With nearly 15 percent of contracts awarded through a small part of the federal stimulus program, fresh statistics show that newly created jobs are often going to states that need them least, according to a Friday report from The New York Times. At issue is a $16 billion program granting [...]
from Crain’s Chicago Business
The Obama administration’s stimulus plan is an attractive opportunity for small businesses looking to get into the government-contracting game. But if you’ve never gone after a government gig before, the prospect of finding out what jobs are available, who to pitch to, and how to qualify can [...]
Your #1 most important marketing investment in today’s economy is your Web site, because that’s where 99% of small business decision makers go to find suppliers — see our latest e-newsletter for details. Your Web site needs to be compelling, up-to-date, easy to navigate, easy to scan/read and different [...]
Kudos to five local construction tradesmen who pried open the door of a car that crashed Tuesday morning on the River Heritage Parkway in Alton, Illinois, then pulled the driver to safety as flames quickly overtook the small vehicle. The tradesmen were working on the National Great Rivers [...] 
Congratulations to Kevin Ferguson, vice president of Kwame Building Group (KWAME), for his 2009 “Inclusive Leadership Award,” which he received last week from the St. Louis Business Journal. The award honors ethnic minorities who are making their mark on the St. Louis business community. Ferguson, 36, [...]
SCORE Chicago TV host Mark Goodman interviewed Kevin Ferguson, vice president of Kwame Building Group, on the Obama Stimulus plan this week. Kevin points out that there are significant opportunities for small businesses in the stimulus plan and discusses what it takes to participate in government business.
Architects, the first to know when development dries up, are the proverbial canary in the coal mine of the construction industry. Architects have been hit hard by this downturn and they continue to tighten their belts — cutting perks, cutting or furloughing staff (who even used that word [...]
The American Recover and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is pumping billions of dollars into construction infrastructure projects. But if your firm has not done much government work, you may find it challenging to quickly break into the public sector.
AGC St. Louis is hosting a free seminar on “Working for the [...]
Kelly Spors, a Wall Street Journal reporter who recently quoted Walton Construction CEO Dan Frisbee in an article on small businesses accessing economic stimulus funds, offers tips for winning government contracts on her WSJ blog Independent Street. She offers links for networking with government contractors, accessing lists [...]
A report on how states are using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds is in Engineering News Record today.
In the Midwest, Missouri was one of the first ready-to-go states, starting four projects on the day President Obama signed ARRA into law. Missouri DOT says more than 200 other [...]
I followed a Google Alert on my name to a post on Donna Gamache’s new blog, St. Louis Design Community Connections. Nice Monday morning wake-me-up!
Donna, marketing director at the Lawrence Group, is providing a great service to the local architecture/design community with her very timely and interesting blog. She [...]
The Missouri Senate approved a bill this week that would allow use of federal stimulus funds for school construction.
As we reported last month, $20 billion was cut from the final version of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Although the legislation does not include a specific line item [...]
Dan Frisbee, CEO of Walton Construction Company, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal last week in an article on small businesses benefiting from federal stimulus funds. Walton has offices in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Missouri, Dallas and New Orleans.
According to the article by Kelly Spors, the small [...]
The Associated General Contractors has created a web page Rebuild America’s Future which outlines how the money will be distributed, which is typically through state governments, as well as specific policy provisions and AGC’s efforts on the stimulus.
[...]To keep track of how the stimulus package is progressing, check out www.recovery.gov, the federal website set up to monitor the distribution of funds and results from the stimulus package.
Right now, the site offers an overview of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and an explanation of what it [...]
Stephen Sandherr, the CEO of the Associated General Contractors, calls the economic stimulus package “the most significant investment in infrastructure in my lifetime,” according to Engineering News Record.
With $130 billion set aside for highways, buildings and other public works projects, the $787.2-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [...]
The ink was barely dry on the economic stimulus bill signed by President Barack Obama when Missouri began work on the first transportation project in the country funded with the federal dollars, according to MissouriNet.
State transportation officials and construction officials gathered in Tuscumbia, Missouri yesterday to start construction on a [...]
The $789-billion economic stimulus package passed by the House and Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday includes an estimated $131 billion for construction-related spending. A more precise number can’t be determined because some capital-spending funding in the bill can be used to purchase equipment as well as to fund construction–transit [...]
