(2438,934,5,4,1276760229,'a:23:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-06-16 09:10 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:21:\"Not Alive...Just Yet \";s:9:\"url_title\";s:17:\"not_alivejust_yet\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:20:\"Not Alive...Just Yet\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:209:\"When one of our area’s major institutional buyers of construction recently held a meet and greet for their preferred consultants and contractors the event was vaguely reminiscent of speed dating over coffee.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:25:\"economy, recovery, market\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:5496:\"<p><img alt=\\\"Tom Headshot\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"278\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tom-headshot.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" />When one of our area&rsquo;s major institutional buyers of construction recently held a meet and greet for their preferred consultants and contractors the event was vaguely reminiscent of speed dating over coffee. Earnest networking was taking place among players who might have ignored one another in a similar setting a few years <br /><br />One executive from the organization that issued the invitation expressed mild surprise at the large turnout. Really there was no surprise at all. The construction companies were working connections and looking for opportunities in ways that told a lot about the state of the industry here and elsewhere. <br /><br />The construction industry has historically not been as sophisticated about marketing business development as the industries it serves. That is changing as we claw our way out of the worst downturn in our business since the Great Depression. <br /><br />Local business and general media has made much of the new projects that are coming online in Downtown St. Louis and among various industrial companies such as Express Scripts and P&amp;G. Accentuating the positive is a good thing. In fact it&rsquo;s great that there IS something positive to accentuate. <br /><br />But the idea that construction has made a comeback is out of sync with the reality that most people in our industry deal with in their jobs every day. It&rsquo;s sort of the reverse of the scene in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the dark comedy about the Middle Ages. A fellow is trying to make some money during the Black Plague by selling a body&hellip; except the &ldquo;corpse&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t quite dead yet. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not dead yet&hellip; I think I\\\'ll go for a walk,&rdquo; the corpse remarks. In our case, the industry &ndash; any popular reports to the contrary &ndash; isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;alive&rdquo;&hellip; just yet.<br /><br />The CEO of one of our area&rsquo;s most successful general contractors told me his company&rsquo;s volume is down $100 million from pre-recession levels. And he expects to take another $100 million hit on top of that. &ldquo;2011 will be the worst, &ldquo; he said. The CEO of another large general who has reported some big project wins in recent months points out that those &ldquo;wins&rdquo; were actually pre-recession contracts that have now been released. The same CEO said that the negotiated jobs the firm had been used to receiving are extraordinarily difficult to come by in this &ldquo;buyers&rsquo; market&rdquo;. <br /><br />Subcontractors, while desperate for work, are holding their cards close to their vest when bidding until literally the last minute &ndash; or turning in a late bid, hoping that someone will use it &ndash; in fear of being bludgeoned by bid shopping. Not too long ago representatives of some GC firms were quoted in the business press encouraging owners to take advantage of the sub&rsquo;s desperation. <br /><br />These are not the signs of a completely healthy industry. The long and short of our current situation is that we are beginning to come back, but we are a long, long way from being back. Our industry is trailing the rest of the economy. We&rsquo;re hearing reports that there are orders in for building materials associated with the retail industry. Industrial companies need to deal with deferred maintenance and are beginning to see increased demand that will lead to the need for increased manufacturing capacity. But our industry trails the rest of the economy. It&rsquo;s going to take some time for full recovery to happen. <br /><br />Healthcare, and to a lesser extent private higher education, have been bright spots in our local construction industry. St. Louis is a medical Mecca for the Midwest and as long as people continue to get sick hospitals continue to spend money. Educational institutions have been spending, but the endowments that they use for capital programs were hammered in the market. <br /><br />If there&rsquo;s a bright spot in this slow recovery it&rsquo;s that we&rsquo;re being forced to be better at what we do. It&rsquo;s sort of like training for an athletic event &ndash; no pain,&nbsp; no gain. Possibly a more apt metaphor would be recovering from an injury. <br /><br />As business practices are improving, we&rsquo;re being more sophisticated and more selective as an industry about the ways in which we market our services. <br /><br />The cover story in this issue on collection practices indicates an overall improvement over the previous environment in which contractors were reluctant to hold their customers to the same standards of payment to which they were held. <br /><br />Labor unions are working on maintaining market share recovery and putting their members back to work. The most obvious example of this is the settlement between the IBEW and NECA. The combined cut in wages and benefits and the change in work rule can represent as much as a 10 percent savings for owners on some kinds of work. This is the first such cut that IBEW has taken since the Great Depression. <br /><br />Overall, this tightening and refining process is a good thing for our industry, however painful parts of it may be. Our industry is coming back to life, better and healthier than it has been in many decades. But we&rsquo;re not completely alive&hellip; just yet.