Otis Williams

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

Otis Williams, St. Louis Development Corporation executive director, is retiring this spring after laying the groundwork for a new way of doing business in the city.

The City of St. Louis on Tuesday released a draft of its master plan for equitable economic development. It’s calling for public comment until the end of August. The new framework points out where economic development is lagging and lays out goals to boost wages, grow jobs and increase the city’s population by 30,000 residents over the next decade.

A group of St. Louis economic development and civic leaders released a plan Tuesday detailing how the region could turn the geospatial industry into a…

Big businesses have more resources than mom-and-pop shops to withstand the economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, but they’re beginning…

In nearly two decades, the Cortex Innovation Community transformed a once-blighted, industrial part of St. Louis’ Central West End neighborhood into a…

Missouri officials have denied St. Louis’ request for $30 million in tax credits for a Major League Soccer stadium. A meeting scheduled for Tuesday to…

St. Louis asked the state Tuesday for $15 million in tax credits to prepare the site of a $461 million soccer stadium complex northwest of Union Station.…

Business, academic and civic leaders are coming together to plot the future of the geospatial industry in St. Louis. A new initiative announced Thursday —…

An aldermanic committee voted Wednesday to extend deadlines and renew tax incentives for the developers behind Northside Regeneration’s slow-moving urgent…