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    Job Alert: Executive Director, Jefferson County Port Authority

    The Jefferson County Port Authority is accepting applications for a new Executive Director. The Jefferson County Port Authority is looking for an exceptional, results-driven leader as their next Executive Director. The…

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    October 13 Webinar with Federal Highway Administration on Primary Highway Freight System

    The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will host a public webinar on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. CT with a question and answer session on the re-designation of the…

  • A rendering of the new warehouse set to be built in St. Louis County.

    St. Louis County manufacturing facility to be demolished, warehouse built in its place

    This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on October 5, 2021. A real estate developer is demolishing a closed manufacturing facility in north St. Louis County and…

  • A rendering of the Center for AgTech and Applied Location Science and Technology (CATALST).

    Donald Danforth Plant Science Center wins grant to launch new geospatial/agtech innovation center

    This article was originally ran in St. Louis Business Inno on October 6, 2021. Three St. Louis-based innovation hubs are teaming up on a new initiative focused on advancing projects…

  • This rendering shows an aerial view of what the two speculative warehouses under construction at the Premier 370 Business Park in St. Peters will look like.

    Speculative warehouses to be built on last open sites at St. Peters industrial park Premier 370

    This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on October 1, 2021.  Construction is underway on nearly 800,000 square feet of speculative industrial warehouses in the last available lots at…

  • This rendering shows the fourth warehouse at Gateway Tradeport, which will be the largest in the industrial park at more than 1 million square feet.

    New Metro East spec warehouse would be largest ever built in St. Louis, over 1M square feet

    This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on September 28, 2021.  With demand for warehouse space at an all-time high, the St. Louis area will get its first speculative…

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    With Kings Point purchase, Belleville 201 follows local need for career, tech training

    This article originally ran on BND.com on September 28, 2021.  By this time next year, Belleville Township High School vocational and alternative education students will have a newly-renovated center in the former…

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    Apprenticeship Roundtable Event on November 16

    Tuesday, November 16, 2021 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Gateway Convention Center 1 Gateway Drive, Collinsville, IL 62234 Please join Madison County Employment & Training and St. Clair County Intergovernmental…

  • Riverboat Cruise Provides Opportunity to View Installation of the First of Three New Trusses on the Merchants Bridge

    Merchants Bridge Reconstruction Project Reaches Major Milestone

    Riverboat Cruise Provides Opportunity to View Installation of the First of Three New Trusses The $222 million project to replace the Merchants Bridge that links Missouri and Illinois at Downtown…

  • An unmanned MQ-25 aircraft, left, delivers fuel to an U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighter in June during an aerial test that originated at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah.

    Boeing to build Navy drones in new facility at Mascoutah airport, bringing 300 jobs

    This article originally ran on the Belleville News-Democrat on September 17, 2021. The Boeing Co. is building a production facility at MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah that will be…

  • A rendering of RLS LLC's new headquarters in Hazelwood, MO.

    Manufacturer moving HQ, 100-plus jobs to Hazelwood

    This article originally ran on the St. Louis Business Journal on September 15, 2021. A maker of fittings for HVAC and refrigeration systems said it will move from rural Missouri…

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    NorthPoint sets rapid pace along interstate corridor

    This article originally ran in the September 2021 edition of the Illinois Business Journal. Rapidly expanding Gateway TradePort in Pontoon Beach is becoming the center of Madison County’s logistical expansion,…