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Woodworkers Create Art From Tree

2 years ago
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  The Edwardsville Woodworkers Club is doing its part to preserve local history. The club, led by founder Bill Cerny, was able to harvest the wood from an ancient sycamore tree on the 54-acre site of the former Foucek family nursery on Troy Road in Glen Carbon, which will soon be the […]
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50 South Bemiston Grows. Refined Design Revealed.

2 years ago
From CityScene STL:  Back in February, Green Street, along with Sterling Bank and HDA Architects, submitted a plan to the city of Clayton for a 20-story apartment tower at 50 South Bemiston. The project was originally unveiled at the beginning of December 2021 in an invite for neighbors to attend a community meeting to discuss […]
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McBride Homes Moves Forward With Development in Franklin County

2 years ago
From St. Louis Business Journal: McBride Homes, the St. Louis region’s largest homebuilder, is moving forward with a new residential development in Franklin County. An entity affiliated with the company, St. Andrews Drive Development LLC, closed Nov. 21 on the purchase of 31.8 acres of vacant land in the city of Union. Terms of the […]
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AGC Releases New Mental Health Public Service Videos

2 years ago
From Compact Equipment: The Associated General Contractors of America recently released a series of video public service ads that feature real industry professionals who have felt the impact of suffering with mental health issues while trying to maintain the normalcy of day-to-day life and work. These videos are part of the association’s ongoing efforts to combat high suicide rates and […]
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Tarlton Corp. Starts Construction on Outpatient Health Center

2 years ago
From ReJournal:  Tarlton Corp. broke ground Dec. 7 on the SSM Health Outpatient Center in O’Fallon, Missouri, after being selected as construction manager for the two-story 66,000-square-foot destination ambulatory center and outpatient facility in southern Greater St. Charles County. The center will serve as the premier source for the needs of a growing community – one […]
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Developer Aims to Turn Maryland Heights Hotel Into Apartments

2 years ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A developer has filed plans to turn a struggling Maryland Heights hotel into apartments, city documents show. New York-based Churchwick Partners told the city of Maryland Heights that its 106-room Sonesta ES Hotel, at 1855 Craigshire Drive, is losing out to competing hotels and that the tight labor market is making it […]
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$130M Butler Brothers Residential Redevelopment Has a Name, Opening Date

2 years ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  As construction continues on the $130 million project to convert the historic Butler Brothers building into more than 300 apartments, the massive project in Downtown West has a name and a target opening date. Memphis-based developer Development Services Group could finish construction on the first phase of transforming the 735,000-square-foot building […]
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Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave

2 years ago
From New York Intelligencer:  For months, the world’s largest economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse because America’s latter-day robber barons can’t comprehend that workers sometimes get sick. Or so the behavior of major U.S. rail companies seems to suggest. Since last winter, railroad unions and the managers of America’s seven dominant freight-rail carriers have been […]
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Construction Input Prices Tick Down as Supply Chains Improve

2 years ago
From Construction Dive:  Dive Brief: Nonresidential construction input prices declined 0.8% in November compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis, due in part to improvement in supply chains that were battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the monthly decline, nonresidential construction input prices remain 11.5% higher than a year […]
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UMSL Embarks on a Dramatic Campuswide Transformation

2 years ago
From UMSL Daily: Ken Cella wouldn’t change anything about the education he received at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Cella is the principal overseeing branch development at financial services firm Edward Jones and the new president of UMSL’s Chancellor’s Council. He reflects fondly on friends he made at UMSL, relationships he built with faculty members and the […]
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Drone Updates Kirkwood Apartment Progress

2 years ago
Editor’s Note: This week, Forum Drone Pilot/Photographer Louis Kelly of Drone Eagle LLC provides an update onapartments being constructed at the former location of the United Missouri Bank in Kirkwood. Demolition has been completed and sitework is underway on the five-story apartment complex. The 152-unit apartment building, to be called “The James” is the first […]
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St. Louis-Based Legal Services Nonprofit to Move Downtown

2 years ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  A St. Louis-based regional nonprofit that provides civil legal assistance to low-income individuals and families is moving its headquarters to space downtown. Legal Services of Eastern Missouri said Thursday that it will move its main office to the Peabody Plaza building, at 701 Market St. downtown, in late January 2023. […]
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As Supply Chains Unclog, Consumers Enjoy (Tentative) Relief

2 years ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Back in January, 109 container ships waited off the California coast to unload cargo in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s two largest ports. Consumers, stuck at home amid the pandemic, had unleashed an avalanche of orders for goods that overwhelmed factories and ports. Importers were paying $20,000 to send […]
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IMPACT Strategies Begins Construction of SIHF Healthcare Addition

2 years ago
IMPACT Strategies began construction last week on a 5,000 square foot urgent care addition to an existing SIHF Healthcare health center at 2001 State Street, East St. Louis. The addition will include four exam rooms and one procedure room plus lab and radiology services. This will be a $2.8 million investment, partially funded by the […]
Dede Hance

Federal Building Performance Standard Plan Released

2 years ago
From Smart Cities Dive: Dive Brief: The Biden administration announced the first-ever federal building performance standard on Wednesday, a policy move intended to help achieve net-zero emissions in all federal buildings by 2045. The new standard sets a goal of cutting energy use and electrifying equipment and appliances in 30% of building space owned by the […]
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Contegra Completes 1.1M SF Cubes at Etna in Columbus, Ohio

2 years ago
Contegra Construction Co. has completed a 1.1 million square-foot distribution facility at the fast-growing Cubes at Etna 70 industrial development near Columbus, Ohio. The speculative facility known as Building E was built for developer CRG and its capital partner LXP Industrial Trust. The 289-acre master-planned development is located at 9800 Schuster Way at the SR […]
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St. Louis-Based Electrical Components Maker Buys Pennsylvania Manufacturer

2 years ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  Electrical Components International Inc., a Creve Coeur-based manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical components, has expanded with an acquisition. ECI has acquired Britech Inc., an eastern Pennsylvania-based specialty manufacturer of wire harnesses, cable assemblies and other components primarily for the semiconductor industry, as well as HVAC and related industrial technology […]
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