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This week Forum drone photographer Louis Kelly, owner of Drone Eagle, LLC, captures progress on the Avenir apartment complex currently under construction at the intersection of Delmar and I-170. Gray Design Group is the architect and Holland Construction Services is the general contractor on the 330,000-sq.-ft. complex. Located in University City Avenir is a four-story […]

Transportation – both multi-modal freight and people-moving systems – is a cornerstone of success in metropolitan areas. It influences various aspects of urban life, including economic development, quality of life, and environmental sustainability. On the morning of June 20th, the next installment of Construction Forum’s 2024 program series “Building a Strong Core: Rebuilding St. Louis […]

Midas Hospitality is advancing its growth strategy with the addition of David Clayton as the firm’s first chief investment officer. Clayton has nearly 40 years of experience in finance, most recently serving as senior vice president, private markets at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Inc. He will now focus on raising capital for Midas as […]

Poettker Industrial Services, a woman-owned utility, energy, and infrastructure contractor, is excited to announce the promotion of Blake Langenhorst to Project Manager. Langenhorst joined Poettker Industrial in 2023 as a Project Engineer and most recently served in the role of Senior Project Engineer. He has eight years of experience in the construction industry. Langenhorst received […]

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 First Alert 4:  After leasing a Lincoln County facility for the past 13 years, The Boone Center Inc. has purchased the building, making way for an expansion of the manufacturing facility. BCI employs 40 people at the current facility, which spans 23,000 square feet. Once the expansion is complete, the footprint will measure nearly […]

From West Newsmagazine:  On May 13, St. Louis County Executive Dr. Sam Page signed a contract to hire Wright Construction Services to build a new state-of-the-art public safety facility in Maryland Heights. The new facility will be built with $46 million in federal relief funds received from the state of Missouri and St. Louis County, […]

From West Newsmagazine:  Some development projects planned for Town Center in Wildwood have been delayed for various reasons, and Director of Planning Joe Vicnich gave an update on these projects at the Planning & Zoning (P&Z) meeting on May 6. Greenberg is a mixed-use development with 189 multiple-family units, 14 single-family detached homes and pickleball […]

From Bloomberg:  The new professional soccer stadium that opened last year on the western edge of downtown St. Louis stands apart from most sports venues being built in the US today. The 22,423-seat facility, known as CityPark, was built with relatively modest public subsidies. And instead of looming as a massive megastructure surrounded by parking […]

From REjournals:  St. Louis’ KAI has been honored with a pair of St. Louis Business Journal accolades: Best Places to Work and the Community Impact Award. Nearly 200 nominations were submitted for the newspaper’s 2024 Best Places to Work Awards program. Participating companies and their employees completed surveys administered by a third-party surveyor, Quantum Workplace, […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Pitt Development Group LLC has sued Mercy Health, accusing the health system of halting construction projects because it perceived the Springfield, Missouri-based firm as a “whistleblower.” The lawsuit filed Jan. 25 in Greene County Circuit Court seeks to recover in excess of $9 million that Pitt Development Group (PDG) said […]

From Forbes:  In the landscape of education options, the pursuit of career readiness has evolved from a mere aspiration to a non-negotiable imperative. According to a recent national survey by YouScience, a company specializing in college and career readiness, 75% of high school graduates from the classes of 2019 through 2022 feel unprepared to make […]

Saint Louis County is excited to announce the groundbreaking for a new $10 million hangar complex at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in Chesterfield. The groundbreaking will be held on June 7 at 10 a.m. at 18460 Olive Street Road in Chesterfield. The opening of the Spirit Sky Club marks a significant step in addressing […]

There’s been a lot of awareness created about workplace mental health in the past two years that it’s clearly time to move to action. That was the mission that was delivered loud and clear Wednesday morning to the 66 persons in attendance Wednesday for a two-hour program presented by Aetna, Construction Forum, and the AFL-CIO […]

The U-Haul Center in Wentzville goes vertical with IMPACT Strategies, Inc. at the helm as the Construction Manager. IMPACT’s strong leadership during the preconstruction phase services early sitework activities were completed to optimize the project timeline. With concrete foundations being poured, underground rough-ins and CMU elevator shafts nearing completion, construction is advancing swiftly. The new […]

Representatives of the St. Louis region’s world-class multimodal freight network and the barge industry were featured panelists on May 16 at FreightWeekSTL 2024 and shared details on the latest trends in freight movement through the region by rail, river, roads and runways. The panelists also highlighted the continuing investments supporting the tremendous optionality that exists […]

The first of five planned distribution facilities is completed at NorthPoint Development’s $129 million Lakeside Logistics Center in St. Peters, Mo. Contegra Construction built the 490,000-square-foot distribution center at the 190-acre site. It will capitalize on its proximity to Highway 370 and Interstate 70 and is just 15 minutes from St. Louis Lambert International Airport. […]

Tarlton Corp., St. Louis’ largest women-owned general contracting and construction management firm, implemented daily safety initiatives on jobsites and “handed out” fun and educational activities about safety in the workplace for youngsters of the firm’s employees in conjunction with Construction Safety Week. The Tarlton project team, including subcontractors, attends a fall protection demonstration by Shur-Sales […]

HDA, a nationally recognized architectural, interiors and master planning firm, was selected to design a new 385,000 SF distribution center for RoadOne IntermodaLogistics in Summerville, South Carolina. The cross-dock facility will include 32-foot clearance, 100 dock doors, one drive-in door and parking for 364 trucks and 138 cars. The building’s exterior is infused with accents […]

The latest milestones for a series of high-tech solutions impacting the global movement of freight on rail and waterways were highlighted during the opening session of FreightWeekSTL 2024, an annual event hosted by the St. Louis Regional Freightway. Innovation Day at FreightWeekSTL featured Dr. Noel Hacegaba, Chief Operating Officer of Port of Long Beach; Jason […]