The major construction industry casualty in the mammoth economic stimulus package that passed the Senate yesterday was school-construction aid. Lawmakers deleted all $19.5 billion originally recommended for K-12 and college projects.
The final Senate bill passed with about $133 billion for construction programs, compared with about $160 billion in the bill [...]
St. Louis-based Capri Pool & Aquatics is named in today’s St. Louis Business Journal for their rapid growth over five years.
Capri Pool & Aquatics, a builder of large aquatic centers and water parks, is owned by Vee-Jay Cement Contracting, one of the largest concrete contractors in St. Louis. According [...]
Kwame Building Group, Inc.(KWAME) has been selected to provide construction management services for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources on the redevelopment of Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park in Reynolds County.
The park was damaged by the breach of the Taum Sauk Reservoir in December 2005. Following cleanup and the planning [...]
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) has named Kwame Building Group, Inc. as construction manager for a rehabilitation and expansion program at the Missouri River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Maryland Heights. Construction on the first project is expected to begin in the summer of 2009 and the program [...]
The Department of the Navy-Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast has selected Walton Construction St. Louis as general contractor on the new $25.3 million Parris Island Barracks Complex in Parris Island, South Carolina. Working with Walton Construction New Orleans and architect VOA Associates Incorporated, Walton St. Louis is scheduled to [...]
The stimulus proposal currently before Congress could fund $160 billion in construction projects across many federal departments and agencies, according to the House Appropriations Committee’s explanatory report on the bill. Engineering News Record breaks the appropriations into these categories:
A report by the Congressional [...]
The $825 billion economic stimulus proposal that House Democrats unveiled yesterday provides the first firm numbers for construction industry executives.
As drafted, the plan would have a major impact on construction, providing about $132 billion in construction spending, according to Engineering News Record.Construction firms also would benefit from some of [...]Clayco Inc. has completed construction on the 29,600-square-foot St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Hospital in West St. Louis County. The $7.4 million project was completed on behalf of a joint venture between RehabCare Group Inc. and St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. The facility provides medical and therapy services for patients requiring [...]
St. Louis-based general contractor Paric Corp. has completed a $7.8 million senior housing project on South Grand Boulevard in the city of St. Louis. The 76,000-square-foot development features 87 senior apartments above ground-level retail. The project was built on behalf of Minneapolis-based Dominium Development and Acquisition.
Amenitites include a computer center, [...]
Kwame Building Group is providing construction management services to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources on the redevelopment of Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park in Reynolds County. The redeveloped park is scheduled to reopen to the public in 2009.
In 2005, the park was damaged by the breach of AmerenUE’s Taum Sauk [...]
Walton Construction St. Louis recently completed a 190,617-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter expansion in Chesterfield, Missouri. Renovations to the retail facility were completed in less than a year, and the store stayed open throughout construction. The architect was LawKingdon Architecture of Wichita, Kansas.
Walton Construction St. Louis began working with Wal-Mart in 2003 [...]
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District has named Kwame Building Group, Inc. (KWAME) as construction manager for a rehabilitation and expansion program at the Missouri River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Construction on the first project is expected to begin in the summer of 2009 and the program [...]
Construction spending fell less than expected in November as record activity on nonresidential projects helped offset another steep decline in housing. The outlook, however, is for significant weakness as the worst recession in at least a quarter-century takes its toll on construction.
The Commerce Department reported Monday that construction spending dropped [...]
The Missouri Department of Transportation is ready to “put shovels in the ground” on $510 million worth of transportation projects within 180 days after an economic stimulus package passes. The 34 projects would create about 14,000 jobs and have a $2.4 billion impact on the state’s economy.
That amount assumes that [...]
Engineering News Record projects continued declines in construction, with the potential for a bright spot on non-building public works projects, thanks to the new administration’s proposed economic stimulus package.
From ENR - December 31, 2008:
New construction starts in November fell 3% from the previous month, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, [...]
Kwame Building Group has been named construction manager and owner’s representative on a new $10 million facility for St. Louis Community College’s William J. Harrison Northside Education Center in St. Louis. The approximately 30,000-square-foot project will include classroom facilities. Construction is scheduled to begin in winter 2009 and be [...]
