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From Next STL: This year Great Rivers Greenway is celebrating a quarter-century of building greenways in the St. Louis region. The organization’s funding, born out of a public vote in November 2000, started GRG down the path to creating the 140 miles of trails, thousands of acres of public space, and 3 million yearly trail […]

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Tickets are now on sale for the upcoming 2025 Pickleball Tournament benefiting St. Louis Children’s Hospital as part of the annual KIDstruction campaign. The friendly competition will be held Thursday, Sept. 25, at Chicken N Pickle, 1500 S. Main St., St. Charles, MO. Doors open at 2:30 p.m., and play begins at 3PM. The pickleball […]

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From KSDK: Every new data center in St. Louis will have to meet new requirements before construction begins, following Mayor Cara Spencer’s announcement that she will be signing an executive order focused on the developments on Friday. Spencer’s new order will require data centers to hold public hearings and obtain a conditional use permit, or […]

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Mayor Cara Spencer is joined Gov. Mike Kehoe Thursday (Sept. 18th) in announcing that FEMA has approved additional assistance to support clearing debris from private properties in St. Louis following the May 16 tornado. For this mission, FEMA will provide an initial lump sum, in addition to the $100 million that the Missouri General Assembly […]

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From Hoodline: Residents of North St. Louis have a renewed source of support in the wake of a tornado’s rampage that forced the closure of an important facility at Sumner High School. The Northside Economic Empowerment Center (NEEC) has now officially reopened its doors, restoring a vital pillar of community strength. This revival took place […]

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Off a quiet gravel road in Jefferson County sits a new mining facility that will use massive amounts of electricity to operate. It awaits one final step of governmental approval before it can begin working to earn digital cryptocurrency. “It’s ready to have the key turned on. It’s just sitting there,” […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: There’s a new plan for the Boy Scouts headquarters in the Central West End, after another firm dropped its project at the site earlier this year. Garrison Cos., a Mission Woods, Kansas-based developer, is pursuing a $51 million, four-story development at 4568 W. Pine St. The building, named Pinehouse, is […]

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From KSDK: The development arm of a local church believes they’ve found the secret to bringing people back to blighted communities by centering their approach around faith. At Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, they love celebrating success in the City of Champions. “There are good things happening in East St. Louis,” Dennis Jackson Sr. said. […]

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From Leader Publications: County Executive Dennis Gannon released his office’s list of priority capital improvement projects for the next five years, 2026-2030, including some big-ticket items like a new athletic center and, potentially, a new county courthouse. The Jefferson County Council narrowly approved the Jefferson County Capital Program and Strategic Plan by a 4-3 vote […]

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From Bob Clark Beyond: Every once in a while, a book comes across your desk. It’s mentioned in a quiet conversation with someone you respect. And it makes you stop and look at the world a little differently. Engineering in Plain Sight by Grady Hillhouse is one of those books. Infrastructure, Made Simple This illustrated […]

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Plaza West Tower, the new 16-story patient care tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, will welcome patients beginning in October. The tower will provide private rooms for heart and vascular patients, advanced imaging, and the latest in surgical preparation and recovery. Plaza West Tower is designed to enhance the experience for patients and their families under the […]

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Coharbor Russell Group LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Business, and Oculus Inc. are proud to announce they have been awarded the contract for the construction of a new 14,000 square foot Department of Veterans Affairs North Grand Boulevard Dermatology and Endocrinology Clinic in St. Louis, Missouri. The project, set to break ground this fall, is […]

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From Webster-Kirkwood Times: It was in December of 2024 that Jim Onder of Webster Groves-based OnderLaw announced his purchase of the Ozark Theatre, along with the neighboring property occupied by the Webster Garden Cafe. Onder said he planned a complete restoration of the theater’s interior, an expensive endeavor that would have involved replacing the electrical, […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: There’s a question often posed to LaTasha Smith about her business, Intertwine Wine Bar: “Why’d you put this here?” The “here” in this case is Dutchtown, the south St. Louis neighborhood she and her husband, Chip, have called home since 2017. They opened the wine bar in 2024 at 4710 […]

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From Construction Dive: Schneider Electric and Compass Datacenters will collaborate on a jointly engineered, prefabricated solution for data center “white space” that combines power, cooling and IT networking equipment in a modular unit, the companies said Sept. 9. The Schneider/Compass announcement comes less than a week after Schneider announced an agreement with AVAIO Digital Partners […]

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From Leader Publications: The St. John’s Lutheran church and school is finalizing plans to create more space for students and connect its buildings at 3517 Jeffco Blvd. in Arnold. St. John’s currently is holding a ministry expansion campaign called “Building for Eternity” to fund an $8.9 million project to build an Early Childhood Center, renovate […]

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From Belleville News-Democrat: A $50 million expansion project for a surgery center and medical office building at the St. Elizabeth’s Hospital O’Fallon medical campus will now include an additional $66 million investment for clinical expansion and infrastructure updates, hospital officials announced Monday. Hospital Sisters Health System President and CEO Chris Klay and Chief Operating Officer […]

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From West Newsmagazine: Whalen Custom Homes is proposing another development in Wildwood, called the West Mill Subdivision. For this project, Michael Whalen, president of the developer, is proposing 17 detached, single-family homes on the south side of New College Avenue, west of West Avenue. To do this, a change in zoning is required for three […]

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From EL PAÍS: The summer has been a cold one for the labor market in the United States. Not only were just 22,000 new net jobs added in August, but for the first time since December 2020, jobs were lost in June. The onset of the winter of employment had been a reality for some […]

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A towering new presence has arrived at one of St. Louis’ busiest intersections. Over the weekend, a construction crane rose above the corner of Kingshighway and Lindell, marking a major milestone for the Albion West End, a $145 million residential high-rise now underway. The extremely tight site made for a very “interesting” piece of choreography […]

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