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SLDC pushes for new district surrounding future NGA site

Residents gathered Wednesday night at Vashon High School to hear about a proposal for a Special Use District surrounding the future site of the National…

Developer Paul McKee owns much of the land in this picture, looking north from the intersection of Cass and Jefferson avenues. After nearly 10 years, the city of St. Louis wants to cut ties with McKee and his NorthSide Regeneration initiative.

Government, Politics & Issues

How a 2016 deal, made out of public eye, makes it hard for St. Louis to cut ties with McKee

Rachel Lippmann

In 2009, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen approved developer Paul McKee’s $8-billion plan to transform nearly two square miles of north St. Louis. In…

Piles of concrete and brick line a fence separating the former Pruitt-Igoe housing development from the Gateway school complex. Parents and staff at the school say placing the rubble there stirred levels of dust high enough to sicken students and teachers

Education

NGA director talks to mayor about demolition work; debris near school to be moved

Ryan Delaney

Health problems at a north St. Louis school have gotten the attention of federal officials.That’s after many parents and teachers blamed respiratory…

Parents and staff blame illnesses inside the Gateway school complex on debris brought over from the site of the planned National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters. The piles tower over a fence next to the school. May 6, 2018.

Education

‘Dust bowl’ created by NGA project demolition blamed for sickening kids, teachers

Ryan Delaney

Isaiah Carson was happy and healthy on an early April afternoon as he worked on spelling with his dad at the family’s kitchen table.That wasn’t the case a…

The technology startup incubator in downtown St. Louis is currently home to nearly 230 businesses. About 40 others got their start at T-REX and have moved to other locations throughout the region.

Economy & Business

T-REX prepares for big jump into geospatial innovation

Wayne Pratt

A St. Louis technology incubator is devoting an entire floor of its historic downtown building to establishing a pipeline of workers and advancements in…

Economy & Business

Local NGA leader prepares for new headquarters and more demand for analysis

Wayne Pratt

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has a new executive for its NGA West headquarters in St. Louis.Brett Markham was recently named deputy…

Contractors move the house north on Jefferson Avenue on Sunday morning. (Feb. 26, 2017)

Economy & Business

St. Louis moves 3-story house out of NGA site

Maria Altman

Charlesetta Taylor was a 10-year-old when she and her family moved into the home at 2530 North Market St.That was back in 1945.But now, it's her house…

Economy & Business

Developer’s vision for old Pruitt-Igoe site includes hospital and hotels

Maria Altman

Northside Regeneration’s plans for the old Pruitt-Igoe site became public this week, including a $72 million complex of medical buildings, commercial and…

A rendering of what the new NGA campus might look like

Economy & Business

NGA director Robert Cardillo shares his vision of the new north St. Louis facility

Maria Altman

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or one of its many predecessors, has been in St. Louis for more than 70 years and has about 3,000 employees…

Jun Bae, a graduate of Washington University and rising documentary filmmaker, made a documentary about Washington University professor Bob Hansmen's bus tours of St. Louis.

Arts

What does a rising documentarian see when he comes to St. Louis from Tokyo? ‘A divided city’

Kelly Moffitt

When Jun Bae, originally from Tokyo, Japan, first came to Washington University, he didn’t come to make documentaries. And then the protests in Ferguson…