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Midas Hospitality is advancing its growth strategy with the addition of David Clayton as the firm’s first chief investment officer. Clayton has nearly 40 years of experience in finance, most recently serving as senior vice president, private markets at Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), Inc. He will now focus on raising capital for Midas as […]

Well before his accolades and City Connect cameo, Nelly once pushed for an opportunity in Major League Baseball.

There are few groups of people cops like less than people who don’t like cops. But it’s not that these people don’t like cops, per se. It’s that they’re tired of cops doing whatever they want whenever they want with near-zero accountability. Cops continue to bad things, like murder unarmed people while “effecting arrests.” These […]

Poettker Industrial Services, a woman-owned utility, energy, and infrastructure contractor, is excited to announce the promotion of Blake Langenhorst to Project Manager. Langenhorst joined Poettker Industrial in 2023 as a Project Engineer and most recently served in the role of Senior Project Engineer. He has eight years of experience in the construction industry. Langenhorst received […]

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 […]

A man is accused of breaking into a neighborhood market in Jennings earlier this month and stealing more than $20,000 in cash and merchandise.

A Jefferson County man was already facing 15 charges in the City of St. Louis for stealing, property damage and possessing a stolen vehicle when, on Friday, he was charged with a staggering 252 additional crimes.  Prosecutors say that 36-year-old Gage Luttman’s reign of burglaries and property damage began in August of last year when he was captured on surveillance video stealing a Hyundai, which he then used to commit further crimes, such as stealing items like bikes, chainsaws, and tools from south city garages.  The Hillsboro resident then started hitting storage units.

South Korea is investing massive amounts of public funding into importing natural gas while demand is declining.

Here is where to find summer fun at museums, the Zoo and the like.

From First Alert 4:  After leasing a Lincoln County facility for the past 13 years, The Boone Center Inc. has purchased the building, making way for an expansion of the manufacturing facility. BCI employs 40 people at the current facility, which spans 23,000 square feet. Once the expansion is complete, the footprint will measure nearly […]

Last week the US Trade Representative published a 4-year review of the tariffs levied on China by Donald Trump and continued by Joe Biden. There are a few things of note. First of all, imports from China that were subject to tariffs did indeed fall: As you can see, import of products from China that ...continue reading "So how are the China tariffs coming along?"

From West Newsmagazine:  On May 13, St. Louis County Executive Dr. Sam Page signed a contract to hire Wright Construction Services to build a new state-of-the-art public safety facility in Maryland Heights. The new facility will be built with $46 million in federal relief funds received from the state of Missouri and St. Louis County, […]

From West Newsmagazine:  Some development projects planned for Town Center in Wildwood have been delayed for various reasons, and Director of Planning Joe Vicnich gave an update on these projects at the Planning & Zoning (P&Z) meeting on May 6. Greenberg is a mixed-use development with 189 multiple-family units, 14 single-family detached homes and pickleball […]

From Bloomberg:  The new professional soccer stadium that opened last year on the western edge of downtown St. Louis stands apart from most sports venues being built in the US today. The 22,423-seat facility, known as CityPark, was built with relatively modest public subsidies. And instead of looming as a massive megastructure surrounded by parking […]

The man killed was 19-year-old Eddie Randle Jr., a resident of St. Louis' Hamilton Heights neighborhood. Three victims survived the shooting.

Some Lake Saint Louis residents are worried the Wright City facility will degrade water quality.

From REjournals:  St. Louis’ KAI has been honored with a pair of St. Louis Business Journal accolades: Best Places to Work and the Community Impact Award. Nearly 200 nominations were submitted for the newspaper’s 2024 Best Places to Work Awards program. Participating companies and their employees completed surveys administered by a third-party surveyor, Quantum Workplace, […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Pitt Development Group LLC has sued Mercy Health, accusing the health system of halting construction projects because it perceived the Springfield, Missouri-based firm as a “whistleblower.” The lawsuit filed Jan. 25 in Greene County Circuit Court seeks to recover in excess of $9 million that Pitt Development Group (PDG) said […]