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From Leader Publications:  The Fox C-6 School District is taking steps to fix deteriorating asphalt at the Seckman schools campus and at Rickman Auditorium and to improve energy efficiency at Lone Dell Elementary School. Board of Education members voted 6-0 Jan. 16 to spend a total of $1,002,476 on the capital improvement projects. Board member […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  St. Louis aldermen on Friday gave final approval for tax incentives to support the redevelopment of a downtown St. Louis hotel. Aldermen voted 9-5 to approve subsidies to help fund Midas Hospitality’s $50 million renovation of the 266-room hotel inside the former Edison Brothers Building at 400 S. 14th St. […]

From St. Louis Magazine:  If you’ve driven by Westport Plaza in recent months, you may have noticed something curious. Its gilded office tower, the iconic shimmery gold structure that has defined the northwest county skyline for decades, looks a little different thanks to a rectangular slice that’s been carved out of its west-facing facade. It’s […]

From Next City:  Buzz is building around converting offices into apartment buildings — and for good reason. These conversions can play a part in addressing three pressing urban challenges: a lack of housing, an oversupply of office space and the imperative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It’s time for cities to rethink how they use […]

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  The St. Louis Housing, Urban Development and Zoning (HUDZ) voted Jan. 17 to advance a tax subsidy supporting the remodeling of the struggling Oyo Hotel in downtown St. Louis, despite lingering concerns about the developer’s position on union Labor and workers organizing. Maryland Heights-based Midas Hospitality plans to spend […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Attorneys for controversial developer and landlord Lux Living threatened legal action against St. Louis over its refusal to release records detailing what the city’s development arm has shared with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office about Lux and its owners. A Dec. 15 letter from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner attorney Renato […]

From First Alert 4:  The bridge at Union and Lindell in St. Louis City is a major entrance point to Forest Park and connects multiple city eighborhoods. It’s also long been near the top of the list when it comes to structurally deficient bridges; now a plan to redo the bridge is underway with a […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A developer who plans $200 million in developments in Downtown West is looking to make progress toward one of his projects: a six-story apartment complex. St. Louis-based development firm AHM Group has filed with the St. Louis Preservation Board for permission to demolish a single-story commercial building in order to […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Area leaders hope a proposed Missouri tax credit program will entice developers to tackle two of St. Louis’ most difficult, yet important, real estate projects: the empty AT&T Tower and the historic Railway Exchange building. A new tax credit program introduced in the Legislature would offer incentives to developers who convert […]

From Riverbender.com:  The St. Louis metropolitan area still has the most efficient inland port district in the nation, according to the latest data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The St. Louis region’s barge industry handled over four times the national average tons moved per river mile in 2021 (the most recent year […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Until the bulldozers show up in the backyard, a lot of folks don’t pay much attention to the nitty-gritty operations of their government. So it was for Jon Jerome. Jerome is president of Heroes Care, a nonprofit that helps veterans and their families. He lives in the High Ridge area of […]

From KSDK:  One of Missouri’s busiest highways will undergo several upgrade projects over the next five years thanks to a multi-million dollar grant. On Wednesday, Gov. Mike Parson mentioned during his final State of the State Address, alongside Congressman Sam Graves that the state would be a recipient of a $92.8 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding […]

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  Habitat for Humanity of St. Charles County is accepting new homeowner applications Feb. 1- Feb. 29. A free, informational meeting on Habitat homeownership is scheduled at 6 p.m. on Feb. 21 at the St. Charles County Habitat affiliate office, 2041 Trade Center Drive in St. Peters. Members of the Homeowner Selection […]

From Riverfront Times:  Ernestine Stewart has lived in her home for 42 years and used to only see racoons in more rural areas of the county. Now her north city neighborhood boasts entire racoon families that make it difficult to walk to her front door thanks to the untamed lawns of developer Paul McKee’s vacant […]

Contegra Construction Co. has completed its second large distribution center for NorthPoint Development at the 3,000-acre, master-planned Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC) in Edgerton, Kan. Located at 30700 W. 183rd Street, Inland Port 9 was constructed with tilt-up concrete panels and features a 40-foot clear height, 100 dock doors and four drive-through doors. It includes […]

Funeral services were held Monday (Jan. 29) for Fred Jaeckle, a former manager at S. M. Wilson & Co. and a respected leader in the St. Louis construction industry. Mr. Jaeckle, 79, passed away at his home on Tuesday, January 23, of pancreatic cancer. He died just nine days after his wife of 49 years, […]

by Tom Finan, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Construction Forum  “Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares So go downtown, things’ll be […]

This week the Forum Drone captures steel erection on the new USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service laboratory. Video of the construction was captured by Forum drone pilot/videographer Louis Kelly. The building is being constructed on the site of the former Good Shepherd Convent at 17626 Natural Bridge Road. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd […]

Integrated Facility Services (IFS) has completed complex mechanical contracting projects to convert two historic buildings in downtown St. Louis into mixed-use lofts and commercial space. The Hoffman Lofts and Greeley Lofts are two of the multiple new developments on Laclede’s Landing by St. Louis-based Advantes Development as part of a $55 million investment to add […]

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 […]