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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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.
The City of St. Louis Department of Health announced Tuesday that three dogs involved in an attack that killed a 62-year-old woman and injured her husband last month have been euthanized.
As recently noted, New York State now has a law requiring that ISPs (with more than 20,000 subscribers) offer low-income state residents a 25 Mbps broadband tier for $15. Big Telecom didn’t much like that, but their efforts to kill the law, first passed in 2021, fell apart when the Supreme Court refused to hear […]
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) […]
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.
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 […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The owner of a parcel being sought by the city of St. Louis in its effort to gain control of the Railway Exchange Building and its parking garage has appealed the sale price set for its property in eminent domain proceedings. Neil Tober, trustee under the Neil S. Tober Revocable […]
From Construction Dive: Since taking office, President Donald Trump has signed a cascade of executive orders with big implications for labor, permitting, project funding and other critical issues for contractors. This means the legal landscape is highly uncertain, and contractors and their clients must remain nimble and up to speed on policy changes, according to a […]
From First Alert 4: Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of a newly passed federal law — work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent and severe extreme weather events due to climate change. The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) is passed by Congress every two […]
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday sent the first flight of detained migrants on military aircraft from the United States to the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as President Donald Trump continues high-profile displays of his immigration crackdown. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted photos on social media of men in handcuffs […]
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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