</p>\";}'),(2439,934,5,4,1276760265,'a:24:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"934\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-06-16 09:10 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"5\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:20:\"Not Alive...Just Yet\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:17:\"not_alivejust_yet\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:20:\"Not Alive...Just Yet\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:1:\"4\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:209:\"When one of our area’s major institutional buyers of construction recently held a meet and greet for their preferred consultants and contractors the event was vaguely reminiscent of speed dating over coffee.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:25:\"economy, recovery, market\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:5496:\"<p><img alt=\\\"Tom Headshot\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"278\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tom-headshot.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" />When one of our area&rsquo;s major institutional buyers of construction recently held a meet and greet for their preferred consultants and contractors the event was vaguely reminiscent of speed dating over coffee. 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In fact it&rsquo;s great that there IS something positive to accentuate. <br /><br />But the idea that construction has made a comeback is out of sync with the reality that most people in our industry deal with in their jobs every day. It&rsquo;s sort of the reverse of the scene in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the dark comedy about the Middle Ages. A fellow is trying to make some money during the Black Plague by selling a body&hellip; except the &ldquo;corpse&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t quite dead yet. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not dead yet&hellip; I think I\\\'ll go for a walk,&rdquo; the corpse remarks. In our case, the industry &ndash; any popular reports to the contrary &ndash; isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;alive&rdquo;&hellip; just yet.<br /><br />The CEO of one of our area&rsquo;s most successful general contractors told me his company&rsquo;s volume is down $100 million from pre-recession levels. And he expects to take another $100 million hit on top of that. &ldquo;2011 will be the worst, &ldquo; he said. The CEO of another large general who has reported some big project wins in recent months points out that those &ldquo;wins&rdquo; were actually pre-recession contracts that have now been released. The same CEO said that the negotiated jobs the firm had been used to receiving are extraordinarily difficult to come by in this &ldquo;buyers&rsquo; market&rdquo;. <br /><br />Subcontractors, while desperate for work, are holding their cards close to their vest when bidding until literally the last minute &ndash; or turning in a late bid, hoping that someone will use it &ndash; in fear of being bludgeoned by bid shopping. Not too long ago representatives of some GC firms were quoted in the business press encouraging owners to take advantage of the sub&rsquo;s desperation. <br /><br />These are not the signs of a completely healthy industry. The long and short of our current situation is that we are beginning to come back, but we are a long, long way from being back. Our industry is trailing the rest of the economy. We&rsquo;re hearing reports that there are orders in for building materials associated with the retail industry. Industrial companies need to deal with deferred maintenance and are beginning to see increased demand that will lead to the need for increased manufacturing capacity. But our industry trails the rest of the economy. It&rsquo;s going to take some time for full recovery to happen. <br /><br />Healthcare, and to a lesser extent private higher education, have been bright spots in our local construction industry. St. Louis is a medical Mecca for the Midwest and as long as people continue to get sick hospitals continue to spend money. Educational institutions have been spending, but the endowments that they use for capital programs were hammered in the market. <br /><br />If there&rsquo;s a bright spot in this slow recovery it&rsquo;s that we&rsquo;re being forced to be better at what we do. It&rsquo;s sort of like training for an athletic event &ndash; no pain,&nbsp; no gain. Possibly a more apt metaphor would be recovering from an injury. <br /><br />As business practices are improving, we&rsquo;re being more sophisticated and more selective as an industry about the ways in which we market our services. <br /><br />The cover story in this issue on collection practices indicates an overall improvement over the previous environment in which contractors were reluctant to hold their customers to the same standards of payment to which they were held. <br /><br />Labor unions are working on maintaining market share recovery and putting their members back to work. The most obvious example of this is the settlement between the IBEW and NECA. The combined cut in wages and benefits and the change in work rule can represent as much as a 10 percent savings for owners on some kinds of work. This is the first such cut that IBEW has taken since the Great Depression. <br /><br />Overall, this tightening and refining process is a good thing for our industry, however painful parts of it may be. Our industry is coming back to life, better and healthier than it has been in many decades. But we&rsquo;re not completely alive&hellip; just yet.