From REjournals: The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) celebrated its 150th Anniversary in March, commemorating the milestone at its new headquarters in downtown St. Louis’ historic Security Building. The $1.5-million adaptive reuse project was designed by St. Louis-based Lawrence Group Architects with construction management firm Integrate Construction Partners. Located at 319 N. Fourth […]
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: Six years after it was announced, five years after city approval of an area plan, four years after initial groundbreaking, three years after scores of trees were removed along Route DD and after weathering the COVID-19 pandemic with its economic shocks, the Streets of Caledonia mixed-use development is clearly taking shape. […]
From Call Newspapers: Two representatives from Missouri American Water – Brian Eisenloeffel, senior director of operations, and Timothy Southards, engineering manager – gave a presentation on the projects going on in the area at the Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen meeting on March 12, including an update on the water tower project Southards began by […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Some construction companies in Missouri and Kansas are illegally misclassifying employees to cut down on payroll costs and avoid millions of dollars of state and federal income taxes, according to a pair of studies from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The research, which received funding from the Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council, […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: While a potential MetroLink expansion in St. Louis stirs controversy, work has been quietly underway for more than a year on building a long-sought Metro East extension of the light rail line. Illinois state funds are paying the entire cost of the $98 million, 5.2-mile connection from MetroLink’s current easternmost outpost […]
From KSDK: Powell Hall sits in the heart of the Grand Arts District right across the street from the Fox Theatre in Midtown St. Louis. Renovations are being made to the front entrance, lobby, box office, seats and contractors have decreased the elevation by leveling the slope on the hall’s floor. Currently, the hall has […]
From Lincoln News: Dreary, rainy weather couldn’t damper the enthusiasm at a ribbon cutting ceremony last week commemorating the grand opening of a Missouri Job Center office here in Troy. A collaboration between the Workforce Development Board of North Missouri, Gamm Incorporated, and the Lincoln County Missouri Economic Development Office the center, located at 260 […]
Privacy issues have been at the root cause of so many concerns about the internet, but so many attempts to regulate privacy have been a total mess. There’s now a more thoughtful attempt to regulate privacy in the US that is (perhaps surprisingly!) not terrible. For a while now, we’ve talked about how many of […]
From NPR: Rakeb Tesfaye, a 5-year-old student at the Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center in University City, said she enjoys playing outside because she gets to make friends. “And I get to go like this, and like this,” Tesfaye shared as she imagined herself swinging on monkey bars at a playground. She and her […]
ST. LOUIS -- Taco Bell is celebrating Taco Tuesday with a new $5 Taco Discovery Box. It comes with a star studded ad campaign featuring LeBron James and Jason Sudeikis. The $5 deal is available nationwide on Taco Tuesdays from April 23 to June 4. This promotional offer includes a new Cantina Chicken Crispy Taco, [...]
From West Newsmagazine: A final vote was taken on the bid to construct phase one of the Village Green project on the west side of the Wildwood City Hall. Bombshell Construction Services LLC will be paid $1.9 million for phase one, which will include access and utility installations, the performance stage and oval, plus the […]
An often-bootlegged live album from Paul McCartney & Wings is finally getting an official release 50 years after it was recorded. One Hand Clapping was recorded at Abbey Road studios in August 1974…
From Brookings: This month marks the third anniversary of the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and its $350 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. State, local, and tribal governments have had three years to appropriate, obligate, and spend SLFRF dollars […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Neighbors near where a developer wants to build two new apartment buildings on south Kingshighway expressed concerns about parking, traffic and housing affordability at a community meeting Saturday. Kansas City-based NorthPoint Development in February demolished a row of vacant, dilapidated houses at Kingshighway and Oakland Avenue. The company wants to build […]
From MRN: At its April 11 meeting, the O’Fallon City Council conducted a public hearing and gave a first reading to two bills covering the proposed and controversial Post Family Subdivision. One bill would approve a petition for voluntary annexation of 103.73 acres at 1065 East Hwy. N. The land is currently in unincorporated St. […]
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