From St. Louis Public Radio: Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation soon plans to turn Cahokia Heights properties where derelict homes were once boarded up into a new low-income housing development called Vivian’s Village. SIHF Healthcare purchased the properties at 5708, 5710 and 5712 Bond Avenue for Vivian’s Village in 2020 and 2023, according to St. Clair […]
Tarlton, St. Louis’ largest women-owned general contracting and construction management firm, expands its business development team with the hiring of Allie Terbrock as business development manager and promotion of Tim McCoy to director of strategy. McCoy, a certified public accountant in the State of Missouri, crafts Tarlton’s business development plans and provides leadership in all […]
From Construction Business Owner: If you believe the statistics — and a whole slew of press — Generation Z is an emerging generation of men and women who are trading in their schoolbooks and strapping on tool belts. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, the number of students who enrolled in vocational-focused community colleges rose […]
From Leader Publications: House Springs Elementary School has a new playground. Students love it, Principal Angie Ritzel said. “Our students think our new playground is amazing,” she said. “When I asked some of the kids how they liked the new playground, they said things like, ‘We love it; the new slide is perfect; the soft […]
From News Channel 20: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) state officials gathered Wednesday morning to celebrate a significant construction milestone. A “final pour” ceremony marked the last structural concrete pour on the new $105 million health science building at the SIUE campus. During the event, attendees toured the 176,000 square foot building that will accommodate […]
From RiverBender: Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) presented a $500,000 check for the Parsons Place Preservation Project on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. The funding is intended for Urban Strategies, Inc. to renovate the Parsons Place mixed-income apartment complex, aiming to catalyze future economic development and stabilize housing in East St. Louis. Budzinski secured the funding through […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Plans for a roughly $232 million Downtown West mixed-use development moved forward Tuesday after the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority Board voted to approve the remaining $171 million in bonds for the project and a construction sales tax exemption. The development by AHM Group aims to transform 12 acres of […]
The American Subcontractors Association (ASA)-Midwest Council recently elected its officers and board of directors for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Pictured (left to right) Matt Tucker, Affton Fabricating & Welding; Dennis Voss, Golterman & Sabo; Ryan Spell, Precision Analysis; Mark O’Donnell, Schmersahl Treloar & Co.; Scott Meyer, Meyer Painting Co. Mr. Ryan Spell, Precision Analysis, Inc., […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Dierbergs Markets, the Chesterfield-based grocery chain, wants to add a store at the $211 million Market at Olive retail development in University City after abandoning a similar plan last year. The company is re-entering the planning process for a new store at the site, Jamie Collins, a spokesperson for the […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Katie Rhoades is doing something she wouldn’t have predicted a few years ago. The founder and executive director of Healing Action Network, Rhoades is hiring a “housing navigator” to help place her clients in affordable apartments. Her nonprofit was founded to help victims of sex trafficking, but the organization looks increasingly […]
From Construction Business Owner: So, you’ve done the research and constructed an airtight management plan for your next construction project. Now it’s time to put pencil to paper and start fleshing out the details. How will you move and deploy your workforce, equipment and materials to get the job done? Taking the time to think […]
From Leader Publications: Construction is moving along well at the Windsor C-1 School District’s intermediate and high schools, thanks to generally good weather, Superintendent Jason King said. Brockmiller Construction in Farmington is building an addition at each school and is completing renovations at the high school. Altogether those projects will cost an estimated $11.8 million, […]
From Construction Dive: A joint venture of St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. and Tyrone, Georgia-based Barnsley Construction Group topped out the only government facility in Georgia constructed using mass timber as the primary building material, McCarthy announced in an Oct. 14 news release. The budget for the 58,250-square-foot City Centre project is $78 million, according to […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Keystone Construction, the contractor hired to build the planned $60 million CarShield Sportsplex in Chesterfield, will break ground on the project Wednesday. The company said it would host a groundbreaking at 3 p.m. Wednesday for the 325,000-square-foot hockey and soccer facility at 530 N. Eatherton Road. CarShield Sportsplex will accommodate […]
IMPACT Strategies, Inc. has begun renovation of the new Averhealth Laboratory in Hazelwood, MO at 601 Lambert Point Drive located off Lindbergh between Hwy 270 & Hwy 70. St. Louis is home to Averhealth’s national comprehensive laboratory facility operated by PHD- and Masters-Level toxicologists serving its many collection facilities across the nation. As the construction […]
Grant St. George, a 17-year veteran of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., has been promoted to the position of Vice President Operations in the company’s Industrial group. Based in St. Louis, he now leads field operations for McCarthy’s industrial team, which specializes in delivering a broad range of complex industrial projects within the manufacturing, power and […]
In the early 1900s, an emerging electrical infrastructure in St. Louis created a market for small plug-in appliances and a need to repair them. Thus began Kaemmerlen Electric Co., which was founded in 1924, and would become the largest small appliance repair shop in St. Louis – fixing 50,000 plug-in clocks, toasters and radios annually. […]
The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors® (SIOR) inducted Scott Savacool, SIOR, senior vice president at Colliers in St. Louis, MO, to serve a two-year term on the SIOR Board of Directors as treasurer. He assumed the position during SIOR’s Fall 2024 conference in Los Angeles, CA. Savacool, an office specialist, has been a member […]
by Dr. John Gaal Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum carries the Worker Wellness & Well-Being Blog as a regular feature. The […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Decades ago, the airport bought out and razed a thriving community here, making way for an expansion and creating a noise buffer between runways and residents. Thousands of people were displaced, and empty streets were left to decay. Now, St. Louis Lambert International Airport is looking to redevelop a large swath […]
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