</p>\";}'),(2440,934,5,4,1276784579,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"934\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-06-16 09:10 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"11\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"5\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:20:\"Not Alive...Just Yet\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:17:\"not_alivejust_yet\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:20:\"Not Alive...Just Yet\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:1:\"4\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:209:\"When one of our area’s major institutional buyers of construction recently held a meet and greet for their preferred consultants and contractors the event was vaguely reminiscent of speed dating over coffee.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:25:\"economy, recovery, market\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:5496:\"<p><img alt=\\\"Tom Headshot\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"278\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tom-headshot.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" />When one of our area&rsquo;s major institutional buyers of construction recently held a meet and greet for their preferred consultants and contractors the event was vaguely reminiscent of speed dating over coffee. Earnest networking was taking place among players who might have ignored one another in a similar setting a few years <br /><br />One executive from the organization that issued the invitation expressed mild surprise at the large turnout. Really there was no surprise at all. The construction companies were working connections and looking for opportunities in ways that told a lot about the state of the industry here and elsewhere. <br /><br />The construction industry has historically not been as sophisticated about marketing business development as the industries it serves. That is changing as we claw our way out of the worst downturn in our business since the Great Depression. <br /><br />Local business and general media has made much of the new projects that are coming online in Downtown St. Louis and among various industrial companies such as Express Scripts and P&amp;G. Accentuating the positive is a good thing. In fact it&rsquo;s great that there IS something positive to accentuate. <br /><br />But the idea that construction has made a comeback is out of sync with the reality that most people in our industry deal with in their jobs every day. It&rsquo;s sort of the reverse of the scene in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the dark comedy about the Middle Ages. A fellow is trying to make some money during the Black Plague by selling a body&hellip; except the &ldquo;corpse&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t quite dead yet. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not dead yet&hellip; I think I\\\'ll go for a walk,&rdquo; the corpse remarks. In our case, the industry &ndash; any popular reports to the contrary &ndash; isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;alive&rdquo;&hellip; just yet.<br /><br />The CEO of one of our area&rsquo;s most successful general contractors told me his company&rsquo;s volume is down $100 million from pre-recession levels. And he expects to take another $100 million hit on top of that. &ldquo;2011 will be the worst, &ldquo; he said. The CEO of another large general who has reported some big project wins in recent months points out that those &ldquo;wins&rdquo; were actually pre-recession contracts that have now been released. The same CEO said that the negotiated jobs the firm had been used to receiving are extraordinarily difficult to come by in this &ldquo;buyers&rsquo; market&rdquo;. <br /><br />Subcontractors, while desperate for work, are holding their cards close to their vest when bidding until literally the last minute &ndash; or turning in a late bid, hoping that someone will use it &ndash; in fear of being bludgeoned by bid shopping. Not too long ago representatives of some GC firms were quoted in the business press encouraging owners to take advantage of the sub&rsquo;s desperation. <br /><br />These are not the signs of a completely healthy industry. The long and short of our current situation is that we are beginning to come back, but we are a long, long way from being back. Our industry is trailing the rest of the economy. We&rsquo;re hearing reports that there are orders in for building materials associated with the retail industry. Industrial companies need to deal with deferred maintenance and are beginning to see increased demand that will lead to the need for increased manufacturing capacity. But our industry trails the rest of the economy. It&rsquo;s going to take some time for full recovery to happen. <br /><br />Healthcare, and to a lesser extent private higher education, have been bright spots in our local construction industry. St. Louis is a medical Mecca for the Midwest and as long as people continue to get sick hospitals continue to spend money. 