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St. Louis leaders call for ban on assault rifles following school shooting

2 years 10 months ago

The first time St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones publicly spoke about the tragic shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, it was just hours after a shooter took the lives of a 15-year-old student and a health teacher.  Jones was so visibly shaken with grief she could barely get out the words. Now […]

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Rebecca Rivas

Centene Backs Out of St. Louis Soccer Stadium Naming Deal

2 years 10 months ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Centene Corp. has backed out as the naming sponsor for the new Major League Soccer stadium here, just eight months after striking the deal. St. Louis City SC’s stadium will now be called CITYPARK, the team said Tuesday, and it is searching for a new naming sponsor. The Clayton-based health insurer’s […]
Shruthi Beedu

Non-Residential Construction Forecast: Slowing 2023-2024

2 years 10 months ago
From Forbes:  Non-residential construction will shrink as the economy drops into recession sometime in the next year or so, due both to the higher interest rates by themselves and the reduced spending that will lead to. The decline won’t be devastating, but it will be significant. The sector’s current position is puzzling today, with the […]
Shruthi Beedu

Top Reasons Workers Don’t Use PPE Properly

2 years 10 months ago
From Construction Dive: A large majority of safety managers and coordinators have trouble ensuring workers wear their personal protective equipment, according to a recent survey conducted by PPE provider J.J. Keller Safegear. Employees most often didn’t wear PPE because they simply didn’t want to, according to the survey. Over 70% of those surveyed indicated employees had communicated that […]
Shruthi Beedu

City of St. Louis Issues Draft Incentives Framework

2 years 10 months ago
From JASUPRA:  After months of analysis, the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) recently published its long-awaited Summary of Incentives Analysis and Draft Future Incentives Framework (the Framework). The Framework, developed in conjunction with the City’s Economic Justice Action Plan (the EJAP) is intended to provide guidance to developers seeking incentives for projects located in the City. […]
Shruthi Beedu

Infill Apartment Complex, Townhouses Proposed Near Interstate 55

2 years 10 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal: A plan to construct four infill buildings with 20 apartments in a historic district in the city of St. Louis is moving ahead. Developer Mayo Aiyelokun of Beulah Properties LLC is seeking city approvals to construct a 3-story brick complex at 1812-1820 Geyer Ave. in McKinley Heights. The St. Louis Preservation Board […]
Shruthi Beedu

Construction Starts Fall Again

2 years 10 months ago
From Construction Dive:  Dive Brief: Total construction starts declined 19% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.02 trillion, according to a Dodge Data & Analytics report. The September decline follows August’s 9% drop in total construction starts, marking two consecutive months of decline following July’s 48% surge. Nonresidential building starts dropped 23%, […]
Shruthi Beedu

Poll: Illinois Democrats maintain large leads in race for governor, U.S. Senate, Sec Of State, Comptroller, Treasurer

2 years 10 months ago
With less than two weeks left in the campaign, the Democrats running for Illinois statewide offices and U.S. Senate hold commanding leads over their GOP opponents, a new WGN-TV/Emerson College/The Hill poll found. Although likely voters seem poised to pick Democrats for the state’s top offices, they are divided on the direction Illinois is headed. [...]
Tahman Bradley

Illinois State Police Arrests Suspect In East St. Louis On Aggravated Battery/Criminal Sexual Assault Charges

2 years 10 months ago
EAST ST. LOUIS – A 20-year-old Cahokia Heights man has been arrested on a variety of charges from Aggravated Kidnapping (Class X Felony), Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault/Weapon (Class X Felony), Aggravated Unlawful Restraint (Class 3 Felony), Aggravated Battery/Great Bodily Harm (Class 3 Felony) and Aggravated Battery/Use Deadly Weapon (Class 3 Felony). Illinois State Police (ISP) and East St. Louis Police Department arrested the man after they were called at 5:29 p.m. on Sunday, October 23, 2022, to a stabbing and criminal sexual assault report in the 3000 block of Market Place, East St. Louis. The East St. Louis Police Department requested the ISP Public Safety Enforcement Group (PSEG) respond to a reported stabbing and criminal sexual assault. ISP said the victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment of her injuries. The suspect left the scene prior to the arrival of law enforcement. After a thorough investigation, PSEG identified Elijah Harper as a suspect.

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10 Names for St. Louis' Soccer Stadium That Are Better Than 'CITYPARK'

2 years 10 months ago
St. Louis' shiny new soccer stadium hasn't even hosted its first game yet, but it's already making headlines. Specifically, the new pride of the city made the news earlier this week due to the fact that it's been unable to operate at full power for the last two months on account of flooding and a broken electrical pipe, which together fried some of the stadium's main breakers and resulted in the place running off of a generator. Then, just yesterday, the St. Louis Business Journal reported that managed care company and alleged medicaid fraudster Centene has backed out of its 15-year naming rights deal, rendering the stadium an underwhelming "CITYPARK" for the foreseeable future in what feels eerily similar to a South Park bit.
Daniel Hill

New League Brings Late Night Basketball to Wohl Center

2 years 10 months ago
On Friday evening at 10 p.m., when most people are watching TV, partying or sleeping, the air in the Wohl Community Center is sticky and stuffy. Sweaty bodies run up and down the court. Old timers pile into a corner, arguing about the NBA back in 1995.
Benjamin Simon