The housing slump turned into an opportunity for the St. Louis Mason Contractors Association, which recently completed a $2.1 million renovation and expansion of its headquarters on Big Bend Boulevard in Richmond Heights.

Richard Frisch Jr., the group’s president and owner…

Work is set to resume on the Park Pacific project downtown now that the developer, Lawrence Group, has gotten a commitment on a $56 million federally insured loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Lawrence Group says HUD…

I got a chance Thursday night to go to the Planet Money roadshow, which was in town at the Grandel Theater courtesy of St. Louis Public Radio (fka KWMU).

If you’re not familiar, Planet Money is a project of National Public Radio,…

Grace Hill Settlement House and Catholic Charities Housing Resource Center are getting an award–and the money that goes with it–this evening from Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative.

Both have been named 2009 St. Louis Neighborhood Builders through the bank’s Neighborhood…

A slew of community groups that oppose Paul McKee’s NorthSide redevelopment proposal say they hope to take the matter to the voters.

Citizens for a More Responsible St. Louis Government and several other groups plan to launch a petition drive Thursday…

One in every 22 mortgages in the St. Louis metro area was at least 60 days past due in the third quarter, according to TransUnion; 4.5 percent. That’s more than twice the figure here two years ago, though it’s considerably…

Update: 3:19 p.m.

Just back from the signing ceremony. It went as expected, despite the rain.

About 50 politicians, business leaders and neighborhood residents huddled under a tent on the grounds of the Clemens House. Mayor Francis Slay signed redevelopment agreements that…

Word comes today that St. Louis officials are supporting a request of bondholders of the Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotels to help out in a plan to raise some money for the financially struggling convention hotel downtown.

A report of a…

The Environmental Protection Agency says JAX Limited Co., a property manager based in Manchester, will pay a $4,527 civil penalty and do $108,325 worth of lead paint removal work to settle claims it failed to inform residents and homeowners of…

Express Scripts said this afternoon that its new drug distribution plant will be situated at the NorthPark business park, which is across Interstate 70 from company headquarters.

The project comes with new jobs. Express Scripts says the plant will handle up…