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But we&rsquo;re not completely alive&hellip; just yet.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"11\";}'),(2441,932,4,4,1276784800,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"932\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-06-16 08:40 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:33:\"S.M. Wilson Has an IDEA in Dallas\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:31:\"sm_wilson_has_an_idea_in_dallas\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:33:\"S.M. Wilson Has an IDEA in Dallas\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:86:\"S. M. Wilson & Co. has formed a business partnership with IDEA Construction of Dallas.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:25:\"S.M. Wilson, Dallas, IDEA\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2213:\"<p>&nbsp;S. M. Wilson &amp; Co. has formed a business partnership with IDEA Construction of Dallas to pursue construction projects across North Texas that can benefit from the two firms\\\' combined resources.</p>\n<p>IDEA Construction focuses on the construction and renovation of religious facilities, educational buildings, medical and professional office buildings, office/warehouse buildings, athletic facilities and retail developments.  The company provides pre-construction services, construction services, and post-construction services in all of these categories.  S. M. Wilson specializes in healthcare, senior care, education and retail facilities construction, and offers pre-construction, construction management, design/ build and general contracting services.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'ve been looking for a partner to help us continue growing our business in North Texas, and IDEA Construction is a very good fit for us.\\\" said Scott Wilson, president of S. M. Wilson &amp; Co.  \\\"IDEA Construction and S. M. Wilson both share the same business philosophies, and we highly value our people and our clients.  Furthermore, IDEA Construction has developed an excellent reputation in the Dallas market. Combined with our financial strength and experience building larger projects, the S. M. Wilson/IDEA Construction partnership will be able to pursue projects worth up to $20 million.\\\"<br />S. M. Wilson has been active in the North Texas construction market having built 87 projects totaling more than $250 million in construction value.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'re very familiar with the local marketplace in North Texas, and this partnership will give us the impetus to move forward with an even greater level of talent and local experience,\\\" Wilson added.</p>\n<p>IDEA Construction was founded in 1985, and has built or renovated hundreds of projects in the Dallas area with over $250 million in construction value and was recently named to the Top 125 Texas Contractors List by McGraw-Hill.  \\\"The partnership with S. M. 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Midwest Block &amp; Brick invested approximately $2\nmillion for equipment, site work and modifications to the existing\n19,000 square foot building. The plant building is surrounded by\nMagnumStoneTM, Rosetta&reg; outcropping and VERSA-LOK&reg; retaining wall. The\nplant is located on five acres next to the current Midwest Block &amp;\nBrick facility in Jefferson City, Missouri.<br /> <br />Jefferson City was chosen for the construction of the new Pre-Cast Plant, due to its central location within&nbsp; the state of Missouri, and the close proximity to highway systems and easy access to multiple metro markets.&nbsp; Every\nMidwest Products Group facility, which includes 24 locations total in\nfive surrounding states, will be serviced from the Jefferson City-based\npre-cast facility.</p>\n<p>Jeremy Winegar has been named Manager of the new Midwest Block &amp;\nBrick Pre-Cast Plant. The addition of the new manufacturing plant\nfacility created 17 new jobs for the Jefferson City-based company.\nWinegar states, \\\"We feel fortunate to be producing products that are\nalready in high demand by our customers. An additional bonus has been\nthe ability to hire dedicated employees during this time of economic\ndownturn.\\\"</p>\n<p>CEO of Midwest Products Group Pat Dubbert expressed his appreciation\nfor the citizens and government of Jefferson City, noting \\\"We thank\nJefferson City for giving Midwest Block &amp; Brick the opportunity for\ncompany expansion, as well as our neighbors for their cooperation\nduring the entire construction process.\\\"</p>\n<p>Midwest Block &amp; Brick is a dry cast producer of building products such as CMU and Segmental Retaining&nbsp; Walls, as well as a distributor of clay brick, pavers, and natural stone.  The pre-cast plant will be a new operation brought into the company\\\'s existing production and distribution facility. 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The project was approved for $660,724 in brownfield\nremediation tax credits to remove asbestos and lead paint from the\nformer Missouri Boiler facility at 2310 Chouteau. The union purchased the the site from Green Street Properties. Green Street was awarded $5 million in New Market Tax Credits for Chouteau Crossing.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Local 36&rsquo;s present headquarters<img height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/local-36-square.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /> is located at 301 South\nEwing Ave., and its St. Louis training hall is at 3033 Spruce St. Those\ntwo properties, which total 20,000 square feet, will be put up for\nsale. The training school will more than double the size of its current\nfacility to more than 50,000 square feet.