City Foundry

Gerard Craft, chef and Niche Food Group’s CEO, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, at Expat in St. Louis’ newly-formed Prospect Yards neighborhood. The new BBQ joint is situated in the City Foundry Food Hall.

Gerard Craft’s latest restaurant imagines barbecue through an expat’s eyes

Abby Llorico

At Expat, the James Beard-award winning chef combines international flavors with familiar techniques to create a barbecue spot inspired by wanderlust, homesickness — and hunger.

Traffic moves along Interstate 64 on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in Midtown. The Great Rivers Greenway’s Brickline Greenway project was awarded $9.9 million as part of the Department Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods Program to build a greenway bridge between the highways westbound and eastbound lanes.

Economy & Business

Greenway gets $9.9M in federal funds to build path from Metro to City Foundry and Armory

Kate Grumke

The new section of the project received funding from a Biden administration initiative to reconnect communities that were divided by mid-century highway projects.

Omar Badran is a co-owner of VibeSzn STL, a local custom jewelry store.

Economy & Business

How a St. Louis jewelry company is making it big on social media — and at City Foundry

Miya Norfleet

VibeSzn began as an online business in 2017. It now has a retail location at City Foundry and has amassed nearly 200,000 followers on Instagram.

A collection of dishes from many of the 16 kitchens at City Foundry STL.

Economy & Business

What to eat at City Foundry STL and 2 new restaurants to try this month

Alex Heuer

The midtown retail, entertainment and food destination has 16 kitchens and another on the way from acclaimed chef Gerard Craft.

GiftAMeal, a St. Louis based food technology startup, is teaming up with the City Foundry’s food hall to give back food to people in need with a mobile app.

Economy & Business

A picture is worth thousands of meals as food technology startup helps address food insecurity

Marissanne Lewis-Thompson

City Foundry’s food hall is the latest to work with St. Louis-based food technology startup GiftAMeal to address hunger in the region. Customers who visit any of the City Foundry’s food concepts can download the free GiftAMeal mobile app, take a photo of their food and upload it. The startup donates money to Operation Food Search for every photo uploaded.

City Foundry STL opens its Food Hall to the public for the first time on Aug. 11.

Economy & Business

For City Foundry STL, Aug. 11 Is The Big Day

Sarah Fenske

The Food Hall of the new City Foundry STL opens Aug. 11. Susie Bonwich and Will Smith discuss the long-awaited $210 million project.

City Foundry officials say roughly 50% of retail and entertainment spaces are available. It is at full capacity for office space.

Economy & Business

St. Louis’ Renegotiation Of City Foundry Tax Incentives Could Pave Way For More Equitable Growth

Corinne Ruff

A wave of new city leaders are hoping to change the way the city uses tax incentives to do business with developers.

Office space has already opened in the massive mixed-use development along I-64.

City Foundry Development Presses On In Midtown St. Louis Despite Pandemic

Wayne Pratt

Developers of the City Foundry project in St. Louis are planning to have some key sections open to the public in the middle of this year.

The City Foundry STL redevelopment will include a dining hall, grocery store and movie theatre in its $220 million first phase.

Economy & Business

City Foundry Transformation Underway Along I-64 In St. Louis

Wayne Pratt

A massive redevelopment project at a high-profile site in St. Louis’ Midtown area is on track to open next year. The first phase of City Foundry STL will…

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson discusses the St. Louis Opportunity Zones with St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson.

Government, Politics & Issues

Secretary Ben Carson Tours St. Louis HUD Developments, Low-Income ‘Opportunity Zones’

Chad Davis

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Friday met with Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, U.S.…