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From St. Louis Public Radio: Since 2013, Illinois American Water has added 85,000 new drinking and waste water customers in the Metro East, as the company’s footprint now sprawls from Waterloo in the south to Grafton in the north. A state law passed in 2013 allowed private water companies to impose rate hikes on customers […]

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Tarlton Corp. has promoted Josh Narup to senior project manager. Narup has over two decades of expertise in the industry and joined Tarlton as a project engineer in 2016. His work at the firm includes multiple projects at Washington University in St. Louis and the award-winning $46 million core and shell renovation of the former […]

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The ULI St. Louis Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDI) is now accepting applications for its 2025 program, a two-phase curriculum designed to expand opportunities for women and professionals of color in real estate development. The program runs 14 sessions in total and provides participants with hands-on experience developing a project plan, financial pro forma, and […]

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The Association of Medical Facility Professionals (AMFP) Greater St. Louis Chapter is inviting members and partners to an exclusive hard-hat tour of the new Family Care Health Centers project, currently under construction by Kadean Construction. The tour, set for Wednesday, September 17th, offers participants an inside look at how this project is advancing healthcare access […]

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by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum Gross Mechanical Contracting (GMC) and Pipe and Duct Systems (PDS), which Gross acquired in January of 2019, were placed under receivership Monday by Judge Brian May in St. Louis County Circuit Court. A suit filed Aug. 29th by Triad Bank alleged that mismanagement of the mechanical contracting firm […]

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From St. Louis Public Radio: A consulting firm created in response to the May 16 EF3 tornado that ripped through the city won a $1 million contract Wednesday aimed at aiding tornado recovery in north St. Louis. The St. Louis Development Corporation’s board of directors approved the contract with Kea Point Solutions, a firm that […]

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From St. Louis Magazine: A developer whose proposal for a 24/7 self-storage facility at a prominent intersection in the Lafayette Square neighborhood was shot down earlier this year is not giving up his plan. But this time, he may have found a way around the neighborhood’s disapprobation. Tom Graddy had put forward the proposal for […]

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Mary Lamie serves as the go-to source on the St. Louis region’s role in transportation and logistics. As executive vice president of multimodal enterprises for Bi-State Development, she leads the St. Louis Regional Freightway. Future of Transportation On Friday, Sept. 5, Lamie delivered a TEDx St. Louis talk titled Future of Transportation during the Future […]

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Bond Architects has announced that team member Breanna Kolk has received her architecture license. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Breanna Kolk has been working in the AEC industry for 6 years. Her diverse design experience includes the education, municipal, and government sectors. She has played an integral role in many of Bond Architects’ […]

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From St. Louis Magazine: The announcement this week that homegrown St. Louis startup C2N Diagnostics is roughly tripling the size of its local operations suggests a momentum for the regional innovation ecosystem that supports similar bioscience upstarts. C2N is set to become the anchor tenant of a $100 million development project backed by Washington University […]

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From Autonomy Institute: Bob Clark, the founder and executive chairman of Clayco—a leading design-build construction firm based in Chicago—has played a pivotal role in advancing drone technology within the construction industry, emphasizing innovation to improve efficiency, safety, and project management. His leadership began prominently with the establishment of Uplift Data Partners in 2015, a drone […]

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The City of St. Louis Water Division has issued RFPs for a variety of services: Mechanical Systems Service Contract The City operates two water treatment plants, an administrative building, a pipeyard facility, two reservoir facilities and a number of remote valve sites which may require service. There is no available equipment list due to the […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: When a mile-wide tornado hit St. Louis on May 16, DeAmon White hopped in his car and rushed home. As he navigated downed trees and power lines, turning his 10-minute commute into a three-hour slog, he worried whether his family, neighbors, and home made it through unscathed. When he turned […]

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From West Newsmagazine: Community members gathered recently at the Chesterfield YMCA to celebrate a $9.2 million renovation that reimagines the nearly 60-year-old facility for a growing and changing community. The project is part of the Gateway Region YMCA’s five-year capital campaign. “The city of Chesterfield continues to experience exciting and explosive growth and development, especially […]

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From West Newsmagazine: Doris Frazier, 94, has been fighting to see the Westland Acres community developed for decades. After years of denials, another developer has come forward to try to make that happen. Sterling Engineering, on behalf of Provision Land Development LLC, submitted a request to rezone a 56.31-acre tract of land north of Strecker […]

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The developer behind the revamp of Jefferson Arms is eyeing the acquisition of another downtown property. An affiliate of Alterra Worldwide has the Syndicate Trust building, at 10th and Olive streets, under contract to buy, the company confirmed this week. The deal is expected to close by the end of the […]

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From Leader Publications: The Jefferson County Council voted unanimously Monday night to join a regional partnership to build a $50 million law enforcement training facility in St. Louis County. Two council members, Brian Haskins (District 1, High Ridge) and Scott Seek (District 5, Festus), changed their minds and voted for the partnership after voting against […]

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From St. Louis Public Radio: Ameren is planning to build its largest solar facility yet in mid-Missouri, in part to power data centers. The solar field would be constructed next to the Callaway nuclear plant in Callaway County. It would be a 250 megawatt center, which could power about 44,000 homes. That would make it […]

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The nonprofit Green House Venture broke ground today on the construction of a new 9,500 square-foot Education Center at 3966-3968 DeTonty Street in St. Louis that will provide innovative urban agriculture, bioscience, nutrition and dietetics learning opportunities for hundreds of 4th – 8th grade students at four nearby schools, with plans to eventually expand to […]

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From TCT Magazine: Two ‘fire-resistant’ homes have been built with A1-rated 3D printed concrete walls in Buena Vista, Colorado by VeroTouch and South Main. The walls of the ‘VeroVista’ houses are said to offer the highest level of fire resistance and do not fuel combustion at any stage. This was a pre-requisite for the houses […]

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