Today (Jan. 29), TW Constructors announces the acquisition of their sprawling new headquarters location in Earth City, MO. Located at 4500 Earth City Expressway the purchase of this prime site was finalized on January 16th and marks a significant milestone for TW Constructors and its family of companies. “This is an awesome accomplishment for TW […]
IWR North America, a leader in building enclosures, is proud to announce the addition of Joel Reed to its team as a Project Manager, primarily focusing on metal construction projects. Joel brings a diverse and comprehensive background in the construction and industrial sectors, with significant expertise in project management, safety management, and estimating. His experience […]
Demolition is now complete on the former 44-year-old Eureka, MO city hall structure, clearing the way for a new $11.5M government center. The new municipal center will be located on existing city-owned property which will also feature public and secured parking areas, connection to the city’s accessible walking trails, and other site amenities planned for […]
From NPR: Southwest Airlines will now carry the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone on flights. Ballwin resident John Gaal and other advocates have been lobbying the airline to carry naloxone, which is also called Narcan, to protect passengers from opioid overdoses since Gaal witnessed an apparent overdose on a Southwest flight in October 2022. “This stuff’s […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The city is eyeing new powers to spur redevelopment around the nearly complete National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency campus, and it’s being frank that it may need to push aside the area’s largest landholder to do it. That owner, Paul McKee’s NorthSide Regeneration, has been a thorn in the side of City Hall […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A developer is planning a new warehouse complex in St. Charles County. Wabash Center, a new four-building industrial development, is under consideration in O’Fallon, Missouri, city records show. The project, to be developed by Tempest Properties on 9.25 acres the company owns at T.R. Hughes Boulevard and East Wabash Avenue, […]
From The Intelligencer:Â The village has undergone substantive changes in the past year: Two sizable retail and mixed-use areas have been carved out of former farmland and a tree nursery to become Meridian Plaza and Orchard Town Center (OTC), respectively. For 2024, Glen Carbon Mayor Bob Marcus expects that kind of growth to continue. According […]
From NEXT STL: By Richard Bose: In September SSM Health officials announced plans for a new Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital at the corner of Grand and Chouteau in the Tiffany neighborhood. It would replace the current facility further south on Grand. They submitted a $300M building permit application last week. They plan to have it […]
From NPR:Â Minority- and women-owned businesses and contractors won just 17% of the $195 million that St. Louis County spent in contracts between 2017 and 2021, according to an independent report commissioned by the county. Arizona-based Keen Independent Research concluded that 40% of those contracts should have been fulfilled by minority- and women-owned businesses, according […]
by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Construction Forum Last Thursday (January 25th) a celebration was held at the LiUNA Event Center on South Lindbergh Blvd. to mark the retirement of Ronny Griffin. He retired as president and a business agent with Laborers Local 110 – the 9th largest union local in the St. Louis region. St. […]
From Bloomberg: Two years ago, a Montana think tank called the Frontier Institute released a new tool to help push the group’s advocacy for pro-housing reforms: a zoning atlas, one of the first of its kind. The atlas used parcel-level data to analyze local regulations that restrict how and where homes can be built, an […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A vacant commercial building once targeted for demolition that has been called “one of the last developable buildings downtown,” could receive city incentives to be converted to an adult day care. The first two floors of the five-story red brick building at 1105 Olive St. would be turned into an […]
From Utility Dive:Â Two winters ago, a deadly storm crippled Texas. The ice storm hammered the electric grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of citizens without power, freezing in the cold. In their final report, the Texas Department of Health and Human Services put the death toll at 246. About two-thirds of the deaths were due […]
Professional Installers, Inc. (Pi), a leading provider of office furniture installation services, proudly announces its 40th anniversary. Since 1984, Pi has been at the forefront of delivering top-notch office furniture solutions, earning a national reputation for excellence and reliability in the industry. Over the past four decades, the company has witnessed remarkable growth and success, […]
Brinkmann Constructors has invested in food industry expertise with the addition of food construction veteran Charles Hirschi to its team as executive director of food and beverage. Thirty one years ago Hirshi founded St. Louis Ficon (an acronym for Food Industry Construction), a firm specializing in building solutions for clients in the food and beverage […]
Thomas “Tom” Wischmeyer, 56, a fixture in the St. Louis electrical industry and vice president at Guarantee Electrical Company for many years, passed away on Friday, January 5, 2024. Mr. Wischmeyer, a veteran of the United States Army, was an enthusiastic outdoorsman, jack of all trades and above all else a dedicated husband, father, and […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â An architecture and interior design firm based in New Hampshire is moving its St. Louis office to Clayton. Market Square Architects PLLC will move from an office in Tower Grove South to downtown Clayton, the firm said in a news release. The new office is located in the Regus coworking […]
From St. Louis Magazine: By Chris Krehmeyer: I’ve written a lot about the work of Beyond Housing and our partners in transforming the many under-resourced communities in North St. Louis County—and why reversing decades of decline and poverty in these communities is vital for the success of the greater St. Louis region. In addition to […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Â A dispute between a neighborhood association and a nonprofit has delayed a development that would house families of veterans hospitalized at the John Cochran VA Medical Center. A city board tabled its decision on Tuesday to sell four properties to the Friends of Fisher House St. Louis for its $10 million […]
From St. Louis Magazine:Â Constance Vale works at the nexus of art, technology, and architecture, and creates new ways of making communities beautiful, livable, and interesting. Vale, an associate professor and chair of undergraduate architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, is among the architects designing a house for the On Olive redevelopment project, a […]
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