<a class=\\\"story_clink\\\" href=\\\"http://profiles.portfolio.com/company/us/ks/topeka/treanor_architects/2846226/\\\"><strong></strong></a></p>\n<p>Treanor Architects <a class=\\\"story_clink\\\" href=\\\"http://profiles.portfolio.com/company/us/ks/topeka/treanor_architects/2846226/\\\"><strong></strong></a>designed the Local 36 facility. G.S. &amp;. Construction Solutions AEC is the general contractor</p>\n<p>Union members agreed to pay into a new building fund, beginning in\n2002, at the rate of 30 cents per hour until the facility is paid for.\\\"The approval of this project has some incredible implications for\nLocal 36,\\\" said Local 36 President and Business Manager David C.\nZimmermann.&nbsp; \\\"It shows great dedication from our members towards\nbecoming sustainable and creating the resources to develop an elite\ntraining facility.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"I want to congratulate Local 36\nas they move forward with their new state-of-the-art headquarters,\\\"\nsaid Kaci Starr Tripplet, Alderman of the 6th Ward of St. Louis.&nbsp;\n\\\"Their continued presence in the 6th Ward and advancement of clean\nenergy principles in the building trades makes our city a cleaner, more\nenvironmentally friendly place.\\\"</p>\n<p>The new Local 36\nTraining School will more than double the size of its current 20,000-\nsq-ft facility to over 50,000 sq. ft. 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We are following the same philosophy as the Illinois office; hire local management and field staff and let them drive the business.\\\"<br /> <br />Headquartered in Fenton, MO, Kaiser Electric expanded its operations in 2008 across the Mississippi River into Granite City, IL.<br /> <br />Russell was hired to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Central Missouri division, which includes estimating and managing projects. He has more than 10 years of industry experience, having previously worked as a project manager and general foreman.<br /> <br />\\\"Jason has worked his entire career in the Central Missouri market, so he obviously understands its intricacies,\\\" Giacin said. \\\"He will have the full weight of Kaiser Electric\\\'s resources behind him. 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St. Louis-based KAI Design &amp; Build was the architect on the $950,000 project.<br /> <br />The new 5,000-square-foot building, located in an urban area at 11th and Paseo streets, houses the Kansas City Extension Center for Lincoln University, which is based in Jefferson City, MO. The new building incorporates classrooms and promotes West Central Region 1890 extension programs, such as the 4H Club and Agricultural Awareness. The Center also boasts six community garden plots for students to cultivate, complete with downspout barrels and gutter extensions to collect and disperse rain for watering the gardens. Programs at the Urban Impact Center target limited resource and minority audiences in the Kansas City area by providing survival skills in the areas of workforce preparedness, youth-at-risk activities, assertiveness, money management and personal health. 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The federal\ngovernment\\\'s tax credit for homebuyers expired April 30.</p>\n<p>The renewed slump in housing indicates that the sector\\\'s recovery\nearlier this year was almost totally dependent on government\nincentives.</p>\n<p>The Commerce Department said that construction spending\ndropped by 0.2 percent, after rising by a downwardly revised 2.3\npercent in April. Analysts expected a steeper drop.</p>\n<p>The decline was driven by a 0.4 percent decrease in construction\nspending on new homes and apartments. That followed a 5 percent jump in\nApril. The department previously reported that new home construction\nfell by 17 percent in May, and new home sales plummeted 33 percent to a\nrecord low annual rate of 300,000.</p>\n<p>The National Association of Realtors said the\nnumber of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in May\nto the lowest level on records dating from 2001.</p>\n<p>The Realtors\\\' group said its seasonally adjusted index of sales\nagreements for previously occupied homes tumbled 30 percent. The index\nfell to 77.6 in May from 110.9 in April.</p>\n<p>Commercial building projects also declined, the Commerce Department\nreport said. Spending on office buildings, shopping malls, and other\nprojects fell by 0.6 percent, its steepest drop since February. That\nfollowed an increase in April, the first rise in commercial building\nsince March 2009.</p>\n<p>The sector has suffered in the weak economy due to rising loan\ndefaults and tighter credit. 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But some\neconomists worry that those increases could decline in coming months as\nstate and local governments cut spending in an effort to close budget\ngaps.</p>\n<p>State and local construction spending rose in May by 0.6 percent, to\n$275 billion, while federal spending dropped by 1.3 percent to $30.5\nbillion.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:34:\"/images/uploads/recovery-graph.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(2463,944,2,4,1278348689,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"944\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-07-05 06:18 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:45:\"Missouri/Illinois Join Climb out of Recession\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:45:\"missouri_illinois_join_climb_out_of_recession\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:45:\"Missouri/Illinois Join Climb out of Recession\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:104:\"Missouri and Illinois are among 46 states which are showing sustained recovery over the past few months.