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From Leader Publications: The Festus R-6 Board of Education recently approved $680,188 in expenditures to improve school buildings and other facilities around the district. School board members voted unanimously Feb. 16 to enter contracts with five companies to complete the various improvements, awarding the contracts to the lowest bidder for each of the projects. All the […]

From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: McDonald’s has teamed up with Lightsource bp to launch a solar project in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, roughly 25 miles from Lafayette, according to a recent press release. The Prairie Ronde Solar project is expected to generate 327,000-megawatt hours, the average annual electricity consumption of 30,700 US homes. Construction of the project […]

From Higher EDDIVE: The clean energy industry is booming, but the labor supply remains low. Partnering with community colleges to offer pathways to employment could help the industry meet its increasing demand for workers, said a workforce development official with the Foundation for California Community Colleges. He was speaking at a workforce development session at Intersolar North America […]

This week, Louis Kelly, Forum drone photographer and owner of Drone Eagle LLC, captures progress on the new $22M Clark Family Branch of the St. Louis County Library. The new branch, to be named the Clark Family Branch, is expected to be completed in late 2023 and will replace the former headquarters building at 1640 […]

Wiegmann Associates has begun work on the new Francis Howell North High School in the Francis Howell School District in St. Charles, Missouri. Wiegmann is serving as the HVAC mechanical contractor. S. M. Wilson & Co. is the Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) and Hoener Associates is the architect. Construction of the new 410,000-square-foot facility […]

For the first time in its 57-year history, the SITE Improvement Association endorsed a political candidate Tuesday (Feb. 28). SITE’s endorsement of Missouri Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe for Governor was made during the association’s infrastructure expo at the St. Charles Convention Center. “This is the first time SITE’s Board of Directors has ever officially endorsed […]

McCarthy Building Companies Inc.’s Water Services team has been selected as the construction manager at-risk for the $215 million expansion of the Sioux Falls Regional Water Reclamation Plant in Sioux Falls, SD. The first major expansion since the plant was built in the 1980s, it is expected to increase the facility’s capacity by 50 percent—from […]

The South Grand Community Improvement District (the CID), which provides enhanced public safety, maintenance, building improvements and economic development beyond those supplied by St. Louis City, announces the recommendations from a recent Urban Land Institute – St. Louis (ULI St. Louis) technical assistance panel (TAP). ULI St. Louis was retained by the CID to study […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The Jewel Box in Forest Park reopens Saturday after getting a bit of winter polishing. Like many gems, the glow at the historic greenhouse comes from within. A team of horticulturists spent the past two weeks trimming back palms, banana trees and birds of paradise and replanting Australian tree ferns and […]

Helmkamp Construction continues to grow with the addition of Brandon Lange to their project management team. Lange joins Helmkamp as a 2014 civil engineering graduate from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with nine years of project management experience. He will be mainly focused on serving Helmkamp’s clients in building and life science markets. When asked why […]

From The Source-WASHU: Ed Soltero has been appointed assistant vice chancellor and university architect for Facilities Planning & Management at Washington University in St. Louis, announced Shantay Bolton, executive vice chancellor for administration and chief administrative officer. In his position, Soltero will lead the planning and design team and manage initiatives for long-term campus planning, collaborate […]

From Yahoo:  PGAV announces Andy Struckhoff as the new President of PGAV Planners, LLC, the firm’s fast-growing urban planning practice subsidiary. Struckhoff, elevated from his role as Vice President, has led the group to achieve deeper regional partnerships; working with the City of St. Louis to develop the Economic Justice Action Plan, with the 24:1 Municipal Collaborative on a […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  South Side Spaces, a St. Louis-based property development and management company, is hosting a contest to give a small business six months of free rent at its latest renovation project. Located at 2616-20 Cherokee St., the mixed-use building in Gravois Park will have six apartments and three commercial units. Aldermen previously […]

From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  Five zoning requests were unanimously approved Tuesday by the Madison County Zoning Board of Appeals. The five include: • A request by Ana K. Flores Garcia and Gloria Flores Garcia for a special use permit to allow continued placement of a single-wide mobile home at 3214 Yale Avenue, Collinsville. • A […]

From Missouri Business Alert: The Federal Aviation Administration awarded $7 million to three Missouri airports for renovations and restructuring, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Monday. The Missouri airports were included in the administration’s nearly $1 billion in funding to 99 airports across the country. The funding comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and is part of the […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Dillard’s Inc. is alleging city officials “colluded” with developers behind a $3 billion effort to create a downtown Chesterfield that could cause the retailer to lose its store through eminent domain, according to a new lawsuit. The department store chain alleges Chesterfield officials did not follow state law when it approved […]

From Leader Publications:  A vacant factory and warehouse at 605 E. Outer 21 between Arnold and Fenton may get a new lease on life as a shingles distribution site. The Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 on Feb. 9 to recommend approval of a rezoning request for the 1.7-acre property, which is just south […]

Western Specialty Contractors – St. Louis Masonry Branch has restored the façade of Southwestern Illinois College’s three-story main complex in Belleville, IL. Founded in 1946, Southwestern Illinois College is a public community college in Illinois with campuses in Belleville, Granite City and Red Bud. Western contracted with project consultant Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. (WTI) in May […]

Clayco, a full-service, turnkey real estate, architecture, engineering, design-build and construction firm, is pleased to announce three new appointees to serve on the company’s Board of Advisors. Coming from a variety of industries and leadership positions, these new appointees bring years of experience to help Clayco pursue its organizational goals and navigate industry challenges as […]

From Gensler:  Lifelong learning can be transformative. It gives us a sense of progression and evolution, and a sense of direction and purpose. As a concept, the potential opportunity it brings is excellent, but as a process, lifelong learning hasn’t translated itself into our culture or manifested itself in our everyday lives. There is still […]