From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Seizing one of downtown’s biggest vacant buildings will cost city officials more than they hoped. A court-appointed panel said Friday that the Railway Exchange building and its accompanying parking garage off Olive Street are worth $7.3 million, $2 million more than the city bid for the property. The news could complicate […]
From Urban Land: LONG AGO, places such as museums were solely for admiring art, libraries were for reading and borrowing books, and offices were for work. These days, the boundaries between places and their purposes are blurred. Architects, city planners, and developers have taken note and now intentionally design “third spaces” for unexpected places. For […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A year ago, the city of Kirkwood issued a request for proposals seeking developers’ ideas for two separate city-owned parking lots on Jefferson Avenue, near the historic train station that serves as the center of the suburban city’s downtown. Some of the most prominent developers in St. Louis responded with […]
From West Newsmagazine:Â Two developments proposed for Ellisville are targeting some of the last available large vacant parcels of land in the city, both on Old State Road. At its Dec. 18 meeting, the City Council reviewed the Regal Pines development from McBride Berra Land Company LLC, which will consist of 49 single-family detached residential […]
From The Construction Broadsheet:Â The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it will send approximately $4.4 billion of loans and grants to rural electric cooperatives around the country as part of the agency’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) Program. The clean energy funding, according to the USDA, will go towards projects that will […]
From Urban Land: Once overlooked as little more than open-air spaces for trailer parking, industrial outdoor storage (IOS) sites are emerging as a promising niche for their increasingly significant role in the e-commerce and logistics sectors and their potential to earn strong returns for investors. “The pandemic brought shifts in demographic trends, changes in consumption, […]
From Webster- Kirkwood Times: Kirkwood officials gave initial approval to a proposed expansion of a car dealership, but not before adding a new requirement to Lou Fusz Toyota’s plan. The Kirkwood City Council on Dec. 5 approved the first reading of a measure that permits Lou Fusz Toyota, 10725 Manchester Road, to expand its business […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A Cape Girardeau developer is proposing a big indoor sports facility, hotel, food truck park and new restaurants on a vacant site in St. Charles County. The project in O’Fallon, Missouri, referred to as the O’Fallon Sports Center in filings to the city, is being proposed by Andy Patel, owner […]
From Forbes:Â 2025 is almost upon us, and in the space of a few short years it feels like everything has changed in the workplace. After decades of college being promoted for every student, employers are now moving toward skills-first hiring that places a premium not on your college degree, but your actual skill set. […]
The St. Louis Region’s proactive stance on finding and funding critical transportation infrastructure continues to pay off, the latest report from the St. Louis Regional Freightway shows. “Recent investments and endeavors enhance the future competitiveness and connectivity of the bi-state St. Louis region and support future growth, particularly in targeted industry sectors such as aerospace, […]
The American Subcontractors Association (ASA) – Midwest Council will host its 23rd annual Meet the GC Expo on January 29, 2025 at the St. Charles Convention Center, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. The yearly event gives area subcontractors and all construction professionals the opportunity for valuable networking time with the premier STL metro area general […]
Jeffrey R. Murphy has been named president of Taylor Ridge Drilled Foundations, Inc. His appointment marks the completion of a 10-year acquisition process of the Taylor Ridge, IL-based company by members of the ownership team of Drilling Service Co. Inc. of St. Louis, MO. Jeffrey Murphy is also executive vice president of Drilling Service Co. […]
From Work Design: The musician Prince once said, “What’s missing from pop music is danger. There’s no excitement and mystery.” Replace music with the corporate office landscape and the sentiment still applies: there is a formulaic strategy that is pervasive, even as designers strive to create destination workplaces. The amenities race has run its course, […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Construction has started on a new $15 million family entertainment complex in Fenton, according to the project’s general contractor. The Wow! Family Edutainment is being built by Arco Construction at a property south of Gravois Bluffs in Fenton, off Highway 141. The 26,875-square-foot facility at 130 Fiedler Lane will have […]
by Dr. John Gaal Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum carries the Worker Wellness & Well-Being Blog as a regular feature. The […]
From Missouri Business Alert:Â Following a slow year in the U.S. housing market, experts expect that first-time homebuyers in Missouri may have greater access to financing programs and increased housing choices in 2025, though prices and mortgage rates may remain elevated. The U.S. housing market in 2024 experienced its slowest sales since 1995, when the […]
From MRN:Â Work is underway on two St. Charles County bridge projects scheduled to start in 2024. The Augusta Bottom Road Bridge and Femme Osage Creek Road Bridge projects both entered the design phase in 2022 and both recently received bid purchase approval at the Nov. 12 County Council meeting. The Augusta Bottom Road bridge […]
From Work Design: Have you ever found yourself in a space you couldn’t wait to get out of? Perhaps it was a noisy, bustling work environments with bold images and vibrant colors but no way to orient yourself. Or perhaps you were assigned to a spot in an open environment that was a sea of […]
From Area Development: You can’t raise real cows in Indiana. And, you can’t create fake cows in Alabama. This anti-everything sentiment can be observed across the U.S. Why? A new form of NIMBYism. The result? A challenging landscape for private sector investment and potential death knells for hundreds of communities. A few months ago, I […]
From REJournals: PACE Loan Group closed a $35 million C-PACE loan for a 300,000-square-foot studio complex in Chesterfield, Missouri, authorized by the St. Louis Clean Energy Development Board through the Missouri Energy Savings Program. This is Missouri’s largest PACE project financed to date. The facility, made up of five sound stages, is geared toward the […]
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