From St. Louis Business Journal: The St. Louis area, with more than 60 breweries, will soon be adding another. Construction on Shoehorn Brewery, located at 225 E. Main St. in Belleville, is nearly complete, with plans to open soon. The brewery needs some finishing touches and is just awaiting clearance from the state to begin serving, […]
From KSDK: St. Louis County Police Chief Kenneth Gregory told his fellow commanders he found out construction was going to get started on two new precinct stations when he turned on the news and saw County Executive Sam Page making the announcement on Sept. 21. The projects have been in the works for more than five […]
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Four Missouri tradeswomen traveled to London to participate in the 2022 Tradeswomen Building Bridges (TBB) conference to inspire more women in the United Kingdom and internationally to build careers in the construction trades. They were among nearly 50 delegates from North America who represented the diversity of women working […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The Bass Pro Shops location that’s under construction is getting bigger, even before it opens. The new store in Sunset Hills, originally projected to open in the second half of 2022, will now take up the entire shopping center at 3600 S. Lindbergh Blvd., with the Springfield, Missouri-based outdoor retailer […]
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 hosted a ribbon cutting at its state-of-the-art training center at 3755 Corporate Trail Drive to mark the official opening of the facility. The training center opened in the summer of 2020 but with COVID-19 restrictions, the official grand opening was delayed until Sept. 22. […]
From Smart Cities Dive: The U.S. Department of Transportation will need to staff up to manage the IIJA’s many projects, but states and cities also face staffing shortages, the inspector general said. The U.S. Department of Transportation needs to recruit, develop and retain an expanded staff to oversee the implementation of $660 billion in funding […]
From Commercial Observer: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a climate bill by another name, and a historic one at that. The legislation, passed in August and signed into law by President Joe Biden, is designed to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint by jump-starting innovation and adoption of cleaner energy sources. In particular, the legislation […]
From Gensler: Throughout the pandemic, we have seen more and more property improvement plans, and for good reason: Renovating and refreshing brands with existing assets can sometimes be more palatable for developers and investors than ground-up hotel construction in an unsteady and uncertain market. Over the past few years, hotel developers have shown particular interest […]
From FacilitiesNet: Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “Great Resignation” that has followed, there has been a mass exodus of workers across all industries. To put it in perspective, in September 2021, the same month federal unemployment insurance benefits ended, 4.4 million U.S. workers quit their jobs. One month later, another 4.2 million employees […]
This week Louis Kelly Construction Forum drone photographer and owner of Drone Eagle LLC, captured images of “The Preserve,” a residential project which is part of the new development taking place down the Watson Road corridor from Sappington Road to MacKenzie Road. When the Zorensky brothers opened Crestwood Plaza at the intersection of Sappington and […]
by Ron Unterreiner, Founder, PEOPLE of Construction Editor’s note: “Opportunity Report” is a regular feature of ConstructForSTL.org — a column by PEOPLE of Construction Founder Ron Unterreiner that we’re calling “Opportunity Report”. Martin Luther King wrote, “The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.” Dr. King noted that it does no good […]
From Gensler: The world is warming at an alarming rate, and consumers have set their sights on flashy, eye-catching products that offer high-tech solutions to reduce carbon emissions. Electric vehicles and smart thermostats are examples of incredible technologies that will drive us toward more sustainable lifestyles. These high-tech solutions generate their own demand; the shiny […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: In the early morning hours of July 26, many area residents awoke to floodwater filling their homes, or to the din of blaring car alarms from vehicles getting overtaken by murky brown water. Too much rain was falling far too fast. The weather system dumped more than 9 inches on St. […]
From FacilitiesNet: Electrification of commercial buildings, such as office, educational, and retail facilities, has not seen the same momentum as in residential and apartment buildings. For commercial building electrification, advances in technology and fundamental questions of technical feasibility, cost, and value continue to be a challenge. But this is beginning to change. States like New […]
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 The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Four new businesses opened in Glen Carbon during August, according to a Sept. 27 update by Building and Zoning Administrator Stacy Jose at a building and development committee meeting. In August, the village saw the opening of a tobacco and bait shop, a general cosmetology center, a pediatric therapy center and […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The western border of Atchison County, Missouri, follows the twisting path of the Missouri River. Acres of corn and soy fields once lined its shores, but after a nearby levee suffered seven breaches in a 2019 flood, the cropland was ruined. Instead of rebuilding the levee and replanting the crops, Atchison […]
From Lincoln News: The next chapter of education in Lincoln County was written in the soil on Sept. 29 with the official groundbreaking of Troy South Elementary School. Board members, as well as local children, shoveled the first bit of dirt to celebrate the opening of construction for the new school, which is expected to be […]
A new Carmody MacDonald P.C. sign has gone up on the exterior of a high-rise office tower, known as the PNC Center, at 120 S. Central Avenue in downtown Clayton after the law firm recently expanded its space inside the building to include more than 40,000 square feet over three floors. Carmody MacDonald moved into […]
Contegra Construction Co. is targeting a year-end completion for the newest distribution facility at Blue River Commerce Center in Kansas City, Mo. The 390,943-square-foot distribution center will be the fourth of seven buildings planned at the 226-acre Blue River Class A industrial campus launched by NorthPoint Development in 2021. The South Kansas City Chamber of […]
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