From St. Louis Business Journal: A developer is planning a new warehouse complex in St. Charles County. Wabash Center, a new four-building industrial development, is under consideration in O’Fallon, Missouri, city records show. The project, to be developed by Tempest Properties on 9.25 acres the company owns at T.R. Hughes Boulevard and East Wabash Avenue, […]
From The Intelligencer:Â The village has undergone substantive changes in the past year: Two sizable retail and mixed-use areas have been carved out of former farmland and a tree nursery to become Meridian Plaza and Orchard Town Center (OTC), respectively. For 2024, Glen Carbon Mayor Bob Marcus expects that kind of growth to continue. According […]
From NEXT STL: By Richard Bose: In September SSM Health officials announced plans for a new Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital at the corner of Grand and Chouteau in the Tiffany neighborhood. It would replace the current facility further south on Grand. They submitted a $300M building permit application last week. They plan to have it […]
From NPR:Â Minority- and women-owned businesses and contractors won just 17% of the $195 million that St. Louis County spent in contracts between 2017 and 2021, according to an independent report commissioned by the county. Arizona-based Keen Independent Research concluded that 40% of those contracts should have been fulfilled by minority- and women-owned businesses, according […]
by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Construction Forum Last Thursday (January 25th) a celebration was held at the LiUNA Event Center on South Lindbergh Blvd. to mark the retirement of Ronny Griffin. He retired as president and a business agent with Laborers Local 110 – the 9th largest union local in the St. Louis region. St. […]
From Bloomberg: Two years ago, a Montana think tank called the Frontier Institute released a new tool to help push the group’s advocacy for pro-housing reforms: a zoning atlas, one of the first of its kind. The atlas used parcel-level data to analyze local regulations that restrict how and where homes can be built, an […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A vacant commercial building once targeted for demolition that has been called “one of the last developable buildings downtown,” could receive city incentives to be converted to an adult day care. The first two floors of the five-story red brick building at 1105 Olive St. would be turned into an […]
From Utility Dive:Â Two winters ago, a deadly storm crippled Texas. The ice storm hammered the electric grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of citizens without power, freezing in the cold. In their final report, the Texas Department of Health and Human Services put the death toll at 246. About two-thirds of the deaths were due […]
Professional Installers, Inc. (Pi), a leading provider of office furniture installation services, proudly announces its 40th anniversary. Since 1984, Pi has been at the forefront of delivering top-notch office furniture solutions, earning a national reputation for excellence and reliability in the industry. Over the past four decades, the company has witnessed remarkable growth and success, […]
Brinkmann Constructors has invested in food industry expertise with the addition of food construction veteran Charles Hirschi to its team as executive director of food and beverage. Thirty one years ago Hirshi founded St. Louis Ficon (an acronym for Food Industry Construction), a firm specializing in building solutions for clients in the food and beverage […]
Thomas “Tom” Wischmeyer, 56, a fixture in the St. Louis electrical industry and vice president at Guarantee Electrical Company for many years, passed away on Friday, January 5, 2024. Mr. Wischmeyer, a veteran of the United States Army, was an enthusiastic outdoorsman, jack of all trades and above all else a dedicated husband, father, and […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â An architecture and interior design firm based in New Hampshire is moving its St. Louis office to Clayton. Market Square Architects PLLC will move from an office in Tower Grove South to downtown Clayton, the firm said in a news release. The new office is located in the Regus coworking […]
From St. Louis Magazine: By Chris Krehmeyer: I’ve written a lot about the work of Beyond Housing and our partners in transforming the many under-resourced communities in North St. Louis County—and why reversing decades of decline and poverty in these communities is vital for the success of the greater St. Louis region. In addition to […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:Â A dispute between a neighborhood association and a nonprofit has delayed a development that would house families of veterans hospitalized at the John Cochran VA Medical Center. A city board tabled its decision on Tuesday to sell four properties to the Friends of Fisher House St. Louis for its $10 million […]
From St. Louis Magazine:Â Constance Vale works at the nexus of art, technology, and architecture, and creates new ways of making communities beautiful, livable, and interesting. Vale, an associate professor and chair of undergraduate architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, is among the architects designing a house for the On Olive redevelopment project, a […]
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:Â While Glen Carbon’s newest subdivision got its preliminary plat and rezoning approved Tuesday by the village’s building and development panel, not everything about it was smooth sailing. Hidden Hills, if it gets final approval, will turn from agricultural and forested land to 104 single-family home sites built in two separate phases. […]
From Call Newspapers:Â Oakville Middle School and Wohlwend Elementary will get upgraded secure entry vestibules this summer. The Mehlville School District Board of Education voted unanimously Jan. 18 to approve a $1.026 million dollar bid for Aspire Construction Services to upgrade both the entry vestibules at Oakville Middle and Wohlwend Elementary. The bid includes professional, […]
From St. Louis Magazine: There are two weeks left to vote online for how you think the city should invest the Rams money (i.e., the $250 million the city won in its suit against the NFL over the Rams departure). This is not a binding vote. Rather, it’s a narrowed-down list of 20 ideas that […]
From St. Louis Business Journal:Â Tourism agency Explore St. Louis is seeking $20 million more from the city of St. Louis for work on the expansion of the America’s Center tourism complex downtown, which officials said would bring the tab so far to $260 million. The money would come from interest on the city’s Rams […]
From Construction Dive:Â After numerous project wins in the manufacturing, infrastructure and healthcare construction sectors last year, Chicago-based Clayco plans to further expand its operations in St. Louis. The construction firm originally moved out of the city more than a decade ago, relocating its headquarters to Chicago in 2013. Since then, the company has begun […]
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