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From St. Louis Public Radio: Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis will be upgraded by October with more shade trees, better lighting and a newer drainage system. The nearly $2.7 million project, which began Monday, is made possible through a partnership among the City of St. Louis, Gateway Arch Park Foundation and Great Rivers Greenway. […]

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From Offsite Builder: Although Offsite Builder magazine primarily focuses on prefabricating homes inside factories, some innovative companies are bringing the factory to the jobsite. They’re doing it with advanced robotics. Here, we’ll look at examples of four very different jobsite robots. They lay bricks, plan layouts, drill holes in concrete, finish drywall and paint. Hadrian’s […]

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From WashU’s Student Life: A study from WashU’s Brown School has identified gaps in St. Louis’ emergency preparedness and response, including a lack of funding and a disconnect between community organizers and government. The study was put together by graduate students at the Brown School before the tornado on May 16, 2025, but it was […]

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by Dr. John Gaal This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks at how one state’s Governor has misgivings concerning the endorsement of Sports Gambling; to how PFAS chemicals used for stain resistance in carpets has poisoned the water supply in southeast sections of the USA; to a recent study acknowledging the psychological hazards […]

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Melissa Sheehan has joined Wiegmann Associates as Payroll Specialist. Sheehan is responsible for efficiently managing the payroll process and ensures compliance with tax law. Sheehan brings nine years of payroll experience and holds an Associate of Arts and Science (AAS) in Business Administration from St. Charles Community College. Wiegmann Associates is a St. Louis-based mechanical […]

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Attainable housing doesn’t move forward by talking — it moves forward when people build. On Wednesday, March 25, from 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM Construction Forum brings together practitioners who are solving for the real-world challenges of financing, construction, and neighborhood context to deliver attainable housing at scale. The program is free to attend, but […]

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Kadean Construction has realigned its executive leadership team and consolidated its operations into Industrial, Healthcare, and Commercial Business Units to strengthen the company’s long-term strategy for delivering complex projects with clarity, consistency, and early client engagement across the country. Aaron Retherford has been promoted to President of Kadean Construction, assuming select responsibilities previously held by […]

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From Missouri Independent: “The Negro should be granted equality…On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man is entered at the starting line in a race three hundred years after another man, the first would have to perform some impossible feat to catch up with […]

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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A developer wants to transform portions of the American Car Foundry property along the riverfront here into a sprawling complex of apartments, townhomes and restaurants. But the plans have angered residents and historic preservationists who attended the City Council meeting Tuesday night in hopes of convincing city leaders to block the […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: The St. Louis-based parent of several residential and commercial services businesses is moving its local operations to a larger facility. HB Solutions Group, parent of Hoffmann Bros., a provider of HVAC and other services, as well as Ferguson Roofing and Blue Sky Plumbing, is relocating its St. Louis operations base […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: Editor’s note: The debate over whether the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County should combine continues to flood into my inbox. It started with a proposal by St. Louis attorney and developer Jarrad Holst to put the city-county merger to a vote to combine the governments in name […]

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From St. Louis Public Radio: After months of research, St. Louis officials say newly proposed zoning rules would restrict where data centers can be built in the city and set strict regulations for building larger ones. The proposals are a response to a gold rush-like dash by developers across the country, including in the St. […]

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by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum Across the country, cities are rediscovering something they have owned all along: land. In recent commentary and research, George W. McCarthy, president and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, argues that publicly held land may be one of the most powerful — and underused — tools […]

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From First Alert 4: It is a hard reality check for the St. Louis region. Dilapidated buildings. Neglected highways. Trash strewn through streets and neighborhoods. It is a regional problem for St. Louis, and it’s the first impression we make on people coming here from across the region, the country and the world. Even in […]

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From St. Louis Magazine: On a recent frigid weekday morning Charles Goldman stood inside the lobby of downtown’s AT&T Tower, admiring the space and envisioning what could possibly be next for the long-vacant building. Despite the cold interior—both physically (Goldman’s breath condensed in the unheated building) and metaphorically (all that empty space)—Goldman chooses to focus […]

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From The Guardian: From afar, the low-rise homestead perched in the Wiltshire countryside may look like any other rural outpost, but step closer and the texture of the walls reveal something distinct from the usual facade of cement, brick and steel. The Rammed Earth House in Cranborne Chase is one of the few projects in […]

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From Belleville News-Democrat: A standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 people packed The Mill community center in Granite City last week to get information on a controversial proposal to allow a tech company to build a data center. Opinions were plentiful and divided. Trade union leaders spoke in favor of the facility, touting it as a […]

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From Politico: The House on Monday night passed its bipartisan housing package aimed at increasing home supply and affordability, setting up an uncertain effort to merge the measure with a Senate housing bill. House lawmakers approved by a vote of 390-9 the Housing in the 21st Century Act under suspension of the rules, a fast-track […]

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From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: Updates will soon be coming to the Dardenne Greenway section of the ongoing Great Rivers Greenway trail. A virtual open house was hosted on Jan. 26 to display plans to update and improve the section of trail from Mexico Road to the Water’s Edge Banquet Center in St. Peters. Project Manager […]

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From The St. Louis American: Mill Creek Valley may have been bulldozed off the map in 1959, but its people are now telling the truth about what was lost. That truth will take center stage on Friday, February 6, when the St. Louis County Library hosts author Vivian Gibson and Missouri History Museum curator Gwen […]

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