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From Leader Publications: A new Express Mart convenience store and gas station is going up in Barnhart. The owner of the Express Mart franchise, Home Service Oil Co., also based in Barnhart, is replacing its location at 1621 Marriott Lane with a state-of-the-art station and store across the street at 6911 Metropolitan Blvd. Both stores are […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: March 13, 2023 (St. Louis, MO) – Over the last ten years, hundreds of immigrants have jump started their networking and many have found jobs because of one introduction to a local professional made by the St. Louis Mosaic Project, an initiative of the non-profit World Trade Center-St. Louis. Today, the […]

From STL Partnership:  The Irish American Heritage Celebration is free and open to the public. Join the Recorder of Deeds, Michael Butler, for an Irish American Heritage Celebration in St. Louis! The event features the sounds of Irish Music and Bagpipes, The Ancient Order of Hibernians Color Guard, the tastes of Irish Food and an Award […]

From MRN: At its March 9 meeting, the City Council approved two road projects and introduced bills for four others. All were sponsored by Mayor Bill Hennessy. Sommers Road By a vote of 9 – 0, the council passed Bill No. 7536 for the Sommers Road Widening and Improvements Project. A Ward 1 seat remains vacant […]

From Illinois Business Journal: AAIC inc. recently welcomed Justin Scott to its growing team. He will fill a Project Management role and will serve in that capacity on several upcoming, exciting projects.  He will also assist AAIC’s construction administration team on current projects under construction. “Justin is a detail-orientated and organized individual who will strengthen our […]

From Leader Publications:  The city of Arnold will spend $1,676,716.70 to replace a buckling retention wall, replace concrete on numerous streets and fix a broken section of a stormwater pipe. City Council members voted unanimously March 2 to approve the three projects. The city will pay Keeley Construction Group of St. Louis $912,353.20 to tear […]

From St. Louis Public Radio:  St. Louis leaders announced a series of funds and initiatives Tuesday to support economic development among historically marginalized communities. One is the Economic Justice Accelerator Fund, which will combine private donations from companies with philanthropic funding and money from the American Rescue Plan and other public sources. The intention is […]

Hope Gribble, Green Schools Manager for the Missouri Gateway Green Building Council, has been named a 2023 Best of Green Schools Award recipient for the Michelle Curreri Collaborator Award category, presented by the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council and Green Schools National Network. Hope Gribble accepts 2023 Best of Green […]

The Southern Illinois Construction Advancement Program and Southern Illinois Builders Association will hold their Awards Program on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the SIBA Office, 1468 N. Green Mount Road, O’Fallon, Illinois. Four firms will be recognized for 50 years of membership: Jim Taylor, Inc., Belleville, Illinois; DeLaurent Construction Company, […]

Western Specialty Contractors – St. Louis Concrete Branch is completing the final phases of restoration work on the CityPlace Four parking garage in Creve Coeur, MO. Constructed in 2001, CityPlace Four is a four-story, 103,000-square-foot office building with a 339-space connected 15,600-square-foot parking garage. A lack of maintenance, poor drainage and leaking planter boxes on […]

by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum I wish my late Dad was around to join us at Armory STL on May 18th to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Construction Forum. Our theme for the event is “The Future Is Now: Celebrating Systems Change”. My Dad loved our construction industry and the St. Louis Region, […]

From St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis developer Lux Living’s bid for a review of a city board’s denial of a proposed apartment complex at Kingshighway Boulevard and Interstate 64 was rejected Wednesday by another city commission. In a unanimous vote, the St. Louis Planning Commission declined at its meeting Wednesday to review the St. Louis […]

From Utility Dive:  Pre-apprenticeship programs that recruit returning citizens are among innovative approaches workforce development experts are considering to meet high demand for renewable energy workers, participants said at an American Council on Renewable Energy forum Friday. The Solar Energy Industries Association’s vice president of equity and workforce development, Erika Symmonds, emphasized long-term considerations such as […]

From St. Louis Business Journal: Recent news of major office landlords Brookfield Property Partners LP and Columbia Property Trust defaulting on loans for prominent U.S. office properties may’ve sent a shiver through an already anxious commercial real estate industry. But are they indicative of a looming threat? Some analysts who track the office market say it’s more likely […]

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  Each year, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides selected cities with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. For 2022, O’Fallon received a total of $342,652. That CDBG funding was budgeted and accounted for as part of O’Fallon overall city budget. Each city receiving those funds must […]

From Utility Dive: Dive Brief:  After watching solar installations decline 16% in 2022, solar industry analysts expect to see a rebound in 2023. But the year ahead is so uncertain that Wood Mackenzie has forecast three potential scenarios. The difference between the three scenarios is relatively small—with a roughly ten percent difference between the baseline scenarios […]

From WIRED: In Odessa, Texas, workers at a startup called SolarCycle unload trucks carrying end-of-life photovoltaic panels freshly picked from commercial solar farms across the United States. They separate the panels from the aluminum frames and electrical boxes, then feed them into machines that detach their glass from the laminated materials that have helped generate electricity […]

From The Business Journals: The homeownership gap between Black and white Americans continues to widen, underscoring how a whiplash housing market has disproportionately affected minority households. The National Association of Realtors recently found the homeownership rate of Black Americans has only grown 0.4% in the past decade and is nearly 29 percentage points less than white […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times: With Des Peres’ only medical marijuana store awaiting approval to sell recreational marijuana, aldermen have elected to conduct a traffic study. Root 66, 12095 Manchester Road, received a conditional use permit in August 2022 to sell medical marijuana. Following passage of Missouri Amendment 3 in November 2022, the facility has since applied to […]

From The Telegraph: The Village of Glen Carbon has selected a new director of community development. Erika Heil will oversee the village’s building and zoning department and economic development initiatives. She brings to the job a wide range of economic development experience, working in Illinois and Missouri on local, state-wide and regional level programs. She will […]