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From STL Today: The Trump administration’s decision to cancel a $200 million federal grant for a $570 million battery component factory in north St. Louis drew condemnation Friday from the city’s Democratic congressman and one of Missouri’s top union leaders. The state’s Republican senators and governor, though, ducked the issue, as did St. Louis Mayor […]

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From KMOV: The St. Louis housing market continued to be difficult for buyers. Home prices remained high and homes go off the market quickly, sometimes just hours after being listed. It is an issue across the metro, but with the population growth in St. Charles County, it is magnified there. Officials there said developers are […]

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From Construction Dive: Rising costs and slowing deal flow are pressuring contractors’ pipelines, said Anirban Basu, chief economist at Associated Builders and Contractors, during an Oct. 8 webinar on construction’s outlook. Firms active in data center work report about 12 months of backlog, but high input and labor costs are putting a dent in contractors’ […]

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From St. Louis Public Radio: Earlier this month, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe spoke in front of a crowd at an annual summit on power held by the state’s Public Service Commission in Jefferson City. Data centers dominated his remarks. “Big talk seems to always come back to data centers, which is a piece of the […]

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From St. Louis Review: Ava Stillman stretched her measuring tape down the length of a 2×4, using a speed square tool to carefully mark where to make her cut. She needed a solid jack stud to support the header of the window she was framing out. Clad in work boots and safety glasses, this was […]

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From KMOV: The City of Cottleville is weighing whether to put a six-month moratorium on certain residential development proposals, giving the city time to work on its comprehensive plan. The city said the plan hasn’t been updated since 2001 and according to U.S. census data, its population has tripled in the last 20 years and […]

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud-computing provider, is hiring construction project managers for a major data center development in the St. Louis region — signaling continued momentum for high-tech infrastructure investment and union construction work in the metro area. The job postings on Amazon’s careers site list openings for Construction Manager and Senior […]

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From St. Louis Magazine: When Steve Smith, CEO of the development firm New + Found, thinks about the data center proposed for Midtown St. Louis, he can’t help but think of a previous plan for a different site that’s directly adjacent, the 15 acres that now hold City Foundry. A development firm wanted to tear […]

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From KMOV: The St. Charles County Planning and Zoning Commission tied in a vote of an application for a development along Highway N, south of the intersection at Perry Cate Boulevard. The vote Wednesday night means the commission is not recommending that the St. Charles County Council approve the application when it takes it up […]

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From DowntownSTL: In cutting the ribbon to celebrate the completion of construction on 7th Street project between Ballpark Village and Washington Avenue, leaders from the City and regional business and civic organizations highlighted the public-private partnerships driving real change and momentum in Downtown St. Louis. “The downtowns that people flood to are not the ones […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: The owner of the Post Building in downtown St. Louis wants to buy an adjacent city park, with an eye toward converting it to parking. The StarWood Group, which bought the former St. Louis Post-Dispatch building, 900 N. Tucker Blvd., and converted it into offices for Block and Scale AI, would […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: A development group currently building a $145 million apartment skyscraper in St. Louis has joined the development team for Des Peres’ first-ever apartment complex, pushing the project past the finish line for financing. Construction has begun on the $60 million Magnolia Ridge, a five-story, 182-unit apartment complex at 13431 Manchester […]

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From Colliers: The St. Louis Metro industrial market is experiencing mixed signals as it moves through 2025. Leasing activity slowed in Q3, totaling 1.26 million SF, down nearly 1 million SF YOY, though the Westport submarket remained a bright spot, accounting for nearly 58% of all leasing, driven by major deals including Amazon and Confluence […]

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by Ken Simonson, Chief Economist, AGC of America From AGC Data Digest: Changes in announced tariff rates, dates, and exclusions continued this week. President Trump today (Oct. 10) threatened higher tariffs on China. A 25% tariff on heavy trucks that he had posted would take effect on October 1 was later announced for October 14, […]

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by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum The U.S. Department of Energy’s funding rollback on alternative energy has thrown the future of ICL Group’s $574M LFP battery materials plant in St. Louis into doubt — along with work for major contractors and design teams already engaged. The planned ICL battery materials plant is planned for […]

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From Midwest Council ASA: Recent reports have highlighted serious concerns about the sale of substandard personal protective equipment (PPE) online, including through platforms such as TikTok Shop. Several products marketed as “safety shoes,” “safety belts,” and even respirators were recalled in the United Kingdom after failing basic safety tests. Although these recalls were outside the […]

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by James Loomis From St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis County has a choice. We can spend like we always have, or invest like a region that plans to matter 20 years from now. County Executive Sam Page has proposed using $59 million from the Rams settlement, alongside a new online sales tax, to plug a […]

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From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Trenton Lampkin, a Bricklayers Local 1 apprentice, has received a first-place award in the stone mason competition in the 2025 Bricklayers and Allied Crafts (BAC)/International Masonry Institute (IMI) International Apprentice Contest. Lampkin was one of 80 apprentices from the International BAC who showcased their talents in a bid to […]

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From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: In two weeks, on Oct. 30, the union-built St. Louis Gateway Arch will celebrate its 60th birthday with four days of activities Oct. 25-28. History will record a special highlight for St. Louis construction unions: not a single union trades person was killed despite the project’s complexity, its height […]

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From Waste Dive: David Keeling has been confirmed to lead the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as the assistant secretary of labor. The U.S. Senate voted 51-47 to approved his confirmation, along with a block of dozens of other nominees for other federal agencies, on Tuesday. Keeling is Amazon’s former director of road and transportation […]

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