As the sun rose on the Autumn Equinox Saturday (Sept. 23), McCarthy crews had already been onsite for hours at new BJC Kingshighway South patient tower. They were making final preparations to move a 181-foot-long, 91-ton pedestrian bridge into place. Barnes-Jewish Plaza had been shut down and the Budrovich-provided crane had been set up on […]
From KSDK:Â A village of tiny homes that provide temporary living space for the homeless in St. Louis has expanded. The City announced the expansion this week using $1.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to double the number of Tiny Homes Transitional Housing at Jefferson Spaces near Downtown St. Louis. Brenda Coffman, a […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â A big-box store in St. Louis County is being torn down after sitting vacant for nearly six years. Demolition of the former Kmart at 3901 Lemay Ferry Road in south St. Louis County began Wednesday. The store, which anchored the South County Plaza shopping center near the intersection of Lemay […]
From St. Louis Public Radio:Â The first phase of a $20 million redevelopment of a long-vacant shopping plaza into a community economic hub opened Thursday. The new R&R Marketplace is meant to empower the north St. Louis County regional community and meet their economic development needs, said Beverly Jenkins, president and CEO of the nonprofit […]
From Business Facilities: When thinking about corporate headquarters locations there are several factors that can make or break a location. A company’s corporate headquarters is its home. It is a place where employees congregate handle and create business strategies on a regional, national, or international basis. Since main day-to-day operations are typically handled in corporate […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: The fate of two buildings along the Mill Creek Valley footprint — the historic, predominantly Black neighborhood that was razed in 1959 to make way for “urban renewal” in downtown St. Louis — has sparked calls for protest this week after St. Louis University submitted a proposal for demolition to […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: by Chris Schmidt, partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and board member of Great Rivers Greenway Foundation The simple genius of the Brickline Greenway is that it will connect St. Louis’ crown jewels – Forest Park, Tower Grove Park, the Gateway Arch National Park and Fairground Park – with more […]
From Rejournals: These are challenging times in the commercial real estate industry, with high interest rates slowing both the sales of existing commercial properties and the development of new ones. That doesn’t mean, though, that all asset classes are struggling equally. One of the more successful commercial asset types today? Mixed-use developments that combine multifamily, […]
From Call Newspapers:Â After listening to a presentation detailing the design concept for the proposed Whitecliff Park Quarry restroom at its Aug. 22 meeting, the Crestwood Board of Aldermen approved a resolution authorizing staff to apply for a grant with the Municipal Parks Grant Commission. If awarded, this grant could fund up to $465,000 of […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: One of Weekends Only’s former St. Louis retail properties has sold for nearly $10 million and will be converted into a mixed-use redevelopment with multiple tenants. The 9.47-acre site and building that housed the former South County location of Weekends Only, the St. Louis-based furniture retailer that closed all its […]
Central School District #104 held a groundbreaking ceremony on September 14, 2023, to kick off the additions and renovations project at their Joseph Arthur Middle School. Poettker Construction is serving as the construction manager and Cordogan Clark the designer for 26,900 square feet of building expansions and 10,900 square feet of light renovations to the […]
The venerable Nu Way Companies is set to produce 15,000 tons of reinforcing steel or rebar annually in its new Troy, Ill. fabrication facility. Contegra Construction completed the 35,000-square-foot fabrication facility for the 68-year-old, family-owned business – one of the largest construction material and equipment suppliers in Metro St. Louis. The state-of-the-art facility quadruples Nu […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is calling on regional leaders to expand their efforts to help people experiencing homelessness. Jones said the city is shouldering much of the burden to provide temporary housing to people from across the region. She said the city’s investment in a tiny home village in […]
From Call Newspapers: According to the agenda for the St. County Planning Commission’s Sept. 18 meeting, the restaurant is proposing a new location at 6303 S. Lindbergh Blvd., at the corner of Lindbergh and Concord Road. Real Estate Partners X, LLC is requesting amended C-8 zoning for all C-3 Shopping District permitted uses, including a […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â The U.S. construction market is starting to shift in the wake of less work from the private sector and ramped-up spending in industries like infrastructure and manufacturing, bolstered by federal incentives. And while supply-chain issues and higher materials prices have normalized since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation, higher […]
From Construction Dive: Technology has definitely played a role in preconstruction’s increased prominence in the overall build process today. But many experts see behavioral and process swings spurred by the pandemic at the root of systemic change for the industry. “Of course I wish there was a tool that can get us all to where […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: As temperatures start to cool in September, it might be easy to forget the scorching heat of just a month before. In middle to late August, parts of the Midwest experienced a streak of “feels like” temperatures of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In one 48-hour period, the Centers Disease […]
From FOX: For businesses looking to establish or expand their footprint in the Midwest, the St. Louis region might be an intriguing location for opportunity. REBusiness Online, a commercial real estate news network, highlights St. Louis in a new report and deems it an “attractive” industrial market for national and regional developers. The report comes […]
From RiverBender: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Engineering (SOE) celebrated a classroom dedication recognizing the founding chair of the Department of Construction Luke Snell, PE. Snell, a leading lecturer and specialist on concrete, contributed $100,000 to the Department of Construction in the SOE. The dedication ceremony and unveiling took place Wednesday, Sept. 13 in […]
From Construction Dive: The world’s climate is changing more quickly than building codes are being updated, putting lives and structures at risk, according to panelists at the Building Innovation 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., last week. In fact, only about a third of the U.S. is covered by disaster-resistant codes, according to panelist Daniel Bass, […]
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