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…

Updated 3:06 p.m.

After sitting vacant and polluted for almost 20 years, the 42-acre Carondelet Coke site in south St. Louis will soon get a thorough scrubbing, in preparation for a 650,000 square foot business park.

State economic development officials today awarded…

While his position supporting the renovation of the Kiel Opera House is no secret (the $74 million deal to do so was negotiated by his office, after all), St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay himself has said little on the matter…

We’ll continue to follow the vast, developing proposal for north St. Louis being unveiled by McEagle Properties and its chairman Paul McKee (see the latest, in this morning’s paper, here.)

And we’re not the only ones watching.

• Mayor Francis Slay weighed…

Mayor Francis Slay gave his third inaugural address today at City Hall. He touched on just about every issue facing the city, from schools to government reform to management of the Police Department, and looked forward to the St. Louis…

Just came back from St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s pre-primary sit-down with the Post-Dispatch editorial board. In an hour-plus discussion that ranged from schools to crime to race relations in St. Louis, Slay touched several times on the city’s development…

St. Louis aldermen meet tomorrow to consider what is supposed to be the final development agreement for Ballpark Village, where the main feature this week is the “Cubs suck” sign jokesters wrote in giant letters in the snow.

Over and over,…