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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 […]

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:  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:  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 […]