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Dierbergs Markets and McBride Homes closed Wednesday on the purchase of the former Crestwood Plaza mall site in south St. Louis County.

“St. Louis has created an immense amount of opportunity to make a living, grow a business and play with all kinds of side projects and ideas, and do it in a place that has a modest cost of living, great old buildings and people who are willing to help and want to see each other succeed,” said Chris Ryan, owner and director of Once Films.

The official is no longer executive director of Metro Transit, and the organization is searching for her successor.

St. Charles County reported strong building activity last year, led by growth in the residential sector. It counted 1,723 single-family building permits in 2021, off from 1,778 in 2020 but still elevated from pre-pandemic figures. Multifamily permits set a record, at 1,202, up from 1,173 in 2020, the county government said. Together, the residential permits were worth $658 million in 2021, flat from 2020 but up from $556 million in 2019. The county's director of community development, Mike…

The Missouri Historical Society said Wednesday that it will reopen its three St. Louis locations in early February as planned.

The aerospace and defense company, however, is having success ramping up its production of the 737 Max, getting closer to its goal of building 31 a month by early this year.

In 2021, St. Louis startups Benson Hill and Nerdy went public in a pair of deals that valued each company at more than $1 billion, making each a so-called "unicorn." However, in the months since Nerdy and Benson Hill began trading publicly, their share prices have dropped dramatically and shaved hundreds of millions off of each company’s market capitalization.

The building has kept its name following the sale, and the bank said it would sign a long-term lease with the owners of the office tower and keep its space there.

It's been two years since Dogtown was filled with St. Patrick's Day revelers, but this spring on March 17, organizers hope the streets will go green once again. "We're back. The parade's back. The Dogtown festival is back," Jim Mohar, the parade's publicity chairman, said. The parade is run by the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Mohar said they've been working with City Hall and their local board of aldermen representative to make sure things are good to go, and the numbers are looking better and…

The number of Covid-positive patients in St. Louis-area hospitals is starting to decline from the record-high numbers of the Omicron variant, but hospital leaders said their staff is still stretched thin. "We're finally starting to see some good progress in our fight against Omicron," Dr. Alex Garza of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force said in a briefing Tuesday. "Our hospitalization totals continue to bounce around a little bit, but in general, they're trending down. And that's really…

The newest winners of Purina’s annual innovation initiative include early stage companies that have developed an array of technologies and products, ranging from plant-based treats to a social network for dogs.

Pizza Champ, which started as a takeout concept at Chris Kelling and Adam Altnether's Elmwood restaurant in Maplewood, is their second establishment.

Nestle said a "reorganization" of its North American operations will result in cuts to its IT office in downtown St. Louis. The company in 2016 moved its IT operations to St. Louis as part of a relocation of its U.S. headquarters.

The St. Louis-area developer plans for develop the Florida site to include around 5.4 million square feet of single and multi-tenant, Class A institutional-quality light industrial and distribution facilities.

Envisioned are a hotel, ground-floor restaurant, multifamily residential and parking structure.

St. Louis leaders now have until March 1 to submit to the feds a plan to restart operations of the Delmar Loop Trolley streetcar line, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said Tuesday.

Environmental Operations, the Stacy Hastie-owned environmental firm ranked as St. Louis' biggest by local revenue, has moved from the city of St. Louis, according to a notice it distributed.

The year 2021 was a wild one for the St. Louis industrial real estate market, and forecasts for 2022 show few signs of it easing. “We have record levels of different metrics at play,” said David Branding, a managing director in JLL’s St. Louis office. "We're at a record low level of vacancy right now, near record-high levels of construction and high levels of leasing." Industrial vacancy in St. Louis is at an all-time low of 3.3%, he said. Supply is so tight, in some cases, prospective tenants…

The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners has named Kenneth Gregory as the department’s chief of police – bypassing a selection process that has been customary within the department throughout its history. “Over the past six months, the board has engaged in extensive discussions concerning our process for selecting and criteria for the next chief,” according to an email sent department-wide on behalf of the civilian board about the announcement. “Through our discussions, we addressed…

The company claims in a lawsuit that it updated payroll systems during the pandemic to better account for when work was done in the city vs. outside city limits. Yet it still ended up paying a six-figure delinquent tax bill. Now it wants the money back.