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Multi-Sports Complex Approved in Chesterfield

7 months 1 week ago
From West Newsmagazine:  Chesterfield is soon to get another multi-sport complex located east of Eatherton Road and south of Wings Corporate Drive. India Sports Association LLC submitted a request to rezone the 19.489-acre tract of land from “NU” Non-Urban District to “PI” Planned Industrial District. At its meeting Jan. 21 the Chesterfield City Council approved […]
Dede Hance

St. Louis Brewery Says It’s For Sale

7 months 1 week ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  Wellspent Brewing Co. in Midtown is looking for a buyer. Eben Shantz, owner of Wellspent at 2917 Olive St., said Monday on social media the business has been listed for sale. It has an asking price of $99,000, according to the for-sale listing. Shantz in 2019 acquired Wellspent and reopened […]
Dede Hance

Safety Surpasses All in Precision Metal Fabrication

7 months 1 week ago
From The Fabricator:  For years, industry advocates have been trumpeting the fact that this isn’t your father’s manufacturing. Shops today are cleaner, safer, and more high tech than ever. Manufacturing technology has become truly astounding, creating a very different industry—one based more on problem-solving and less on grunt work. The dark, dirty, and dangerous days […]
Dede Hance

Program Has Demolished 100+ City-Owned Buildings in Just Over a Year

7 months 1 week ago
From First Alert 4:  A city program administered through the St. Louis Development Corporation has knocked down more than 100 vacant buildings since its start in late 2023. Using $15 million in state ARPA funds, the Land Reutilization Authority began clearing abandoned structures last year in an effort to revitalize neighborhoods. On Monday SLDC invited […]
Dede Hance

Construction Spending Slips as Costs Rise Ahead of Tariffs

7 months 1 week ago
From Construction Dive:  Nonresidential construction spending ticked down 0.2% in December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.24 trillion, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released Monday. Spending declined in nine of the 16 nonresidential subcategories on a monthly basis. Public nonresidential spending fell 0.5%, while private nonresidential […]
Dede Hance

Trump floats US taking over Gaza Strip

7 months 1 week ago
President Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of the U.S. taking over the Gaza Strip, saying America should be responsible for clearing the territory of rubble and unexploded bombs and proposing an “economic development.” Trump’s remarks are some of his most extreme rhetoric regarding the future of the territory where nearly 2 million Palestinians live [...]
Laura Kelly

Video of police shootout in Soulard reveals dramatic arrest

7 months 1 week ago
Harrowing moments from a 2023 police shootout in Soulard are being revealed on video for the first time. The video is now available because the case closed with a conviction, at which point FOX 2 News requested the video under the Missouri Sunshine Law.
Chris Hayes

Clinton-Peabody Entering a New Phase of History

7 months 1 week ago
From The St. Louis American:  One of the city’s oldest and most historic public housing developments will soon be reborn and redeveloped into a model community which will include 350 new mixed-income apartments and affordable homes. Construction is set to begin on the new Clinton-Peabody public housing community after The Missouri Housing Development Commission (MHDC) […]
Dede Hance

Rams money stalemate imperils funds to buy Railway Exchange Building

7 months 1 week ago
City development nonprofit St. Louis Development Corp. will have to consider different funding sources to acquire the Railway Exchange Building after the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday reached a stalemate on how to spend the Rams settlement money, likely causing any plan for the settlement funds to be put off for months.
Nathan Rubbelke

Rams Settlement Money Deals Collapse

7 months 1 week ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Weeks of frantic work to appropriate hundreds of millions of dollars in Rams relocation settlement money hit a wall again Tuesday at the Board of Aldermen. After a couple of hours of debate, aldermen had not advanced any of the plans on the table, and some suggested they would delay action […]
Dede Hance