From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: A 30-page master plan from Edwardsville’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee (BPAC) is headed to the full city council for a vote Tuesday. Edwardsville received a Community Planning Grant from the Metro East Park and Recreation District (MEPRD) in 2021 to develop a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. The planning process for […]
From St. Louis Post Dispatch: From the low-lying stretch of Manchester Road, just east of Brentwood Boulevard, Bob Story has spent 30 years growing Feather-Craft Fly Fishing into an established player in the industry. The company his father started in 1955 now has about 20 employees, a mail-order business with nationwide reach and loyal anglers […]
From KRMS: According to a story posted by the Lake Sun Leader, The Lake Ozark Board of Aldermen are being asked to approve an ordinance at Tuesday’s regular meeting that would retain Regional Strategies, LLC to “assist the City’s economic development team and further explore potential interest with local developers, regional developers and national developers and help […]
From Call Newspapers: The Crestwood Board of Aldermen approved a zoning change and preliminary plan for a large mixed use development July 27. The project, located at 8800 Watson Road, was presented by CWD Equity for a zoning change from planned development-commercial to planned development-mixed use. Currently the site is home to Victory Raceway go-karting and […]
From typeinvestigations: Set on St. Louis’ neglect-scarred north side, 3211 Blair Avenue barely stands out. With shards of rotting wood serving as the only reminder of a front porch, and windows shrouded in graying plywood, it’s one of more than 10,000 vacant buildings in the city. Some of the city’s skeletal structures have burned-out, caved-in roofs. […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Washington University is in the process of demolishing a building along Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis’ Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. The city on Aug. 2 issued a demolition permit for the vacant 6030 Delmar Blvd., near the Delmar Loop MetroLink station. Though the property is located in a local historic district, the […]
Here's our usual start-of-Tuesday post. Gasoline prices were down yet again last week from $4.04 to $3.94: Adjusted for inflation, the price of gasoline is down 23% since its June peak. Hooray for President Biden! Likewise, the price of oil was down a couple of bucks too. As of today, West Texas Intermediate is at ...continue reading "Gasoline prices are down again"
Another big PGA Tour golf event, last hosted in the St. Louis area in 2008, has been scheduled for Bellerive Country Club, officials announced Tuesday. The 2008 event at Bellerive drew an estimated 100,000 golf fans and generated $28 million for the St. Louis region.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Officers arrived at a marijuana dispensary in Florissant for a burglary Tuesday morning to find a vehicle had gone into the building. Police said the incident happened at approximately 5:13 a.m. in the 11000 block of New Halls Ferry Road. That is where Cookies is located. No one was at [...]
The U.S. Labor Department investigates Noble Health after former employees of its shuttered Missouri hospitals say the private equity-backed owner took money from their paychecks and then failed to fund their insurance coverage.
Max Collins, the lead singer of the band Eve 6 has penned a great piece for Popula, noting that owning media is now an act of countercultural defiance. Specifically, he’s speaking out against basically all of the major book publishers suing the Internet Archive for making it possible to check out digital copies of books. […]
Saint Louis Public Schools are rerouting some of their bus services with the new school year beginning Aug. 22.
SLPS announced Monday the move will suspend routes to eight schools for the first few weeks of the school year and aims to get more bus drivers on the road. SLPS said the district is removing the schools from the routing schedule and will provide alternative transportation, to those 3,450 students.
“At least for the first few weeks of school, we are providing Metro Link bus passes (or…