Guarantee Electrical has been selected to perform electrical work at the new $290 million SunCoke Energy Inc. plant in Granite City, IL. Guarantee Electrical, which has a long-standing partnership with U.S. Steel, is serving as electrical contractor, with 80 to 90 electricians on-site at peak production.
Source: Saint Louis [...]Leslie Guevarra of Greener Buildings reports on the Lawrence Group’s eco-friendly model home built of shipping containers, which is featured at the West Coast Green conference.
Amid neck-craning stacks of shipping containers at an Alameda depot, a building crew has worked for the past two weeks to fashion an eco-friendly, [...]
St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group is serving as construction manager for the $435 million Port Authority of Allegheny County’s North Shore Connector project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. KWAME is part of the joint venture called TriGold, which includes Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, California and HDR, an architectural and engineering firm [...]
On-the-job fatalities in construction were down 5% in 2007, but the decline was less than other industries and the highest of any sector, according to the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The construction industry had 1,178 workplace deaths last year, down 5% from 2006. Construction has reported the most [...]
Valero Energy Corporation–Benicia has recognized Guarantee Electrical for its outstanding safety record at the company’s Benicia, California refinery through their “Contractor of the Year Safety Award for Large Contractors.” St. Louis-based Guarantee Electrical has provided electrical maintenance, service, instrumentation and electrical construction on capital projects for the refinery since [...]
The American Concrete Pavement Association has recognized Kwame Building Group/Green Joint Venture for their work on the reconstruction of taxiway F, L & S at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The project was rated the “best commercial service and military airport concrete paving project completed in Missouri in 2007.” A St. [...]
Tim Rowbottom, a principal with St. Louis-based Lawrence Group, was named in an article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch about pro-bono architecture work.
Rowbottom designed the interior for the Downtown Children’s Center in St. Louis on his first day at work and has been donating time to the project [...]
St. Louis-based Kwame Building Group has been named program management consultant for the Airport Experience Program, a renovations campaign at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
Over a five-year period, the airport’s terminal, concourse and passenger support facilities will undergo renovations. Restoration of the airport’s domed ceilings will begin in mid-July; additionally, [...]
Lawrence Group has completed the redevelopment of Kirberg Co.’s 44,000-square-foot headquarters and distribution facility in St. Louis. Lawrence Group provided design/build services for the redevelopment of the historic property, which contains office and warehouse space.
The two-story building achieved LEED certification with sustainable features such as bamboo flooring, motion-sensor lighting, [...]
One of the big national AEC stories of 2007 was the number of top design firms acquired by larger companies last year. Sixteen firms “disappeared” from the ENR Top 500 Design Firms list due to acquisitions.
The trend to instantly create companies that can provide a full range of services [...]
Walton Construction St. Louis has been selected as general contractor for the new $6.7 million, 20,000-square-foot Chesterfield Medical Institute. The facility will include an outpatient surgical unit and three medical practices — Laser & Dermatologic Surgery Center, West County Dermatology and Generation Dental Group. Walton also is providing pre-construction, estimating [...]
A new Miami-Date County ordinance went into effect on Friday, three days after a section of a tower crane collapsed at a Bay condominium construction site near downtown Miami, leaving two workers dead and five others injured.
The new ordinance requires certification of operators, who must pass a written test and [...]
The entire industry seems to be focused on crane and construction worksite safety in the wake of two deadly crane collapses, one in New York City and a second in Miami. Those cities quickly moved to pass strict rules for crane inspections and safety practices.
But a survey of other areas [...]
Ron Glaser, vice president of preconstruction services for Walton Construction, was recently quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Ask the Experts” column on the impact of the slowing housing market on commercial construction:
“So far, commercial construction has not been affected by the slowdown in the housing market nearly as [...]
Non-residential construction remains active in spite of the residential market slowdown and credit crunch, according to the Turner Building Cost Index, published by leading national construction company Turner Construction.
The index shows a continuing shortage of skilled labor and uncertainty about the availability and cost of materials, putting upward pressure [...]
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has contracted with Kwame Building Group Inc. for construction management of various renovations and new construction projects related to the university’s facilities master plan.
KWAME will act as an advisor to the University by reviewing project program, design and construction phases relative to issues of cost, schedule, [...]
