, carries a selection of artisanal goods, wines and spirits, beauty products and home goods, as well as Missouri-made specialties.

The plant, which currently has about 1,000 workers, currently has the capacity to annually build over 3 million cylinder heads.

The firm said Ronda Sauget will provide clients with competitive intelligence, strategic planning, contingency preparation, crisis and communications management and market research, among other duties.

A St. Louis nonprofit that serves the 11 counties of the Archdiocese of St. Louis trough its eight federated nonprofit agencies has named a health care executive as its next president.

With construction starting on the Crestwood mall mixed-use development, officials believe the project will spur even more development activity along the busy Watson Road corridor in south St. Louis County.

The Central West End has boomed, but a prominent lot wasn't developed for decades. Its journey into a planned 30-story high-rise involves a prominent family's decades-long quest to complete a legacy in the neighborhood, with roadblocks including a fire, demolition and the area's collapse. Negotiations over public subsidies now loom large.

The San Diego Padres on Tuesday became the first Major League Baseball club to announce a jersey sponsor, and its deal offers similarities to the type of agreement the St. Louis Cardinals said they hope to ink.

Major League Soccer doesn’t kick off in St. Louis until 2023, but some of the team’s biggest fans will have another reason to get pumped next month. St. Louis City SC is inviting those who were first in line to put down a deposit for general reserve season tickets to pick out their seats in person. The soccer club will offer some ticket deposit holders the chance to tour the under-construction and newly named Centene Stadium, on track to be completed late this summer. They’ll then get to…

Mayor Tishaura Jones delivered her first State of the City address two days before the first anniversary of her historic inauguration. She discussed investment plans to transform this city into the vision she once had growing up with roots in north St. Louis. She feels the city's best days are still yet to come. "Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, loving community like I did," Jones said. Jones delivered the address on Tuesday at Harris-Stowe State University, tackling the City's issues,…

A St. Louis-based real estate investment firm is expanding to Colorado, its first market outside the Midwest.