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A local entrepreneur is opening the St. Louis region's first franchised location of a spray tanning business.

The layoffs affected about half a dozen staffers, according to people familiar with the matter.

Proponents would still need to gather signatures from neighbors before opening. And they'd need to get a permit from the city after submitting an operations plan.

Once a story of American failure, Detroit is in the midst of a turnaround story orchestrated by a civic-minded billionaire and a mayor who vowed to change the city's politics. The Business Journal sought out St. Louis' billionaires to learn whether they'd be willing to fill a similar role, while some private sector leaders caution that this city can't wait for a savior.

Israel-based public company Israel Chemicals Ltd. has revised its plans for a battery materials plant in St. Louis, relocating the project to a location in North City.

The Transportation Security Administration is predicting the busiest Thanksgiving travel week on record. TSA said Tuesday it projects it'll screen 18.3 million people in U.S. airports between Tuesday, Nov. 26 to Monday, Dec. 2, which would be a 6% jump from this time last year. When will be the busiest travel days for Thanksgiving? The federal agency expects the three busiest Thanksgiving air travel days will be Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Sunday after. TSA also projects…

St. Louis agriculture technology firm Elemental Enzymes, which develops products to aid crop growth, plans to expand its presence in St. Louis with a new manufacturing facility.

The venture capital arm of the St. Louis-based industrial technology and software company has invested in the seed funding round of a Canadian software business.

A sports bar located just north of Saint Louis University's Midtown campus has closed.

MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in St. Clair County, Illinois, is getting a new nonstop flight.

The supporters group for St. Louis City SC said a local company has filed a trademark claim on its name, but that the company is actually working for another, undisclosed entity.

A woman who said her daughter got an E. coli infection after eating at a catered event for the Rockwood School District is suing the company that catered the event. In a lawsuit filed Monday, Jennifer Cumbus alleges that her daughter ate at an event catered by Andre's Banquets and Catering on Nov. 8, and started showing symptoms of an E. coli infection two days later. In the days since, Cumbus said her daughter has not been able to keep food down and has lost 7 pounds. On Monday, the St. Louis…

A 20-unit townhouse development is planned for the city’s Soulard neighborhood.

The St. Louis Preservation Board Monday rejected Washington University Medical Center’s request to demolish a vacant, former nursing home in the Central West End.

Cherokee Street venue The Fortune Teller Bar is closing at the end of the year.

A trust tied to the Hoffmann Family of Companies has again upped its stake in St. Louis Post-Dispatch parent Lee Enterprises.

Panera Brands Inc., the St. Louis-based parent company of Panera Bread and several other restaurant chains, said it has named a new chairman and a new board member "to bolster its restaurant industry experience as the company prepares for its next phase of growth."

Energizer Holdings has completed the move of its office to Clayton, cutting its space in half from its prior headquarters while moving to the premier office market in the St. Louis region.

Greater St. Louis Inc. CEO Jason Hall on Monday told the city's legislative leader it would be "reckless" to allow its economic engine – downtown – to "fall further into disrepair and neglect."

A late report adding nearly 10,000 votes to Christian County’s election results has narrowed the margin for Missouri’s sports betting amendment and put it in range for a possible recount. The official results from Christian County, certified last week, increased the county’s vote total on Amendment 2 by 9,653, with a margin of 3,995 votes against sports betting among the additional ballots. Added to the statewide tally maintained by the Secretary of State’s office, just that change would…