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Over-Budget Bids May Delay New Sidewalks in Edwardsville

1 year 7 months ago
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  The city may push back more than $150,000 in sidewalk repairs after over-budget bids came in from area contractors already busy with long lists of projects. On Tuesday, Edwardsville’s Public Services Committee rejected one sidewalk contract while approving a second one. Bids for a sidewalk contract that uses 2022 Motor Fuel […]
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Addressing the Source of the STL Region’s Challenges — Once and For All

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Magazine:  No one can say that great things aren’t happening in St. Louis. There is the excitement of St. Louis CITY SC’s inaugural season and the team’s new downtown stadium. There is investment and development everywhere, from City Foundry STL to the Armory STL, the $1.7 billion National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new facility […]
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Costco Business Center Under Construction in North STL County

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  A new Costco store is under construction in north St. Louis County, after the future store site traded hands for $15 million. A new Costco Business Center location at the intersection of St. Charles Rock Road and Interstate 170, inside the I-170 Business Center office park in St. John, is […]
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St. Louis’ Economic Future Requires a Lot More Trained Workers

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Public Radio:  The St. Louis region has staked a significant portion of its future economic development on technologies and industries that are still emerging. To make this bet on things like geospatial, advanced manufacturing and agtech successful, the region will need many more workers ready to enter those fields when employers come […]
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Council Moves To Ease Restrictions On Solar Panels

1 year 7 months ago
From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  In an attempt to encourage the use of solar power in the community, the Webster Groves City Council on April 18 held a public hearing on a bill making the process easier to install solar panels on residential homes, including those in the city’s four historic districts. Under the bill, solar panel […]
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Developers of Residence Inn Say it Overcame Obstacles

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  The $47 million Residence Inn in Clayton opened last month despite a number of construction challenges, including supply chain and labor shortages and skyrocketing construction costs, which led to a change in the hotel’s design. The project, the Residence Inn by Marriott, launched in early 2021, during the pandemic. The […]
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SLDC Allocates $10M of Tax Credits for Urban League’s HQ

1 year 7 months ago
From The St. Louis American:  At the Urban League of Metropolitan Saint Louis’ (ULSTL) 105th Annual Dinner earlier this month, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones and St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) presented the organization with a check to represent its allocation of $10 million of New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) to the redevelopment and expansion of […]
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Progress 64 West, YouthBridge Team Up to Offer Entrepreneurial Scholarships

1 year 7 months ago
From West News Magazine:  Progress 64 West and YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis have announced the establishment of a scholarship fund that has the power to help high school seniors achieve their educational goals – The Progress 64 Entrepreneurial Scholarship Fund. The fund is the evolution of Progress 64 West’s existing scholarship program, […]
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Shrewsbury To Create Master Plan For Outdoor Athletic Courts

1 year 7 months ago
From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  Shrewsbury will create a master plan for its outdoor athletic courts thanks in part to grant funding. The Shrewsbury Board of Aldermen on Tuesday gave final approval to a measure that will see the city partner with SWT Design to conduct a needs assessment of its outdoor sports courts. According to Shrewsbury […]
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Niche Food Group to Bring Barbecue Concept to City Foundry

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  Gerard Craft’s Niche Food Group plans to open a new barbecue restaurant concept at City Foundry STL this fall. The new eatery, to be called Expat BBQ, will be a “well-traveled barbecue restaurant” that features flavors from around the world with American barbecue techniques, according to a Monday press release. […]
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Labor Contract Expires for Group of St Louis Contractors

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Post Dispatch:  The labor contract for a group of St. Louis-area construction workers expired this week after their union and an association of contractors failed to reach a new agreement in time. The contract between the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 513 and the Associated General Contractors of Missouri expired Monday, […]
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Davidson Logistics Plans to Open $40M Expansion in Early 2024

1 year 7 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  A Bridgeton-based company that provides logistics services for The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and several other clients is set to open a new 500,000-square-foot warehouse in early 2024. The expansion project is estimated to cost $40 million, said Don Davidson Jr., founder and CEO of Davidson Logistics. The new warehouse, […]
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Spellman Brady and Company Completes Webster University Interior Design

1 year 7 months ago
Spellman Brady & Co., a nationally recognized St. Louis-based interior design firm, is excited to announce the completion of the phase 2 renovation of the west wing of the Sverdrup Complex, home to Webster University’s School of Communications in St. Louis, Missouri. Spellman Brady (SBC) was responsible for specifying and procuring the project’s furniture. Main Interactive […]
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Mia Rose Holdings, Keystone Construction Deliver Chesterfield Sports Complex

1 year 7 months ago
Developer Mia Rose Holdings (MRH) and design-build general contractor, Keystone Construction Company, have completed Chesterfield Sports Complex, St. Louis’ first world-class, indoor volleyball and basketball complex. The 97,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility is the largest in the region and was built to accommodate local, regional and premier national basketball, volleyball and other sporting events. In addition to […]
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Poettker Construction Named 2023 Winner of National AGC Safety Award

1 year 7 months ago
Poettker Construction Company is honored to be named a winning company of The Associated General Contractors of America’s 2023 National Construction Safety Excellence Award. Poettker Construction was awarded first place in the Building division for firms with 400,000 – 600,000 work hours. “To be recognized by the AGC for Poettker’s commitment to safety management over […]
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Western Specialty Contractors Updates St. Louis Corporate HQ

1 year 7 months ago
Western Specialty Contractors – Kansas City Sheet Metal Division was given the task of modernizing the front entrance of its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO. Constructed in 1969, the brick building’s entrance consisted of white metal trim work around a set of double metal doors with a two-foot-wide, rust-colored vertical metal panel wrapping around the entrance’s cornice. A metal light […]
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Celebrating 20 Years of Wash U. Worker Health Project

1 year 7 months ago
by John Gaal, EdD, director of worker wellness, Missouri Works Initiative 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 will be carrying the Worker […]
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Raising Local Labor Force Participation

1 year 7 months ago
From Area Development:  Businesses across the country, in communities large and small, have been challenged to find workers since well before the pandemic. As of November 2022, there were about four million more job openings than available workers, equal to about 1.7 open positions for every person looking for a job. To help employers with […]
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