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The first vertical construction at the planned Gateway South district in downtown St. Louis is now moving forward. The project is being developed by Good Developments Group, Vault Partners, and The Millstone Company. “As a result of conversations with multiple prospective tenants, we’ve begun design and pre-construction for a 54,000-square-foot speculative industrial building at Gateway […]

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Sanford Sachtleben has joined the team of St. Louis based Architectural Metals Inc. (AMI) as an outside sales representative. He is owner of Sterling Architectural Products. AMI is the Midwest’s leading anodizing firm and is a sister company to Winco Window Company, a commercial aluminum window manufacturer. “Sanford joins our team with more than 30 […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: A proposal submitted to the city of Clayton Nov. 2 outlines a mixed-use development at 61 Topton Way, part of Caleres’ current headquarters site. It would consist of one six-story, 95,682-square-foot building with 29 condominium units over retail space and a parking garage. The site, at the corner of Topton […]

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From St. Louis Business Journal: A vacant 200,000-square-foot office building in St. Louis County has been sold twice in the last few months, each time for more than $5 million. The former Magellan Health Services building at 14100 Magellan Plaza in Maryland Heights first sold to an investor and then to a church, commercial real […]

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From Office of the Mayor of The City of St. Louis: Mayor Cara Spencer announced today that Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Director of St. Louis Lambert International Airport, will retire in the fall of 2026. Hamm-Niebruegge has served as Airport Director since January 2010, during which time she has led the airport through natural disaster, helped secure […]

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 St. Luke’s Hospital has broken ground on a new 15,000-square-foot medical building in St. Charles County, continuing the system’s strategy to bring outpatient and specialty care closer to where people live. The project is located at 5940 Mexico Road in St. Peters. The single-story facility will house specialty services, diagnostic capabilities, and advanced outpatient care. […]

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From Bob Clark Beyond: Every so often, humanity takes a leap that redefines what’s possible — the microprocessor, the internet, artificial intelligence. Now, we’re standing at the edge of another transformation that could change not just how we work, but how we think.Quantum computing feels like that next great leap. Traditional processors have powered incredible progress, […]

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From RE Journals: St. Louis’ KAI Build welcomed back Marisol Ramos as Project Manager at its St. Louis headquarters.  Ramos was previously an Assistant Project Manager for KAI 360 Construction Services in 2021 before transferring to the Build group until 2024. Ramos is a talented Project Manager with more than nine years of experience in the construction […]

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From The St. Louis American: The city of St. Louis, in partnership with Missouri Green Banc has received a $250,000 grant from the Municipal Investment Fund to develop public-private partnership plans for building an innovative pipeline of investments to bring down energy prices for St. Louisans. The Coalition for Green Capital, which is supported by […]

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From McKinsey & Company: For decades, the construction industry has wrestled with both rising demand and shrinking labor capacity. Productivity has stagnated, and the situation could soon worsen: Many workers are nearing retirement, and fewer young people are entering the field because of safety concerns, uncertainty about future prospects, and the physical intensity of construction […]

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From First Alert 4: Construction crews will begin infrastructure work Tuesday on the $2 billion Downtown Chesterfield project, marking the start of a development that promises to transform west St. Louis County. The project sits on the site of the former Chesterfield Mall, which closed 14 months ago.  Michael Staenberg, founder of the Staenberg Group, […]

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The Missouri Department of Transportation has opened the first completed segment of its statewide Improve I-70 program, cutting the ribbon on seven miles of reconstructed interstate between Route J and Route M in Callaway County. This marks the first visible progress in the multi-year, $2.8 billion effort to modernize and expand nearly 200 miles of […]

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A St. Louis-area contractor with ties to several local business and development ventures has pleaded guilty Nov. 4th in federal court to charges of wire fraud related to misuse of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Federal prosecutors said Cory Elliott used false statements to receive more than $1.7 million in PPP funds through multiple companies, […]

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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 […]

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From CityScene STL: Condos continue to be proposed and built in Clayton, especially along Topton Way, by the Mehlman family. Located at the southeast corner of Maryland and Topton Way, the site, which is currently home to a surface parking lot, has a new proposal for a 6-story condo building with retail space and 29 […]

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From KMOV: Construction crews will begin infrastructure work Tuesday on the $2 billion Downtown Chesterfield project, marking the start of a development that promises to transform west St. Louis County. The project sits on the site of the former Chesterfield Mall, which closed 14 months ago. Michael Staenberg, founder of the Staenberg Group, said the […]

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From Construction Dive: The images of the East Wing demolition at the White House stood in stark contrast to the modest alterations originally floated by the White House in July. When first announced to the public, President Donald Trump said the ballroom project “won’t interfere with the current building” and would sit “near it but […]

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St. Louis’ KAI Build welcomed back Marisol Ramos as Project Manager at its St. Louis headquarters. Ramos was previously an Assistant Project Manager for KAI 360 Construction Services in 2021 before transferring to the Build group until 2024. Ramos is a talented Project Manager with more than nine years of experience in the construction industry. […]

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From Hoodline: The City of Kirkwood has tapped Double Eagle Development to revamp its Public Works facility into a new multifamily living space, an announcement made after a rigorous RFP process. This 5.9-acre site is poised to blossom into an integrated community, uplifting the neighborhood with an emphasis on walkability and a communal spirit. According […]

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Byrne & Jones Construction has named Ryan Molen chief operating officer. Molen brings more than two decades of construction-industry leadership, most recently as senior vice president and St. Louis business unit leader at McCarthy Building Companies. In that role he oversaw major work across healthcare, education, commercial and advanced manufacturing in the Central/Midwest region. Molen’s […]

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