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Tarlton Corp. Starts Construction on Outpatient Health Center

2 years 11 months ago
From ReJournal:  Tarlton Corp. broke ground Dec. 7 on the SSM Health Outpatient Center in O’Fallon, Missouri, after being selected as construction manager for the two-story 66,000-square-foot destination ambulatory center and outpatient facility in southern Greater St. Charles County. The center will serve as the premier source for the needs of a growing community – one […]
Shruthi Beedu

Developer Aims to Turn Maryland Heights Hotel Into Apartments

2 years 11 months ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A developer has filed plans to turn a struggling Maryland Heights hotel into apartments, city documents show. New York-based Churchwick Partners told the city of Maryland Heights that its 106-room Sonesta ES Hotel, at 1855 Craigshire Drive, is losing out to competing hotels and that the tight labor market is making it […]
Shruthi Beedu

$130M Butler Brothers Residential Redevelopment Has a Name, Opening Date

2 years 11 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  As construction continues on the $130 million project to convert the historic Butler Brothers building into more than 300 apartments, the massive project in Downtown West has a name and a target opening date. Memphis-based developer Development Services Group could finish construction on the first phase of transforming the 735,000-square-foot building […]
Shruthi Beedu

Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid Leave

2 years 11 months ago
From New York Intelligencer:  For months, the world’s largest economy has been teetering on the brink of collapse because America’s latter-day robber barons can’t comprehend that workers sometimes get sick. Or so the behavior of major U.S. rail companies seems to suggest. Since last winter, railroad unions and the managers of America’s seven dominant freight-rail carriers have been […]
Shruthi Beedu

Construction Input Prices Tick Down as Supply Chains Improve

2 years 11 months ago
From Construction Dive:  Dive Brief: Nonresidential construction input prices declined 0.8% in November compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis, due in part to improvement in supply chains that were battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the monthly decline, nonresidential construction input prices remain 11.5% higher than a year […]
Shruthi Beedu

UMSL Embarks on a Dramatic Campuswide Transformation

2 years 11 months ago
From UMSL Daily: Ken Cella wouldn’t change anything about the education he received at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Cella is the principal overseeing branch development at financial services firm Edward Jones and the new president of UMSL’s Chancellor’s Council. He reflects fondly on friends he made at UMSL, relationships he built with faculty members and the […]
Shruthi Beedu

St. Mary's High School inks deal with Archdiocese to remain open, will change school name

2 years 11 months ago
Updated with information from Thursday morning press conference. St. Mary's High School, the 91-year-old, Catholic boys' school that had been slated to close after this school year, has found new life. The school has inked a three-year lease with the Archdiocese of St. Louis, found a new religious sponsor and chosen a new name as it becomes an independent Catholic school. The Archdiocese said in September that it would close St. Mary's, as well as Rosati-Kain High School, an all-girls school in…
Diana Barr

Motives of Woman Suing St. Louis Police Questioned in Court

2 years 11 months ago
Yesterday in federal court attorneys representing the city of St. Louis called into question the motives of a 68-year-old woman alleging police used excessive force against her during a 2017 protest. The civil suit being brought by Laura Jones centers on what she says was officer misconduct on September 15, 2017. That day, former police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of murder charges stemming from the shooting of 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith.
Ryan Krull