This week’s Forum drone video highlights the reinvigoration of public space near an historic St. Louis Region bridge. On April 14th Great Rivers Greenway celebrated the completion of Chain of Rocks Park, a new 16-acre public park on the Missouri side of the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge on the Mississippi Greenway (also known as […]
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 […]
American Institute of Architects (AIA) President Kimberly Dowdell will be in St. Louis on Friday, May 3rd, for a conversation in advance of Ranken Technical College’s 2024 Architecture Student Showcase. The discussion with Dowdell and the subsequent student showcase are free and open to the public. Doors at Ranken open at 8:00 a.m. with Dowdell’s […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Restauranteur William Porter spent years thinking about how to transform two vacant Cherokee Street lots into a recreational public space for the neighborhood. In 2015, he started heading across the street from his restaurant, Master Pieza, to Cherokee Street and Nebraska Avenue to clean the lots. When the first basketball […]
From Leader Publications: Work is scheduled to begin April 22 on a project to replace a bridge over a tributary of the Joachim Creek on McGehan Road, which connects Hwy. E and Hardin Road south of De Soto. Jefferson County Public Works Director Jason Jonas said the portion of McGehan Road that includes the bridge […]
From REjournals: The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) celebrated its 150th Anniversary in March, commemorating the milestone at its new headquarters in downtown St. Louis’ historic Security Building. The $1.5-million adaptive reuse project was designed by St. Louis-based Lawrence Group Architects with construction management firm Integrate Construction Partners. Located at 319 N. Fourth […]
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: Six years after it was announced, five years after city approval of an area plan, four years after initial groundbreaking, three years after scores of trees were removed along Route DD and after weathering the COVID-19 pandemic with its economic shocks, the Streets of Caledonia mixed-use development is clearly taking shape. […]
From Call Newspapers: Two representatives from Missouri American Water – Brian Eisenloeffel, senior director of operations, and Timothy Southards, engineering manager – gave a presentation on the projects going on in the area at the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen meeting on March 12, including an update on the water tower project Southards began by […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Some construction companies in Missouri and Kansas are illegally misclassifying employees to cut down on payroll costs and avoid millions of dollars of state and federal income taxes, according to a pair of studies from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The research, which received funding from the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council, […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: While a potential MetroLink expansion in St. Louis stirs controversy, work has been quietly underway for more than a year on building a long-sought Metro East extension of the light rail line. Illinois state funds are paying the entire cost of the $98 million, 5.2-mile connection from MetroLink’s current easternmost outpost […]
From KSDK: Powell Hall sits in the heart of the Grand Arts District right across the street from the Fox Theatre in Midtown St. Louis. Renovations are being made to the front entrance, lobby, box office, seats and contractors have decreased the elevation by leveling the slope on the hall’s floor. Currently, the hall has […]
From Lincoln News: Dreary, rainy weather couldn’t damper the enthusiasm at a ribbon cutting ceremony last week commemorating the grand opening of a Missouri Job Center office here in Troy. A collaboration between the Workforce Development Board of North Missouri, Gamm Incorporated, and the Lincoln County Missouri Economic Development Office the center, located at 260 […]
From NPR: Rakeb Tesfaye, a 5-year-old student at the Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center in University City, said she enjoys playing outside because she gets to make friends. “And I get to go like this, and like this,” Tesfaye shared as she imagined herself swinging on monkey bars at a playground. She and her […]
From West Newsmagazine: A final vote was taken on the bid to construct phase one of the Village Green project on the west side of the Wildwood City Hall. Bombshell Construction Services LLC will be paid $1.9 million for phase one, which will include access and utility installations, the performance stage and oval, plus the […]
From Brookings: This month marks the third anniversary of the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and its $350 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. State, local, and tribal governments have had three years to appropriate, obligate, and spend SLFRF dollars […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Neighbors near where a developer wants to build two new apartment buildings on south Kingshighway expressed concerns about parking, traffic and housing affordability at a community meeting Saturday. Kansas City-based NorthPoint Development in February demolished a row of vacant, dilapidated houses at Kingshighway and Oakland Avenue. The company wants to build […]
From MRN: At its April 11 meeting, the O’Fallon City Council conducted a public hearing and gave a first reading to two bills covering the proposed and controversial Post Family Subdivision. One bill would approve a petition for voluntary annexation of 103.73 acres at 1065 East Hwy. N. The land is currently in unincorporated St. […]
From The Wall Street Journal: Barely a decade after Detroit declared bankruptcy, the city is emerging as America’s most unlikely real-estate boomtown. A development frenzy has gripped Detroit’s central business district. Big companies, including Ford and developer Related Cos., are spending billions of dollars on office buildings and other properties. Dan Gilbert, a Detroit native […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A litany of mistakes by a St. Louis County contractor, from a missing sewer line to the use of outdated designs, has delayed the opening of a new North County police precinct by almost a year, according to county documents. The $12.5 million North County police precinct, at 11030 Dunn Road […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A developer has submitted plans to build a pair of new condominium buildings in the Old Town neighborhood of Clayton, at the site of a historic house in what is mostly a single-family neighborhood. In a proposal submitted to the city Thursday, a three-story condo complex, 139 North Bemiston, would […]
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