Covered in white protective clothing, Wendy Bronfein stepped into a long, sterile hallway of closed doors.
She calls it the “Willy Wonka-esque” corridor.
“This is the Mike Teavee part of the tour,” said Bronfein, co-founder of the Maryland-based marijuana company Curio Wellness, referencing the character from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
Everything down to the wheels on the carts at the new marijuana manufacturing facility in St. Louis County gets scrubbed regularly. And that’s…
The Lunar New Year is a holiday that originated in China over 4,000 years ago but is now celebrated globally. To mirror the 15 days of festivities, here are 15 gifts that can help usher in the Lunar New Year.
Even though the blog is now often given over to “Trump did nothing wrong” posts and suggestions that social media services engage in “censorship” of so-called “conservatives” (and don’t even think about wandering into the comment section), Eugene Volokh’s Volokh Conspiracy still surfaces some very interesting cases. And this one has a lot going on. […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A north St. Louis property targeted for conversion to a workforce development hub will require round-the-clock security during construction and potentially longer, according to city documents. The vacant former Killark Electric manufacturing facility, at 3940 Martin Luther King Drive in the Vandeventer neighborhood, was purchased in October by the St. […]
With more than 2,500 words and phrases to learn in each of our 150+ languages, the uTalk gives you a running start on your journey to language fluency. Simple and easy to use, you have fun as you develop your language skills naturally – just like you did with your first language. Every single word […]
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: The officers of the Southwestern Illinois Central Labor Council were sworn in amid holiday cheer at the annual gathering on Dec. 19. The council’s attorney, Brad Badgeley, swore in the officers who were re-elected to a three-year term at the regular delegate meeting in November, including council president Scot […]
From Gensler: The design of buildings for sciences R&D is more rigorous than ever, amplified in recent years as the biotech industry has migrated to amenitized urban locations. In the competition for talent, many research-focused tenants are gravitating toward neighborhood amenities that were not possible in the previous generation of suburban research campuses. With the […]
Another Guns N’ Roses tune has reached a billion streams on Spotify. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s top five hit “Paradise City” is the band's latest track to join Spotify's Billions Club, one of three…
St. Louis Business Journal: A recently completed apartment complex in St. Charles County has sold for more than $30 million. The Solstice, a 156-unit apartment complex in Lake Saint Louis, was sold Oct. 25 by Chesterfield-based developer Mia Rose Holdings to Minneapolis-based Timberland Partners for $30.88 million, a spokeswoman for Mia Rose Holdings said. The […]
St. Louis' summer of 2024 is going to kick off with a bang: Janet Jackson announced today she's coming to Hollywood Casino Amphitheater on June 21, and she's bringing Nelly with her. That last part isn't just a local thing. The "I'm from the Lou and I'm proud" rapper is actually accompanying Jackson on all 35 new stops she announced today for her ongoing tour, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Velvet Rope and the 30th anniversary of Janet.
From West Newsmagazine: Wildwood residents are apprehensive about the prospect of a residential development they thought had been put to rest surfacing again. TB Realty and Development and Benton Homebuilders are appealing their request for a rezoning of an approximately 6-acre tract in Wildwood’s Town Center. Lattitude N38 would consist of 57 rental homes at […]
From Labor Tribune: The State of Missouri has adopted CWA Labor standards for the state’s $1.7 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to expand high-speed internet access to underserved communities, the Communications Workers of America District 6 announced. The BEAD program was established by President Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Under […]
St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis’ downtown is constantly changing, and so are the projects planned there. There are $3.8 billion in projects proposed, in planning or under construction in the 2.91 square miles that encompass the downtown and Downtown West neighborhoods, according to data gathered by the Business Journal for its annual list of […]
The Doors’ Robby Krieger is still on a search to find one of his Doors-era guitars, which was stolen almost 60 years ago. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer initially put…
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Over the course of a day, St. Charles brothers Nate and Jeff Droste are historians, detectives and building contractors. They conduct research at the St. Charles County Historical Society, where they dig through old photographs, newspaper clippings and the occasional artist rendering of a historic building in its prime. They brush […]
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