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From St. Louis Public Radio:  After seven years of community planning, the Cherokee Street Community Improvement District is moving to redevelop Love Bank Park, the street’s only public gathering space. To some, Love Bank Park is exactly that — a place where people can bank on love. Although the park was officially founded in 2015, when its […]

From Citizens for Modern Transit: Citizens for Modern Transit is teaming up with the St. Clair County Transit District and AARP in St. Louis to activate the space around the 5th and Missouri Transit Center in East St. Louis. This joint initiative, known as the “Transit Stop Transformation Project,” will transform the area between the MetroBus area […]

From HOK: As Hispanic Heritage Month comes to the end, we share the inspiring story of Edith Bailon, a senior architect in our Los Angeles studio, who offers a powerful lesson in self-confidence and community pride. Edith Bailon was a few months shy of graduation when an architect visited her Los Angeles high school. It was […]

Since launching in 2019, Gateway Tradeport in Pontoon Beach, Ill. has become home to 2.7 million square feet of distribution space. That after Contegra Construction Co. completed its fourth large distribution center at Northpoint Development’s 600-acre master planned industrial community. The new one million-square-foot Gateway Tradeport IV is built on a speculative basis to serve […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  A proposed street widening for East Madison Avenue in Oakland that could threaten nearly a dozen trees isn’t sitting well with some residents. At last week’s board meeting, City Engineer Grant Stecher presented a preliminary plan for the project to remove the crowning in the middle of the street that’s causing drainage […]

From Construction Dive:  Researchers and other experts expect millions of new construction jobs in coming months due to the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. That’s in addition to the 407,000 unfilled jobs in the construction industry now. But where will those workers come from? Immigrants have played a […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  Big changes may be in store for the Des Peres City Hall, Public Safety Building and the Public Works Street Maintenance Garage. The Des Peres Board of Aldermen on Monday night approved two resolutions that could start the process. The first resolution appoints Navigate Building Solutions as a consultant for the Street […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  A new city commission will hold a public hearing Tuesday over whether it should approve tax incentives to pay for public infrastructure related to two commercial developments worth around $2.5 billion. The tax increment financing, or TIF, would use some of the tax revenue generated by the private developments to pay for […]

by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Construction Forum On Dec. 6, the Forum will host the concluding segment of our 18-month, six-part series on systems change for an inclusive workforce. Online registration for the event, which is being held at the LiUNA Event Center on South Lindbergh, is free to attend and is now open for […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Developers have lined up financing for an anticipated $3 billion in future development in the 216-acre area that includes Chesterfield Mall, but would not be able to build the projects without an estimated $300 million in tax-increment financing, according to redevelopment plans released by the city. The Chesterfield TIF Commission […]

In the latest round of allocations announced by the U.S. Treasury Department on Friday, St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) was selected to receive $50 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) to assist local development projects. Since 2004, SLDC has been awarded 12 allocations totaling an incredible $543 million in tax credit authority. “This […]

Christie Brinkman, director, design-build at Castle Contracting, LLC, has been recognized by two national publications for her outstanding leadership across the local A/E/C industry and broader St. Louis community. Building Design + Construction selected Brinkman for its “40 Under 40” list of achievers for 2022, and Engineering News-Record has included her on the ENR Midwest […]

Monday (Oct. 31) Greater St. Louis, Inc. circulated a white paper to members of the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority Commissioners and the leadership of St. Louis City and County. The document benchmarked  potential methodologies for stewarding the $541M in funds realized from the record legal settlement with the St. Louis Rams and the […]

IMPACT Strategies has added two new staff members at its Fairview Heights, IL headquarters: Melissa Rogers as Senior Accountant, and Debbie Nelson as Office Administrator. Melissa Rogers holds a master’s degree in accountancy from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Arkansas. Prior to joining IMPACT Strategies, Rogers worked […]

From Rethinking The Future: A client invests in their project/s, but what if coordination problems with architects, engineers, consultants, and others occur? Who will help to fill the void that is coordination? A construction manager will be the bridge, and a Construction Management career is a correct path to follow. From the making of the pyramids […]

From Industry Week: The skilled trades have been in a state of crisis for close to a decade, and this has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Only 70 out of 100 positions are being filled, translating into 2.4 million unfilled positions in manufacturing and an estimated $2.5 trillion of lost economic value over the past […]

From Re- Journal: Rising interest rates, soaring materials costs and the impact of inflation dominated much of the discussion during the 5th annual St. Louis Commercial Real Estate Summit held Oct. 20 at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac by REjournals. The event featured the top names in the St. Louis commercial real estate market, all of […]

From Ladue News: In August, the Foundation for Strengthening Families unveiled its plan to completely overhaul St. Louis’s West End neighborhood with the construction of a multibuilding, multimillion-dollar project. Dubbed the Show Me Family Zone, the effort will introduce programming and other services that are designed not only to rebuild the area but also to re-imagine […]

From St. Louis Business Journal: Construction is underway on the $200 million redevelopment of the former MetLife office campus in south St. Louis County, with a homebuilder selected to erect the first single-family houses at the site. First announced last year by St. Charles-based developer Propper Construction Services, the Tesson Ridge development at 13045 Tesson Ferry Road in unincorporated […]

From Rethinking The Future: Since the 19th century and until today, architecture continues to evolve. New currents and new styles have resulted in a relative evolution and immense development in construction techniques, which themselves have been achieved by the development of new materials. The Industrial Revolution These material innovations begin with the Industrial Revolution towards the […]