From St. Louis Business Journal: Workers were busy Monday continuing to prepare the Chesterfield Mall for demolition, which will start Tuesday. As the six-month demolition process kicks off this week, much of what is left behind — including movie theater seats, murals, stray dolls and medical equipment — will be demolished along with the mall. […]
From Leader Publications: Bill Jamison, who heads up the Helping Hands and Horses organization, said he’s happy to again see dirt moving on the organization’s 52-acre site. Jamison, executive director and CEO of the nonprofit therapeutic horseback riding program, began overseeing work to create a veterans park on the organization’s site at 1313 McNutt School […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Six new buildings coming to St. Louis Community College aren’t just for current students, but also for prospective ones. The $450 million STLCC Transformed project to modernize facilities was started after voters passed a bond issue in 2021. First to open this spring are centers for advanced manufacturing and health sciences […]
From Lincoln News Now: Despite the presence of earth-moving machinery and the results of their recent work, ground was “officially” broken at the site of a new 911 Call Center in Troy. While ceremonial in nature, the groundbreaking provided a chance for pictures to be taken with those who made it possible while serving as […]
From Spectrum Local News: A growing number of young people are finding it’s easier to get a job coming out of a skilled trades program than with a bachelor’s degree from a college or university. If you add the fact that the cost of college has doubled since the start of the century — many […]
From Leader Publications: The Jefferson College Board of Trustees recently agreed to spend $153,780 for work on a piece of property on the campus where a burn building for the college’s fire science program will be installed. Board members voted 5-0 Sept. 12 to award the contract to Boyer Building & Design Inc. in De […]
From Construction Dive: Members of Generation Z like me grew up in a world of convenience. We never had to learn how to read a map. We’ve never had to put quarters into our phones to make a call. We created email accounts when we were in elementary school and got cell phones before we […]
From Riverbender: Wood River City Council members this week voted to pursue the creation of a dog park and pocket park in the city’s downtown. City Manager Steve Palen requested to seek bids for both a “Wood River Downtown Pocket Park” and a “Wood River Downtown Dog Park.” Both requests were approved, and the city […]
by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum “You make everyday life better and that gets people to stay in the city. If people stay, then you can start to bring businesses back.” That quotation could have come from any number of leaders in the St. Louis Region… except it didn’t. Instead, it was Detroit Mayor […]
A ceremonial groundbreaking for the first dedicated home for Arts & Sciences on the Danforth Campus took place Oct. 8 at Washington University in St. Louis. The building will house some of the school’s premier departments and programs and serve as a cornerstone for scholarly and educational partnerships with other schools and units across campus. […]
Family-owned McLeod Express is expanding warehousing services with a new 611,000-square-foot facility in Decatur, Ill. Contegra Construction is building the facility and will complete the project in June 2025. The building will be the second warehouse that McLeod operates out of Decatur, Ill. Over the years, McLeod Express has realized an increased demand for warehousing […]
Carmody MacDonald P.C. is pleased to announce that Dennis Donahue III, a seasoned intellectual property attorney, has joined the firm’s corporate/transactional practice group as a partner. A former aerospace engineer and leader of a large Midwest-based law firm, he will expand Carmody MacDonald’s existing intellectual property, patent and trademark legal services to clients, particularly those […]
An event on Oct. 29th offers real, hands-on tools for D/W/MBE firms looking to make their footprint in upcoming transportation design, planning, and construction projects in the region. The St. Louis Chapter, Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) plans a seminar/workshop titled “Stumbling Blocks to Stepping Stones”. The event will be held from 8:00AM – […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Harris-Stowe State University opened its Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship on Thursday as home for its new community-facing business incubator Nxt Lvl. The university’s Minority Entrepreneurship Collaborative Center for Advancement (MECCA), which used to do community programming, will now focus on Harris-Stowe students, faculty and staff out of the Anheuser-Busch […]
From MRN: A large-scale, 239-home residential development near the northwest boundary of the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area has been approved by the O’Fallon City Council. Tall Tree Farm L.P. and Canine Country Kennel and Farm LLC own 161.6 acres located at 9260 and 10102 Hwy. DD, near Diehr Road. In August, the city […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Zeiss, a Germany-based technology company in the optics and optoelectronics sectors, has invested $24 million to expand its operations in Chesterfield, where it says it’s creating 40 new jobs. The expansion, at the Zeiss facility at 722 Goddard Ave. in Chesterfield, includes a new research and production facility and the […]
From Labor Tribune: If it seems like David Beard has been a high-ranking leader among the Iron Workers for a long time, it’s because he has. But on Aug. 29, he received his due from the Southwestern Illinois Central Labor Council at its well-attended annual awards banquet, as always at Bel-Air Bowl. Beard was named […]
From Construction Dive:Â Waiting for other disciplines to finish their jobs before beginning the next phase of work is the leading cause of construction delays, according to a new report from Touchplan, a Boston-based production planning platform. Staffing shortages, followed by material and equipment delays, rank as the second and third largest contributors, reflecting ongoing […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Mercy Hospital South will receive a $75 million expansion and redesign of its emergency department, parent Mercy health system announced. A groundbreaking for the project is scheduled for Thursday morning. The project is expected to be completed in spring 2027, officials said Wednesday in a press release. Alberici is the […]
From Riverbender: U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced $2,327,751,005 in total formula funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to build and maintain roads, bridges and tunnels that will improve efficiency, reduce congestion, improve resiliency against climate change and modernize key infrastructure […]
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