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Herc Rentals — a major provider of construction equipment and tool rentals — has filed a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice relating to staffing changes at its Midtown St. Louis location (3030 Market St.). According to the notice and local reporting, the company plans to lay off 30 employees beginning around March 11, […]

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From West Newsmagazine: Few issues illustrate the growing tension between economic opportunity and community concern more clearly than the debate over data centers. Across our region, proposals for large-scale data infrastructure projects have been met with resistance rooted in legitimate questions about land use, energy demand, water consumption and long-term community impact. Those concerns deserve […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: The real estate arm of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 is adding a new St. Louis-area training center to meet the demand from people who are entering the profession, officials said. Plumbers & Pipefitters Local Union 562 Building Corp. in September bought the building, at 3630 Corporate Trail Drive in […]

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From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Iron Workers Local 396’s Travis Barnes has been promoted to business manager/financial secretary-treasurer of the union. Barnes joined the union 29 years ago. He has served as a business agent for six years and as an officer for 23 years. Barnes, a second-generation Local 396 member, followed in his […]

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From Facility Executive: The global data center sector is poised for continued unprecedented expansion, with capacity expected to nearly double from 103 GW to 200 GW by 2030, according to JLL’s newly released 2026 Global Data Center Outlook. Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the data center landscape, and JLL anticipates AI workloads will represent […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: The city of St. Louis is accepting bids for work on the second phase of the Tower Grove Connector, a cycle track expected to connect Tower Grove Park and the Cortex innovation district. Bids for the project are being accepted through the city and the St. Louis Development Corp.’s websites […]

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Kenneth Mayer remembers the moment he discovered a photo of his maternal great-grandmother as a teenager. “I immediately felt a sense of connection,” said Mayer, an avid genealogist. Describing his great-grandmother as a missing piece in his family’s history, that photo changed his entire outlook on a woman who was a […]

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St. Louis-based Contegra Construction is advancing a spring 2026 completion of a 70,000-square-foot distribution center in Manhattan, Kansas for Jones Development, a nationally active, family-owned real estate development firm with more than 31 years of experience. Dubbed Project Wildcat, the distribution center is emerging on a 16-acre site adjacent to Manhattan Regional Airport and just […]

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Tarlton, St. Louis’ largest women-owned general contracting and construction management firm, promoted Roslyn Croft to director of community engagement. In this role, Croft will serve as a key member of Tarlton’s Business Development and Marketing team and identify and cultivate business opportunities, build external relationships and support the firm’s strategic growth objectives. She joined Tarlton […]

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From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: St. Charles County Council members recently approved a bill including an amendment to increase funding for Hwy. N improvements and remove funding to extend Lake St. Louis Boulevard. The more than $9 million proposed for the extension project was reassigned to the Hwy. N project, bringing funds for Hwy. N up […]

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From Facility Executive: The 2025 State of Our Schools report, released by the 21st Century School Fund, International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), and the National Council on School Facilities (NCSF), shows that the U.S. now faces a $90 billion shortfall in school facility funding every single year, despite significant progress local school districts have made […]

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From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: A proposed agreement between the city of O’Fallon and the developer of a planned sports complex is set to go before the City Council at its next meeting. The agreement includes tax breaks and new tax districts to help the developer break even on the project, something O’Fallon Economic Development Director […]

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From Leader Publications: An Arnold construction company has been hired to rehabilitate the northbound and southbound Meramec River bridges on I-55 in the Arnold area, Missouri Department of Transportation officials announced. Kozeny Wagner Construction will be paid $16.5 million to complete routine maintenance on the bridges and to repair deteriorated sections of the decks on […]

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St. Louis-based Oculus Inc., a full-service architecture and interior design firm, is thrilled to announce that The Rawlings Experience, its flagship experiential concept for Rawlings Sports Goods Company, has been awarded Gold in the prestigious ICSC Global Design & Development Awards. The project took home the top honor in the “Tenants in a Retail Environment […]

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From Facility Executive: Many factors contribute to the increase in competition for skilled work in a strained job market, from the rise of artificial intelligence to trade workers foregoing college before starting their careers. As a result, trade professionals are looking for ways to stand out in a crowded room of candidates. One of the […]

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From RiverBender: SCI Engineering’s work to drain the soccer field sinkhole at Gordon Moore Park in Alton is underway in early January 2026. These are photos and video from Doug Booten of the early work on the sinkhole this week. SCI has stated it plans to drill small testing points into the ground surrounding the […]

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: An overflow crowd packed into Foristell City Hall and dozens more residents stood outside Monday night, anxious to hear details from officials representing one of the two proposed data centers companies wanting to build here. City officials have said a pair of out-of-state firms representing unknown developers have expressed interest in […]

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From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: The preliminary design for a new public safety center was revealed at the Dec. 10 Wentzville Board of Aldermen meeting. Architect James Estes from the Police Facility Design Group presented images and site plan options for the board to consider. The 63,267-square-foot facility is currently slated to have two main entry […]

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From KMOV: A long-debated housing development in O’Fallon is back in front of city leaders and the public Tuesday night, according to the agenda. The O’Fallon Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to review the future of the Tall Tree development, a proposed 239-home subdivision planned for 161 acres on the city’s western edge. The […]

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The Heartland Regional Investment Fund, LLC (HRIF), a certified Community Development Entity and subsidiary of the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, has been awarded $50 million in New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The allocation matches the largest NMTC award in HRIF’s history, which […]

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