St. Louis-based Walton Construction Co. has completed construction of a $15 million Wal-Mart Supercenter located in Jacksonville, Illinois, according to REBusiness Online. The grand opening for the 200,000-square-foot retail center was held last week. During construction, 90 percent of the project subcontractors hired by Walton were residents of the Jacksonville [...]
Perhaps the most accurate word for predicting the construction economy in 2008 is “tumultuous,” according to Ken Simonson, the chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).
Simonson reports that some nonresidential segments such as energy will grow, while others such as lodging will slow or decline. Diesel fuel, [...]
Kwame Building Group of St. Louis played a key role as program manager in helping St. Louis Community College achieve LEED Gold certification on its new Wildwood campus. The project received the certification this month.
The $18 million 75,000-square-foot St. Louis Community College Wildwood campus is the largest community college facility [...]
Nonresidential construction starts were down 13.1% in January as compared to January 2007, according to Reed Construction Data. Monthly starts have been slowing since October 2007 and were down down 8% from December 2007
In 2007, nonresidential starts were up 10.6% as compared to the 2006.
The slowdown in nonresidential construction starts [...]
St. Louis-based Lawrence Group and Austin Tao & Associates have merged, combining two successful, well-respected St. Louis design practices that have been teaming on national and international projects for many years.
The Lawrence Group board of directors approved the acquisition as a move to expand services both nationally and internationally. Austin [...]
Top hot building markets for AEC firms in 2008 include healthcare, higher education, K-12 schools and commercial office buildings, according to the Building Design+Construction chief economist and ZweigWhite, a leading management consulting firm for the industry. Highway and bridge construction also will be strong in 2008.
The economists also reported [...]
Dave Dwars of the Lawrence Group was quoted in a Midwest Construction cover story on redevelopment of downtown St. Louis this month.
According to the article, 69 buildings have been restored downtown since 1999, totaling $1.3 billion in development.
An example is the Lawrence Group’s $125 million Park Pacific Building. Renovation of [...]
Walton Construction St. Louis operations manager Tom Kaiman of Chesterfield, Missouri has been chosen as one of 40 young professionals nationwide to receive the Building Design+Constructions third annual 40 Under 40 award.
The honor is bestowed to young professionals in the design and construction industry. [...]
An article this week in the New York Times (January 27) reports that more than 800 buildings nationwide are lined up for LEED-EB certification, following the release of streamlined LEED-EB guidelines last October.
LEED-EB, which stands for LEED for Existing Buildings, is a three-year-old program by the U.S. Green Building [...]
Architectural billings showed a healthy score in December, according to the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) reported by the American Institute of Architects this week. The index shows a nine to twelve month lag time between architectural billings and construction spending, so it’s a good outlook indicator for construction.
The December [...]
The Portland Cement Association predicts that portland cement consumption will be down until at least 2010, as the depressed housing market affects consumer spending and commercial construction.
In the long term, though, cement use is expected to grow by 43% to 183-million tonness by 2030, 55-million tonness more than 2005. Highway [...]
New York City-based Nassimi Realty has acquired the 20-story Millennium Center office tower at 515 Olive St. in St. Louis. The building has 260,000 square feet of space, including ground-floor retail. Tenants include law firms Evans & Dixon and McAnany, Van Cleave and Phillips. Nassimi plans to upgrade the building [...]
Ebersoldt + Underwood Architects and WDM Architects have formed a joint venture to design the $150 million redevelopment of the Lemp Brewery complex in St. Louis. The 14-acre property presently includes 29 brick buildings built between 1864 and 1919, which would be redeveloped into 400 residential apartments and [...]
Paric Corp. has broken ground on a $23.5 million hotel in the Delmar Loop neighborhood of St. Louis. The Moonrise Hotel will be a seven-story, 124-room boutique hotel featuring an upscale restaurant and bar, two meeting rooms and a rooftop patio. The developer is the Loop’s very own [...] Construction is complete on the $8 million Saint Louis University Simon Recreation Center. The Lawrence Group provided architectural and interior design and Alberici Constructors of St. Louis was the general contractor.
Phase II of the two-phase project completed in January 2008 includes a 9,638-square-feet expansion of the entrance on the upper [...]