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:35:\"recession, Missouri, Illinois, Reed\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4226:\"<p>Missouri and Illinois are among 46 states which are showing sustained recovery over the past few months, Reed Construction Data reported.</p>\n<p>The expansion in economic activity in 46 states in the three months through May is persistent enough to assure that a sustained recovery is underway. The recession is still lingering in Alaska, Montana, Colorado and Nevada which all experienced no growth in the last three months and had a steady or declining economic activity index in May.</p>\n<p>Missouri charts near the bottom of the states recovering, with a 2.4 increase in activity over the last three months and a 12.6 prercent drop in activity since the peak of 2007-2008. Illinois was up 3.5 percent in the three-month period and down&nbsp; The rise in the state economic activity indexes is consistent with May national data for jobs, consumer spending and factory production which all improved.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Recovery Graph\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recovery-graph.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />A broader and stronger expansion likely occurred in May based on early reports for jobs and consumer spending, specifically over 400,000 people hired for temporary 2010 Census work. Over 200,000 Census workers were laid off since the May jobs survey date and most of the rest will finish work in June or July. This will drop a few states back into recession conditions during the summer.</p>\n<p>The growth rates are the state economic growth indexes calculated by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank from state employment and income data which are benchmarked to approximately track national GDP growth. State growth rates are below the national growth rate. Most of the 1st quarter gain in GDP and a large share of expected GDP growth in the second quarter were due to reduced inventory absorption. This data is not available at the state level.</p>\n<p>Construction spending declined in May as residential building fell after a popular homebuyers\\\' tax credit expired, the Commerce Department reported.</p>\n<p>The report comes after government data released last month showed sales\nof new and previously-owned homes fell sharply in May. The federal\ngovernment\\\'s tax credit for homebuyers expired April 30.</p>\n<p>The renewed slump in housing indicates that the sector\\\'s recovery\nearlier this year was almost totally dependent on government\nincentives.</p>\n<p>The Commerce Department said that construction spending\ndropped by 0.2 percent, after rising by a downwardly revised 2.3\npercent in April. Analysts expected a steeper drop.</p>\n<p>The decline was driven by a 0.4 percent decrease in construction\nspending on new homes and apartments. That followed a 5 percent jump in\nApril. The department previously reported that new home construction\nfell by 17 percent in May, and new home sales plummeted 33 percent to a\nrecord low annual rate of 300,000.</p>\n<p>The National Association of Realtors said the\nnumber of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in May\nto the lowest level on records dating from 2001.</p>\n<p>The Realtors\\\' group said its seasonally adjusted index of sales\nagreements for previously occupied homes tumbled 30 percent. The index\nfell to 77.6 in May from 110.9 in April.</p>\n<p>Commercial building projects also declined, the Commerce Department\nreport said. Spending on office buildings, shopping malls, and other\nprojects fell by 0.6 percent, its steepest drop since February. That\nfollowed an increase in April, the first rise in commercial building\nsince March 2009.</p>\n<p>The sector has suffered in the weak economy due to rising loan\ndefaults and tighter credit. That has made it harder for developers to\nget financing.</p>\n<p>Government spending on highway and other infrastructure projects\nrose by 0.4 percent, the third straight month of gains. 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The recession is still lingering in Alaska, Montana, Colorado and Nevada which all experienced no growth in the last three months and had a steady or declining economic activity index in May.</p>\n<p>Missouri charts near the bottom of the states recovering, with a 2.4 increase in activity over the last three months and a 12.6 prercent drop in activity since the peak of 2007-2008. Illinois was up 3.5 percent in the three-month period and down&nbsp; The rise in the state economic activity indexes is consistent with May national data for jobs, consumer spending and factory production which all improved.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Recovery Graph\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recovery-graph.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />A broader and stronger expansion likely occurred in May based on early reports for jobs and consumer spending, specifically over 400,000 people hired for temporary 2010 Census work. Over 200,000 Census workers were laid off since the May jobs survey date and most of the rest will finish work in June or July. This will drop a few states back into recession conditions during the summer.</p>\n<p>The growth rates are the state economic growth indexes calculated by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank from state employment and income data which are benchmarked to approximately track national GDP growth. State growth rates are below the national growth rate. Most of the 1st quarter gain in GDP and a large share of expected GDP growth in the second quarter were due to reduced inventory absorption. This data is not available at the state level.