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…

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…

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…

Among the effects of a bank failure in Chicago is a delay in the multimillion-dollar renovation of the Marriott Hotel at Union Station in downtown St. Louis.

Owner Gus Cervetto of Chesterfield-based CB&E Construction Group says he pulled his dozen or…

Vetta Sports says it will open a 32,000-square-foot indoor soccer facility this month in O’Fallon, Ill.

Under roof will be two soccer fields, Vetta Sports owner Peter Spanos says. The facility, scheduled to open Nov. 15, will host youth and adult…

View from 7th and Washington; One City Centre in background

In case you missed it, today’s P-D has a story (read it here) about plans to redo St. Louis Centre.

The plan is interesting and it’s part of a project to make over…

A federal budget bill which passed the Senate Thursday night includes $500,000 for St. Louis’ efforts to develop a Chinese cargo hub at Lambert International Airport, Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond said today.

It’s money which could go a long way towards…

A bar is set to open this month in the newly remodeled building next to St. Louis University at 3693 Forest Park Avenue.

Called the Library Annex, the bar will occupy the ground floor of the newly redone building McGowan Brothers Development converted…

Bondholders of the financially struggling Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotels are scheduled to get together next week by telephone to hear the latest about the hotel’s weakening pulse.

The conference call is set for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 12. The nearly 1,100-room convention…