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The company that owns Tesla Inc.’s newly opened St. Louis service center has sold it for more than $11 million.

New renovations are coming to University City's municipal court building and police department in what city leaders call the "largest capital project to date."

An acclaimed local chef once again didn't advance to the winner's circle in the James Beard Foundation Awards.

The company will not entertain acquisition offers with transaction values under $5 million, its chief executive said.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Downtown Bike Unit will relocate its operations, opening a new location officials say will improve the unit’s visibility in efforts to curb downtown crime.

Five owners of some 38 MassageLuxe franchise locations complain that the St. Louis massage chain is wrongly seeking to cancel their development agreements.

Missouri will enter the new fiscal year July 1 with a near-record cash surplus as state spending falls short of budgeted amounts and revenues meet expectations. Meeting revenue expectations won’t, however, be enough to trigger an income tax cut dependent on revenue growth, said Jim Moody, a former state budget director. “My view is, best case, they end up probably around the last year’s revenues, which would not trigger it,” said Moody, who is also a retired lobbyist who advised clients…

The Church of Scientology of St. Louis is seeking to sell a 60,000-square-foot building being marketed as “one of the few remaining development opportunities” in the city’s Lafayette Square neighborhood.

A Chicago-based design-build and construction firm with big operations in St. Louis has hired a new chief information officer.

Ameren Missouri has filed an application with the Missouri Public Service Commission to build a planned 800 megawatt natural-gas-powered backup electric plant, with a bigger investment and later construction start than previously announced.

Centene was among eight companies filing a protest claiming the state improperly gave their bids to Aetna, a subsidiary of CVS Health, handing it an edge during the procurement process

“I just got tired of looking at empty conference rooms and empty desks,” the firm's CEO said.

CBD Kratom employees have become the first Missouri workers in the industry to unionize, following a Friday election. The election spanned across 17 stores in eastern Missouri and Illinois operated by the St. Louis-based CBD Kratom, which sells largely kratom and hemp-derived THC products. Employees voted 23 to 6 to unionize, with 75% of the eligible employees participating. “I’m so excited and so proud of everyone,” said Taylor Moore, sales associate. “I’m encouraged to know that our…

An eatery in Maplewood known as "the bar with the swings" is closing permanently.

The contestants participating in an international housing design competition, to be held next year in downtown St. Louis, gave each other the first glimpses Thursday of their affordable, energy-efficient housing designs that will be built and displayed on site.

There is still time to make your nomination for the 2024 Champions for Diversity & Inclusion Awards program. The nomination deadline has been extended to Thursday, June 13. The program, which includes awards for an individual, a for-profit and a nonprofit, celebrates those who have shown exceptional commitment to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace or in the St. Louis community. You can submit a nomination here. The winners will be announced in July and profiled in a special…

A seafood fast-casual restaurant chain plans to expand in the St. Louis area over the next several years.

A California-based real estate investment trust has acquired an office building in St. Charles occupied by several Mercy clinical offices.

A subsidiary of Centene Corp. has moved its St. Louis-area pharmacy company out of a building owned by a Wildwood man who is battling the companies in court over the management of that business.

The St. Louis Blues will continue to lease and use a Maryland Heights ice arena as the team’s practice facility after the city’s decision Thursday to end the troubled rink’s management by a Blues-affiliated nonprofit organization.