Walton Construction St. Louis has three Wal-Mart Supercenter projects under construction in Missouri and Illinois. The firm began work on a 180,954-square-foot Wal-Mart in Harrisburg, Ill., in November 2007, and is expecting completion by August. Walton also is building a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jacksonville, Ill., scheduled for completion in February, [...]
Today I made a presentation on Web 2.0 for Marketing & PR at the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS). Their members wanted to know how Web 2.0 (”second generation” Web) tools like blogs, podcasts, RSS feeds, social networking, wikis and widgets can be used by architects, engineers and construction [...]
The US Green Building Council - St. Louis Regional Chapter is accepting abstracts for presentations at their fifth annual “Greening the Heartland Conference,” which will be held in St. Louis June 22 to 24. They’re looking for submissions from the architecture, building and planning fields, corporate policy makers and facility/real [...]
The U.S. Commerce Department reports that construction spending edged up slightly in November, with the steep slump in housing offset by record spending on government and business projects, according to Engineering News Record.
At the same time, a key gauge of manufacturing activity fell in December to the lowest point [...]
Now is a great time to consider your business and personal intentions for the upcoming year.
I believe “intention” is a more deliberate form of internal planning and has more staying power than resolutions, which we all know can be easily broken or ignored.
Here are some of my favorite intentions:
1. Be [...]
Walton Investors, LLC has appointed Dan Frisbee of St. Louis as chief operation officer of Walton Construction Company, LLC. As CEO, Frisbee will provide overall direction and vision for the company, whose corporate offices are in Kansas City, Missouri. He also will continue to oversee and support the operations of [...]
In April, we reported that a total worldwide ban on incandescent light bulbs could save 470 million tons of CO2, more than half the reductions called for by the Kyoto Treaty.
Today, the U.S. takes action on that concept through an 822-page energy bill that Congress passed and delivered to [...]
After two consecutive months of decline, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has rebounded and is up just over two points compared to its previous mark, according to the American Institute of Architects, which sees the report as an encouraging sign for the construction industry.
The index is a leading [...]
A jury in St. Louis County today ruled in favor of the Cross County Collaborative (CCC) on all counts in a lawsuit that was brought by St. Louis Metro over the eight-mile Metrolink extension from Forest Park to Shrewsbury.
Cross County Collaborative was a joint venture of four companies hired to [...]
Public Architecture, a nonprofit advocate for pro bono design, recently launched phase two of “The 1%,” a program created in 2005 to challenge architecture and design firms to pledge 1 percent of their billable hours to pro bono work. More than 200 design and architecture firms have signed on.
The [...]Walton Construction St. Louis has completed an $18.5 million expansion of St. Peters Rec-Plex, an indoor recreation facility located in St. Peters, Missouri.
The project included a new 106,000-square-foot recreation building with two National Hockey League regulation-sized ice rinks with seating for 1,200 and 300. The expansion tripled the size of [...]
As you reflect on 2007 and prepare for 2008, you might consider signing up for the Associated General Contractor’s economic forecast. The interactive audio conference will be held on Thursday, December 13, 1 p.m. central standard time.
According to AGC, nonresidential construction held up well in 2007 despite a housing [...]
Wellspring Development Company and Belcher Homes LLC, will break ground this month on Rock Hill Trails, billed as “the area’s first totally ‘green’ new home community.”
Located in Woodriver, Illinois, the development will feature about 290 single family homes, multifamily units, and neighborhood commercial properties. Rock Hill Trails [...]
Seventy percent of of architects say client demand is driving green building, and owners and developers are demanding greener buildings to reduce operating costs, according to the third annual Green Index. The survey of green building practices by Autodesk, Inc. and the American Institute of Architects looked at the [...]
The Clinton Foundation announced four new partnerships in their Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) at the Greenbuild conference in Chicago, the world’s largest green building event.
City of Chicago
The Sears Tower and the Merchandise Mart will receive energy-enhancing retrofits. The Clinton Foundation and the City of Chicago also have teamed [...]
More than a third of the 200 construction project and program owners surveyed by the Construction Management Association of America said they have used Building Information Modeling (BIM) on one or more projects. BIM is being adopted at an accelerating rate, according to a survey published in Building [...]
