Economic Development

Kranzberg Arts Foundation has invested $50 million remaking the eastern end of Grand Center over the last decade. Its leaders are now calling for hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from new public and private sources.

The Port Authority Community Investment Fund grant program has been around since 2010 but took a pause last year. Over 80 applications were submitted this year, and 38 nonprofits were approved for funding.

AltonWorks, a company that's opened a coworking space and has several housing efforts underway, funded the project along with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

The developer hopes construction can start before the end of the year and be complete by next August. The new store will eliminate a food desert in the Metro East community.

The Community of Sunnybrook, which has 40 units, will provide needed affordable housing in the Metro East town, the developers and city leaders say.

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.