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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: While Glen Carbon’s newest subdivision got its preliminary plat and rezoning approved Tuesday by the village’s building and development panel, not everything about it was smooth sailing. Hidden Hills, if it gets final approval, will turn from agricultural and forested land to 104 single-family home sites built in two separate phases. […]
From Call Newspapers: Oakville Middle School and Wohlwend Elementary will get upgraded secure entry vestibules this summer. The Mehlville School District Board of Education voted unanimously Jan. 18 to approve a $1.026 million dollar bid for Aspire Construction Services to upgrade both the entry vestibules at Oakville Middle and Wohlwend Elementary. The bid includes professional, […]
From St. Louis Magazine: There are two weeks left to vote online for how you think the city should invest the Rams money (i.e., the $250 million the city won in its suit against the NFL over the Rams departure). This is not a binding vote. Rather, it’s a narrowed-down list of 20 ideas that […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Tourism agency Explore St. Louis is seeking $20 million more from the city of St. Louis for work on the expansion of the America’s Center tourism complex downtown, which officials said would bring the tab so far to $260 million. The money would come from interest on the city’s Rams […]
From Construction Dive: After numerous project wins in the manufacturing, infrastructure and healthcare construction sectors last year, Chicago-based Clayco plans to further expand its operations in St. Louis. The construction firm originally moved out of the city more than a decade ago, relocating its headquarters to Chicago in 2013. Since then, the company has begun […]
From NextSTL: Plans and renderings of the project to replace the almost century-old Union-Lindell bridge were presented to members of the Forest Park Advisory Board at their December meeting. Plans show a new entry/exit connector to Forest Park Parkway, as well as new aesthetic elements to form a new gateway into the city’s premier park. […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The city is a national outlier for awarding tax breaks to developers, amounting to a loss of $1,634 per student per year in St. Louis Public Schools, according to a report released Wednesday. The report looks at annual revenue losses from tax abatements in SLPS and the 23 school districts in […]
From Riverfront Times: St. Louis’ population decline is often talked about in the context of the city’s population peaking shortly after World War II and then dropping steadily in the seven decades since. But Saint Louis University professor and demographer Ness Sándoval says that to only focus on the city is to miss the bigger […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis’ development chief said Tuesday that Clayco’s pitch to consolidate a concrete operation and headquarters at a North City site not only didn’t fulfill the requirements of a request for proposals, but didn’t show evidence of community engagement, which is also mentioned in the document. “That was not presented […]
From CityScene STL: Just one block north of St. Louis City SC’s CityPark, on some grave lots on Washington and Locust, AHM Group is moving ahead with their series of developments. The first phases are up for review at the City’s Preservation Board next week and will be the first new-construction residential projects in Downtown […]
From MRN: The final plan for the Prairie Encore multi-use development passed at the Jan. 17 Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen meeting, along with the deposit agreement between the city and KaLeco LLC. This large development has drawn the attention of residents and officials from neighboring cities as it included road expansion agreements with the […]
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