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Downtown businesses leaders want a better chance at attracting more and bigger events to the city. So they’ve asked state lawmakers to approve a unique district that could arm them with the tools they need to make downtown into an even bigger concert and event destination. We have that and more on this week’s episode of the Arch City Report.
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Would you live downtown? Odds are good that if you already live in the St. Louis region, you’ve already made up your mind that doing so isn’t safe. But one downtown developer has data showing outsiders who haven’t been exposed to downtown’s safety stigma are having no trouble making that choice. We have that and more on this week’s episode of the Arch City Report.
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South Kingshighway was once a bustling retail corridor touching a dozen south St. Louis neighborhoods. But years of disinvestment has left South Kingshighway in a state of disrepair. This week we introduce you to one family, the Garcias, led by brothers Ivan and Berto Garcia, which has taken it upon themselves to revive a nearly mile-long stretch of Kingshighway with new restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses. We also take a look at how Mayor Cara Spencer’s administration is shaping up and preview an event that will answer a pressing question: What exactly is advanced manufacturing?
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Most St. Louisans have come to know David Hoffmann as the man trying to turn Augusta into the next Napa Valley. But over the last several months, he’s emerged as America’s most aspiring newspaper magnate. He joins the Arch City Report with the story of why he wants to save news and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Some high-profile St. Louis nonprofits are in turmoil, including a well-known radio station that finds itself needing to sell its license and office tower. Meanwhile, other charitable groups are coming up with innovative ways to give back to the community, even as local giving has changed substantially in recent years.
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Baseball season is upon us, but after two years of declining attendance, the prospects this year don’t look good for the businesses that rely on visitors to Busch Stadium. This week, we take a look at exactly how much sales have declined in and around the ballpark.
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A series of national hockey events have all come to St. Louis around the same time as the Blues are battling for a playoff spot. This week, we ask the president of the Blues and the St. Louis Commission about what this says as a location for destination sports and for St. Louis’ claim to the title of Hockey City USA.
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The north-south MetroLink expansion, projected to cost as much as $1.1B, is light on ridership projections, but high on promise for what it would do to help reinvigorate north St. Louis. But with the Trump administration in power, transity agency BiState Development is having to change how it pitches its proposal for key federal grant money.
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The St. Louis-area counties west of the Mississippi might be the engine driving Missouri’s economy, but its Metro East counterparts can’t say the same in Illinois. Its economic output, data show, relies heavily on one major employer fraught with instability.
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The Business Journal is releasing its interviews with the candidates for St. Louis mayor in their entirety. Here, Andrew Jones outlines his vision for St. Louis.
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The proposal to redevelop the vacant Millennium Hotel site, like several other downtown projects, will rely heavily on apartments in a neighborhood where supply already outpaces demand.
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The Business Journal is releasing its interviews with the candidates for St. Louis mayor in their entirety. Here, city Recorder of Deeds Michael Butler describes his plan for spending the Rams money and increasing the city’s population, among other topics.
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The Business Journal is releasing its interviews with the candidates for St. Louis mayor in their entirety. Here, Alderwoman Cara Spencer outlines her vision for St. Louis.
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The founder of Saint Louis Bread Co., Ken Rosenthal, passed away last week. Hear what one of his original partners, and a former CEO of the company, has to say about Rosenthal’s legacy and the company that would eventually become Panera.
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An inside look at a move to create a land bank in St. Louis County, plus a conversation with SLU Demographer Ness Sandoval on whether the need for a land bank should be viewed as a sign of decline in the county.
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Development in St. Louis has declined considerably and we get into why it’s happened; Political disputes over how to spend the Rams money boils over at the Board of Aldermen, sowing frustration; And a look ahead at a big event next week where we get to ask: just how competitive is St. Louis?
Click this link to learn more about the AdvanceSTL event and for tickets: https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/event/171396/2025/advance-stl-the-strategy-for-selling-st-louis
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A local alderman explains their push to create a new position managing city operations; a bill in Jefferson City seeks to regulate a health care middleman with a big impact on St. Louis; and meet the Business Journal’s newest reporter.
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Two weeks after a snow storm hit the region, it’s still plaguing St. Louis residents and small businesses and casting a looming shadow over a pair of city elections.
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The Arch City report dives into the city’s earnings tax payout and we speak with a restaurant expert on what made Tony’s so special to St. Louis.
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Erik Siemers is joined by Jacob Kirn, Nathan Rubbelke, Gloria Lloyd and St. Louis Business Journal publisher Robert Bobroff.
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