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FreightWeekSTL tour touts river infrastructure Tour touts waterway infrastructure FacebookTwitterEmail 1of8 Participants of a riverboat cruise on the Tom Sawyer talk with the Eads Bridge in the background. The tour was one of the few live events of FreightWeekSTL2021, an annual industry conference sponsored in part by St. Louis Regional Freightway, an arm of Bi-State Development. The tour gave people a chance to see the industrial operations on the river as well as infrastructure improvement. Show MoreShow Less 2of8 Kathy and Mike Wever from the Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois look at information about the transportation industry during a riverboat cruise Wednesday during FreightWeekSTL2021. Show MoreShow Less ....
St. Louis Public Radio Otis Williams, leader of the St. Louis Development Corporation, will retire this spring once a new executive director is named. The future of economic development in St. Louis will be in the hands of new leaders. Newly elected Mayor Tishaura Jones will work with a fresh face at the city’s economic development department after longtime director Otis Williams retires this spring. Williams spent more than two decades at the St. Louis Development Corporation, where he became director in 2013. He’s departing after laying the groundwork for a shift in the way the city does business with developers. ....
St. Louis Public Radio Treasurer Tishaura Jones answers a question during a March 30 debate hosted by St. Louis Public Radio, Nine PBS, 5 On Your Side and the St. Louis American. Tuesday’s election for mayor of St. Louis will be historic in many ways. A new system of voting means the general election will decide the winner for the first time in decades. It’s the first time two women Treasurer Tishaura Jones and Alderwoman Cara Spencer, D-20th Ward are competing for the office head-to-head. And as a Black woman, Jones would break a remaining barrier for the office. It took the city until 1993 to elect a Black mayor, and until 2017 to elect a woman chief executive. ....
Advancing Education The metro region offers plenty of advanced education options, including online degree programs, apprenticeships, and trade schools. andresr Getty Images If thereâs one word to describe St. Louisâ post-secondary education options, itâs robust. The metro area has more universities on one road, Big Bend Boulevard, than some entire towns do. (For the record, you pass four: St. Louis Community CollegeâMeramec, Webster University,Fontbonne University, and Washington University in St. Louis.) Washington University in St. Louis And these colleges and universities have been striving to provide more access to a quality education by leveling the admissions playing field, catering to all types of learners, and providing flexible degree options. ....
/ The old Steelcote Manufacturing Company Paint Factory, shown in 2017, was recently converted into loft apartments. A new St. Louis University study finds when manufacturing companies close, the land shifts to commercial real estate and jeopardizes the industry. The city of St. Louis is losing nearly seven small to mid-size manufacturing companies per year. When they go, their buildings are either left vacant or replaced with trendy coffee shops and loft apartments. Sarah Coffin, an urban planning professor at St. Louis University, describes this shift in land use as “industrial gentrification.” “It s the displacement of industry,” she said. “And the argument that we re saying is that when industry decides to move, they have to decide that they want to stay in the city, because it s no different moving from the city of St. Louis to St. Charles County, or to Texas.” ....