Economic Development

The recommendation from the commission now goes to the city council, which makes the final decision.

British Airways is the latest airline to add service at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. Flights are to begin in April.

Biking advocate group Trailnet and city leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of bike lanes to improve pedestrian safety along Tucker Boulevard.

The bill makes it easier to construct carriage houses in St. Louis neighborhoods as part of a push to ease housing restrictions in the city.

Kavahn Mansouri joins St. Louis Public Radio from the NPR Midwest Newsroom, where he served as an investigative reporter covering Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska for three and a half years.

The closest grocery stores for Venice residents are more than four miles away in Granite City, making the community a food desert by the federal government’s standards.

Leaders of the Metro East city believe the project will be transformative. Construction on buildings will begin in one year, and the developers say it will be complete by 2033.

The city has made progress on two prominent vacant buildings in the past year, but rebounding from a “real estate nightmare” will take many more years.

“They’re talking about having a $400 to $500 million development,” Mayor Mike Leopold said Monday night. “It’s one of the biggest developments that Swansea will ever get.”

A location has not yet been decided, but leaders from four counties in the St. Louis area say the regional facility will provide training courses for new recruits and veteran officers.