Poettker Construction, a multi-generation family-owned construction company, raised $52,000 in its annual golf classic for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Illinois (BBBSIL). The golf classic was held July 29, 2022, at Roland Barkau Memorial Golf Course in Okawville, IL. Pictured (left to right): Christina Cathcart, BBBSIL Assistant Director of Community Engagement; Jonathon Carroll, Poettker […]
IMPACT Strategies has completed extensive interior renovations at The Watermark at St. Peters, a three-story, 184-residence independent living facility in St. Peters, MO. The Watermark is a 13-acre retirement community featuring walking paths, a lake with unique water features, and outdoor amenity spaces in a resort-like setting. The comprehensive renovation of the interior of the […]
There is nothing quite like a ground level view of successful community building in North St. Louis. That’s the point of the fifth annual Trap Run 5K and Festival on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022 hosted by Northside Community Housing Inc. The event will wind its way through North St. Louis streets on […]
G.T. Cozad III, president of Cozad Commercial Real Estate, Ltd. and Cozad Property Management Co., has been elected to the legal board of directors of Midwest BankCentre. Cozad’s real estate expertise will help Midwest BankCentre accelerate its progress toward the shared prosperity it is creating through high-impact local community banking. He leads Cozad’s brokerage, property […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Several area projects, including the Interstate 270 bridge, are part of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s $34.6 billion six-year spending plan for roads, bridges, rail, ports, transit and airports. Announced Friday, the multi-year plan is backed by the state’s 2019 Rebuild Illinois bipartisan infrastructure law which doubled the state’s motor fuel […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:Â By the end of this year, parts of the former Edwardsville Public Safety Complex at 400 N. Main St. may be just a memory. The city’s finance and administrative and community service (ACS) committees unanimously voted in favor of a resolution authorizing a tax-increment financing (TIF) redevelopment agreement with 400 North […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: A 30-page master plan from Edwardsville’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee (BPAC) is headed to the full city council for a vote Tuesday. Edwardsville received a Community Planning Grant from the Metro East Park and Recreation District (MEPRD) in 2021 to develop a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. The planning process for […]
From St. Louis Post Dispatch: From the low-lying stretch of Manchester Road, just east of Brentwood Boulevard, Bob Story has spent 30 years growing Feather-Craft Fly Fishing into an established player in the industry. The company his father started in 1955 now has about 20 employees, a mail-order business with nationwide reach and loyal anglers […]
From KRMS:  According to a story posted by the Lake Sun Leader, The Lake Ozark Board of Aldermen are being asked to approve an ordinance at Tuesday’s regular meeting that would retain Regional Strategies, LLC to “assist the City’s economic development team and further explore potential interest with local developers, regional developers and national developers and help […]
From Call Newspapers:Â The Crestwood Board of Aldermen approved a zoning change and preliminary plan for a large mixed use development July 27. The project, located at 8800 Watson Road, was presented by CWD Equity for a zoning change from planned development-commercial to planned development-mixed use. Currently the site is home to Victory Raceway go-karting and […]
From typeinvestigations:  Set on St. Louis’ neglect-scarred north side, 3211 Blair Avenue barely stands out. With shards of rotting wood serving as the only reminder of a front porch, and windows shrouded in graying plywood, it’s one of more than 10,000 vacant buildings in the city. Some of the city’s skeletal structures have burned-out, caved-in roofs. […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Â Washington University is in the process of demolishing a building along Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis’ Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. The city on Aug. 2 issued a demolition permit for the vacant 6030 Delmar Blvd., near the Delmar Loop MetroLink station. Though the property is located in a local historic district, the […]
From the Intelligencer:Â Â Though minimal work has already begun along Meridian Road, Glen Carbon trustees unanimously approved the final area plan and final section plans for the first two phases of the mixed-use project Tuesday. Trustee Nekisha Omotola was absent. In a memo dated Aug. 2, Building and Zoning Administrator Stacy Jose told the mayor and […]
From Daily Commercial News: Supporting Women in Trades (SWIT) is launching a National Leadership Development Program this fall that is aimed at providing the tools and resources to help tradeswomen and gender-diverse trades acquire skills to move up in their industry. The online program, designed by experts, will teach female trades about self-advocacy, public speaking, […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Â The HFW Cos., a St. Louis-based professional services firm targeting the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector for investments, has added a Texas land surveying company to its growing portfolio. HFW said this week that it has formed a “strategic growth partnership” with 4Ward Land Surveying, an Austin, Texas-based business that […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A number of residential developments are moving ahead inside a $500 million mixed-use development in Chesterfield. Wildhorse Village will be an 80-acre walkable community centered around a 15-acre lake at the intersection of Wild Horse Creek Road and Chesterfield Parkway. St. Louis-based CRG, the development arm of Chicago-based Clayco, described its […]
From Point 2: The construction sector has certainly had its share of pandemic-related struggles with indefinite site shutdowns, a scarce labor force and supply chain disruptions, among an array of other setbacks. As the effects are still being felt, developers are facing new changes and government regulations in an industry that’s stubbornly trying to bounce back. […]
by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum Editor’s Note: This video taken from a Zoom recording of the St. Louis Port Authority’s Thursday (Aug. 11) includes the presentation of the slide deck on the proposed $1.2B Gateway South project with project particulars and information about the developers, as well as the answers of the consultants […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Clayton officials are considering next steps after health care giant Centene (NYSE: CNC) officially terminated the remainder of its deal to expand its headquarters in the city, foregoing future tax breaks that required the construction of a public auditorium. Centene notified the city in a July 7 letter that the […]
From Builder and Developer:Â Inflation remains too high, interest rates are rising and consumer sentiment has hit the floor. Given these sour economic conditions, one would be forgiven if it was assumed the housing market is in equally dire straits. While headwinds have certainly built, and the market is showing some signs of softening, housing […]
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