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Crestwood Designates Calvert Property as ‘Blighted’

3 years 2 months ago
From Call Newspapers:  The Crestwood Board of Aldermen approved an ordinance June 28 designating Calvert’s Auto Express, 9415 Watson Road, as a blighted area according to state statute. The property around Calverts, the former Crestwood mall, is being redeveloped into a mixed-used development featuring a Dierbergs grocery store, other retail and residential. Ground was broken […]
Dede Hance

How Dream Builders 4 Equity is Investing in Young People

3 years 2 months ago
From Ladue News:  A St. Louis-based nonprofit organization is shifting the way young people think – and investing in the metro area along the way. Founded in 2016, Dream Builders 4 Equity seeks to provide workforce development training for people ages 14 to 24 and recently started planning to transform a newly acquired property into […]
Dede Hance

Safety Tech Boosts Productivity, Contractors Say

3 years 2 months ago
From ConstructionDive:  As Hensel Phelps looks for better ways to improve on all things safety, the multinational contractor is piloting technology solutions like Edify, an app designed to create safety-minded culture within construction companies. Every morning, Hensel Phelps workers log in and answer a seemingly simple question: Why do you want to be safe today? […]
Dede Hance

Key Steps to Prepare for Transportation Funding Opportunities

3 years 2 months ago
by Lexi Elio, Burns & McDonnell The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) promises to inject $1.2 trillion into fixing the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, which includes billions of dollars set aside for transportation projects. This additional funding is an opportunity municipalities, counties and local communities can’t ignore. But with so many new programs, it can be difficult […]
Dede Hance

The Need for More Resilient Supply Chains

3 years 2 months ago
From Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:  “How can firms and how can governments internalize uncertainty of a future shock and what can they do today to hedge the risks of something happening in the future?” asks Ana Maria Santacreu, research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in her latest discussion about […]
Dede Hance

Emergency Preparedness for Extreme Weather Events

3 years 2 months ago
by Chad Price at Marsh McLennan Agency:  Emergency preparedness is a topic we traditionally publicize in the spring, and for good reason. This is the season where tornadoes and hurricanes spring up and remind us that Mother Nature loves to flex her strength now and then. However, this last winter in the mid-west has shown […]
Dede Hance

Pre- and Post-Project Communication and Measurement Needed by DEIs

3 years 2 months ago
by Ron Unterreiner, Founder, PEOPLE of Construction Editor’s note: “Opportunity Report” is a regular feature of ConstructForSTL.org — a column by PEOPLE of Construction Founder Ron Unterreiner that we’re calling “Opportunity Report”. Martin Luther King wrote, “The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.” Dr. King noted that it does no good […]
Tom Finan

Forum Drone: “Crestwood Crossing” Rises Phoenix-Like From Former Mall Site

3 years 2 months ago
Editor’s Note: This week, Forum Drone Pilot/Photographer Louis Kelly of Drone Eagle LLC provides an eagle-eye view of the site for the “Crestwood Crossing,” development, former location of the Crestwood Plaza shopping center. After lurching along for almost a decade, the reboot of the former Crestwood Plaza location on Watson Road in Crestwood is beginning […]
Tom Finan