From NextSTL: A recent policy change at the Land Reutilization Authority (LRA), the city’s land bank, is concerning for a city seeking to reverse population loss and struggling to keep up with infrastructure liabilities rendered more difficult by the ever-present rip tide spreading out the region. When a property owner doesn’t pay property taxes and no one […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Brian Kowert Sr., formerly a co-owner and chief operating officer of HBD Construction Inc. in Clayton, was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in prison and fined $100,000 for orchestrating a scheme in which participation in minority business enterprise programs was falsified. He pleaded guilty in January to two counts of […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Soon, the Statue of Liberty will be lifting her lamp beside the golden door of Sauget. Well, maybe not the Statue of Liberty. But certainly a Statue of Liberty. And it came from New York, too. Beginning in 1902, the statue was a familiar sight atop the roof of the Liberty […]
From Fast Company: When UX designer Bianca Pasternack applied for a design job this spring at a company working on climate change, she got a rejection email saying that they’d had 3,000 applicants. At the same time, she kept hearing about the massive shortage of electricians who are necessary to help the country decarbonize. She […]
From Leader Publications: Jefferson College officials will raise tuition next school year as part of its fiscal year 2024 budget, which was approved June 8. The budget also includes a large capital project – an addition to the Viking Woods housing complex. The college’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the budget, which runs […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Officials are hoping to use millions in federal grant funding to offer voluntary buyouts to up to 100 homeowners in St. Charles County, but residents’ responses have been mixed. The county is slated to receive $15.7 million in funding from the Housing and Urban Development’s disaster relief fund to compensate residents […]
From New York Times: In January 1912, in the depths of a New York City winter, an unusual new apartment complex opened on the Upper East Side. The East River Homes were designed to help poor families fend off tuberculosis, a fearsome, airborne disease, by turning dark, airless tenements inside out. Passageways led from the […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A St. Louis development company most known for its industrial work is proposing a new apartment complex in St. Louis County. TriStar Real Estate Acquisitions LLC, which is connected to TriStar Cos., plans a 218-unit apartment complex on on a nearly 19-acre property in unincorporated St. Louis County, near the […]
From Brookings: This March, the White House released an interactive map displaying the over $470 billion in private industrial investments announced since January 2021. These investments in semiconductors, clean energy, electric vehicles, and batteries are the result of a renewed economic and national security vision, as National Security Advisory Jake Sullivan argued in an April […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Tower Grove Park broke ground Tuesday on new basketball courts — bringing them back to the prominent south St. Louis park decades after their removal and, in the eyes of some, helping to make the park more racially inclusive. The park’s installation of two courts near the intersection of Arsenal Street […]
From Castle: Not everyone may know how essential the shop and yard are to the lifeblood of Castle Contracting. Without our earthmoving and excavation machinery and the people who operate them, we don’t exist and simply can’t work. The skill of our mechanics is top of the industry. They make sure our fleet is optimized […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The largest housing development in years may be coming to unincorporated St. Charles County — but neighbors and wildlife advocates are worried about traffic effects and the development’s location near a popular conservation area. Developers are seeking to build a 356-acre, 556-home subdivision known as “Tall Tree” on the largely rural, […]
From Leader Publications: Plans to build a 99-home subdivision at the northwest corner of Vogel and Old Lemay Ferry roads in the Arnold area, where a longtime farm has operated, received preliminary approval. The Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-0 on June 8 to recommend approval of a rezoning request and development plan […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Leaders in communities across the Metro East are shifting the overall approach to economic development in the area away from their individual cities to one that places a premium on collaboration. A few dozen mayors, state representatives, academic institutional leaders and other Metro East community voices underscored this point during […]
From ENR Midwest: As part of a campuswide effort to centralize its facilities, University of Missouri Health Care is on track to relocate its Children’s Hospital to a new $232-million facility after it completes in summer 2024. Under construction since March 2021, the 323,000-sq-ft hospital in Columbia, Mo., is one of the largest and most […]
From Brookings: Place-based economic challenge grants offer regional leaders the potential for transformative local investments totaling tens of millions of dollars over several years—if their application is selected. But with hundreds of regions competing for these funds, any individual place has a relatively low probability of winning. This dynamic characterizes the Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) […]
From Bob Clark Beyond: Clayco and Lamar Johnson Collaborative are using our integrated approach to support higher education! Our teams are working on a joint venture with Poettker Construction and Christner Architects to develop the new Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s (SIUE) 176,000-square-foot health sciences building. The facility will accommodate the School of Pharmacy and the […]
From LinkenIn: The drab lab is dead. Today’s scientists demand workplaces that are vibrant, collaborative, healthy and sustainable. So do we. At HOK, our Science + Technology experts are pioneering new approaches to lab design that make labs as innovative as the science occurring within them. Below are but a few of the things we’ve […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The company that is spending tens of millions of dollars to remake wine country here is running into some stumbling blocks as it works toward redeveloping these rolling hills and valleys. The Florida-based Hoffmann Family of Companies, which started buying land and wineries here about three years ago, now says plans […]
From KMOV: The vast growth that has taken shape across the Midtown region in the last few years could be seen as by design. “The City Foundry was kind of that first, ‘hey look at what’s down, here’,” said Susie Bonwich, the Development Associate for New and Found. “It’s exactly what we wanted is all […]
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