St. Louis-based Brinkmann Constructors has completed The Crescent in Clayton, a $73 million, nine-story condominium tower located at 155 Carondelet Plaza in Clayton, according to RE Business Online. The 390,000-square-foot building features 72 luxury condos ranging in price from $900,000 to more than $2 million, and 26,000 square feet [...]
Nonresidential construction grew in November and accelerating hiring by architects and engineers suggests future growth, according to Ken Simonson, Chief Economist for The Associated General
Contractors of America (AGC). Simonson was quoted in the November 6 issue of Building Design & Construction News.
According to AGC, residential construction spending was [...]
Taylor-Morley Homes, one of the area’s largest home builders, has allegedly defaulted on a $16.5 million loan according to a suit filed last month by Southwest Bank of St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Business Journal, Taylor-Morley’s revenue took a hit last year after several years of growth. [...]
Engineering News-Record today reported that an overall decline in construction starts in the United States is more dire than predicted. McGraw-Hill Construction estimates that the industry experienced an 8% decline in construction starts in 2007. Another 2% drop is forecast for 2008.
Total construction reached a record $668.9 billion in [...]
Novus International has broken ground on a new global headquarters at the 200-acre Missouri Research Park in St. Charles. The $20 million project will include the renovation of Novus existing 42,000-square-foot facility and construction of a 48,000-square-foot addition.
The new building will feature 10 research laboratories, an employee and customer-training center, [...]
Phase I construction on Market at McKnight, a $95 million mixed-use development in Rock Hill, will be complete this month. The project is being developed by Novus Development, with The Lawrence Group providing master planning for the entire project and complete architectural services for the first phase. Hensley Construction is [...]
Although spending on private non-residential real estate projects jumped 17% in the past year, architects and builders are keeping an eye out for signs that the worldwide credit crunch may be spreading through the entire real estate market, according to Building Design + Construction.
The commercial real estate market has [...]
Minnesota Dept. of Transportation officials have issued an urgent request for proposals for design-build teams interested in replacing Minneapolis’ I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River, the 40-year-old bridge that collapsed on August 1.
A design-build contract could be awarded as soon as early September, according to a news alert by Engineering [...]
New construction starts nationwide advanced 8% in June over the prior month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $662.4 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction. Nonresidential building showed an especially strong performance, surging up 29% over May, while residential building improved a moderate 4%, mostly due to a strong [...]
The University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL) has purchased a $2.7 million, 56,000-square-foot laboratory facility and will renovate it for use as a new tech incubator and supercomputing center.
The building, across the highway from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, had been renovated for use as a lab by Incyte Genomics, a [...]
The retail sector is lagging behind the pack in green building, according to The U.S. Green Building Council. They report that LEED project certifications for green buildings overall were up 67% from 2005 to 2006. But of the more than 800 LEED certified projects to-date, only 50 retail projects have [...]
The St. Louis County Port Authority has completed a land purchase that will pave the way for construction to begin on the $375 million Pinnacle Entertainment casino and hotel project. The project is expected to create 1,000 construction jobs.
The County purchased 39 acres in south St. Louis County that Pinnacle [...]
Holland Construction Services is building a new $26 million junior high school for O’Fallon School District #90. The 145,000-square-foot school will be on 42 acres along Seven Hills Road and will feature a gymnasium, 40 teaching areas, a library/media center and a “cafetorium,” which combines a cafeteria and performance stage. [...]
Developer Dmyterko & Wright Partners has broken ground on a $50 million entertainment and retail complex on 18 acres in Hazelwood, Missouri, as reported in GlobeSt.com. The Crescent Pointe at the Mills property at Highway 370 and St. Louis Mills Boulevard is next to St. Louis Mills Mall and [...]
A survey of mayors across the United States shows that most cities are adopting policies to encourage sustainable construction and energy efficiency in municipal buildings. The survey results were released at the 75th anniversary meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors held in June.
The City of St. Louis is keeping [...]
Dmyterko & Wright Partners is developing an 18-acre, $50 million Crescent Pointe at the Mills in Hazelwood, at Highway 370 and St. Louis Mills Boulevard, adjacent to the St. Louis Mills Mall. The development will include 80,000 square feet of retail space, three to five specialty restaurants, and Splash Universe [...]
