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From RiverBender:  A downtown property that served as Edwardsville’s first City Hall and was the longtime home of public safety services is being transformed into The Station on Main, an estimated $20 million mixed- use development with residential, office, retail and restaurant space. The property includes parcels from 400-420 N. Main Street, which are owned […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District’s Executive Director and CEO Brian Hoelscher told Webster Groves city officials Tuesday that the way to mitigate the impact of floods is to remove properties located in floodplains. Detailing rainfall levels in the region from July and August qualifying as 100-year and 500-year events, Hoelscher said that […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Topgolf has set a target opening for its new St. Louis location in Midtown, after purchasing property for the golf entertainment venue from Saint Louis University for millions of dollars. The Dallas-based golf entertainment operator will open its second St. Louis location in late 2023, the company said Tuesday. A […]

From West Newsmagazine:  A request for a zoning change for two lots on the Gateway Studios property on the north side of Outer 40 Road led to a discussion about restaurant hours in Chesterfield Valley at the Oct. 3 City Council meeting. Gateway Studios is building a live touring rehearsal complex and production services company […]

With continued steady growth in PARIC’s Kansas City division, the company has added Joel Crocker as Kansas City preconstruction director. PARIC, recently named a “Top Workplace,” is one of the largest construction companies in the Midwest. Crocker, with 25 years of experience in the construction industry, is recognized regionally as a leader in preconstruction systems […]

Holland Construction Services is making progress on one of its newest midrise development projects in the St. Louis area and recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the project. Bemiston Place is a new $101 million multi-family complex being developed in Clayton, Missouri. Construction began in early summer and columns now stand where the complex is […]

KAI Enterprises proudly announces the promotion of KAI Vice President of Finance Shawn Lewinski, CPA to Chief Financial Officer and KAI Controller Amanda Schwane, MSA to Vice President of Finance & Controller. They will also be serving in these roles for sister firm The UP Companies (UPCO). Shawn Lewinski, Chief Financial Officer In their new […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Downtown Edwardsville is getting its first mixed-use development, with apartments and townhouses on historic Main Street. The Station on Main, an estimated $20 million mixed-use development with multiple levels of residential, office, retail and restaurant space, will be developed by Fireside Financial, an Edwardsville-based private equity firm. The demolition of a […]

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  Ed Finkelstein, publisher emeritus of the Labor Tribune, said he started his career at the paper as a gopher: “Hey kid, go-fer the donuts. Hey kid, go-fer the coffee.” And with that introduction to how his 50-year Labor Tribune career unofficially launched when he was 14 and began working […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The St. Louis area, with more than 60 breweries, will soon be adding another. Construction on Shoehorn Brewery, located at 225 E. Main St. in Belleville, is nearly complete, with plans to open soon. The brewery needs some finishing touches and is just awaiting clearance from the state to begin serving, […]

From KSDK:  St. Louis County Police Chief Kenneth Gregory told his fellow commanders he found out construction was going to get started on two new precinct stations when he turned on the news and saw County Executive Sam Page making the announcement on Sept. 21. The projects have been in the works for more than five […]

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  Four Missouri tradeswomen traveled to London to participate in the 2022 Tradeswomen Building Bridges (TBB) conference to inspire more women in the United Kingdom and internationally to build careers in the construction trades. They were among nearly 50 delegates from North America who represented the diversity of women working […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The Bass Pro Shops location that’s under construction is getting bigger, even before it opens. The new store in Sunset Hills, originally projected to open in the second half of 2022, will now take up the entire shopping center at 3600 S. Lindbergh Blvd., with the Springfield, Missouri-based outdoor retailer […]

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 hosted a ribbon cutting at its state-of-the-art training center at 3755 Corporate Trail Drive to mark the official opening of the facility. The training center opened in the summer of 2020 but with COVID-19 restrictions, the official grand opening was delayed until Sept. 22. […]

From Smart Cities Dive:  The U.S. Department of Transportation will need to staff up to manage the IIJA’s many projects, but states and cities also face staffing shortages, the inspector general said. The U.S. Department of Transportation needs to recruit, develop and retain an expanded staff to oversee the implementation of $660 billion in funding […]

From Commercial Observer:  The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a climate bill by another name, and a historic one at that. The legislation, passed in August and signed into law by President Joe Biden, is designed to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint by jump-starting innovation and adoption of cleaner energy sources. In particular, the legislation […]

From Gensler:  Throughout the pandemic, we have seen more and more property improvement plans, and for good reason: Renovating and refreshing brands with existing assets can sometimes be more palatable for developers and investors than ground-up hotel construction in an unsteady and uncertain market. Over the past few years, hotel developers have shown particular interest […]

From FacilitiesNet:  Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “Great Resignation” that has followed, there has been a mass exodus of workers across all industries. To put it in perspective, in September 2021, the same month federal unemployment insurance benefits ended, 4.4 million U.S. workers quit their jobs. One month later, another 4.2 million employees […]

This week Louis Kelly Construction Forum drone photographer and owner of Drone Eagle LLC, captured images of “The Preserve,” a residential project which is part of the new development taking place down the Watson Road corridor from Sappington Road to MacKenzie Road.  When the Zorensky brothers opened Crestwood Plaza at the intersection of Sappington and […]

by Ron Unterreiner, Founder, PEOPLE of Construction Editor’s note: “Opportunity Report” is a regular feature of ConstructForSTL.org — a column by PEOPLE of Construction Founder Ron Unterreiner that we’re calling “Opportunity Report”. Martin Luther King wrote, “The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.” Dr. King noted that it does no good […]