</p>\n<p>Construction spending declined in May as residential building fell after a popular homebuyers\\\' tax credit expired, the Commerce Department reported.</p>\n<p>The report comes after government data released last month showed sales\nof new and previously-owned homes fell sharply in May. The federal\ngovernment\\\'s tax credit for homebuyers expired April 30.</p>\n<p>The renewed slump in housing indicates that the sector\\\'s recovery\nearlier this year was almost totally dependent on government\nincentives.</p>\n<p>The Commerce Department said that construction spending\ndropped by 0.2 percent, after rising by a downwardly revised 2.3\npercent in April. Analysts expected a steeper drop.</p>\n<p>The decline was driven by a 0.4 percent decrease in construction\nspending on new homes and apartments. That followed a 5 percent jump in\nApril. The department previously reported that new home construction\nfell by 17 percent in May, and new home sales plummeted 33 percent to a\nrecord low annual rate of 300,000.</p>\n<p>The National Association of Realtors said the\nnumber of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in May\nto the lowest level on records dating from 2001.</p>\n<p>The Realtors\\\' group said its seasonally adjusted index of sales\nagreements for previously occupied homes tumbled 30 percent. The index\nfell to 77.6 in May from 110.9 in April.</p>\n<p>Commercial building projects also declined, the Commerce Department\nreport said. Spending on office buildings, shopping malls, and other\nprojects fell by 0.6 percent, its steepest drop since February. That\nfollowed an increase in April, the first rise in commercial building\nsince March 2009.</p>\n<p>The sector has suffered in the weak economy due to rising loan\ndefaults and tighter credit. That has made it harder for developers to\nget financing.</p>\n<p>Government spending on highway and other infrastructure projects\nrose by 0.4 percent, the third straight month of gains. 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But even the funding on that work is in question.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:18:\"MoDot, Maintenance\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2734:\"<p>Reduced revenues have led MoDOT to cut its five-year plan back to essential maintenance. But even the funding on that work is in question.</p>\n<p>The state\\\'s new five-year highway construction program was approved July 1 by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission.  Only one-third the size of the 2009 program, it barely has enough funds to take care of the existing system.   Missourians will see very few new projects during the next few years.</p>\n<p>Stagnant state revenues, uncertain federal funding and no more money from Amendment 3 voter-required bonds is causing highway and bridge construction in Missouri to dramatically decrease - resulting in a program containing construction projects averaging only $500 million per year.</p>\n<p>\\\"We\\\'ve known this grim situation was coming,\\\" said Kevin Keith, Missouri Department of Transportation interim director. \\\"It\\\'s as if we\\\'ve fallen off a cliff.\\\"</p>\n<p>To cope with this funding challenge, MoDOT has adopted a five-year direction to deliver commitments promised Missouri citizens.  MoDOT will focus on keeping major highways in good condition, improving minor state roads and keeping pace with needed bridge repairs and maintenance.</p>\n<p>\\\"This five-year direction requires significant cost-saving strategies like reducing the number of MoDOT\\\'s salaried employees and operating expenditures for mowing and equipment,\\\" said Keith.  \\\"These measures are estimated to save more than $200 million that we\\\'ll use to keep our roads and bridges in good condition.\\\"</p>\n<p>However, there are consequences to operating with insufficient funds.  It means the department will not be able to address economic development opportunities, deliver corridor improvements or replace major bridges.</p>\n<p>The 2011-2015 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program lists transportation projects planned by state and regional planning agencies for fiscal years 2011 through 2015 (July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2015).</p>\n<p>The program totals $5.7 billion, with approximately $4.07 billion going to highway and bridge projects, about $970 million to other transportation modes and approximately $680 million to local transportation programs.   It contains any remaining Amendment 3 and Safe &amp; Sound Bridge Improvement projects.  It also includes transportation improvements identified by metropolitan planning organizations in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Columbia, Jefferson City, Joplin and St. Joseph.</p>\n<p>The complete list of transportation projects, as well as maps showing all highway and bridge projects and corridors to be completed, can be found at the <a href=\\\"http://www.modot.gov/plansandprojects/index.htm\\\">MoDot web site</a>.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(2466,946,4,4,1278352229,'a:25:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-07-05 07:47 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:47:\"Paric Completes BaratHaven Alzheimer\\\'s Center \";s:9:\"url_title\";s:44:\"paric_completes_barathaven_alzheimers_center\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:46:\"Paric Completes BaratHaven Alzheimer\\\'s Center\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:138:\"Paric has completed the BaratHaven Alzheimer\\\'s Center, located in Dardenne Prairie, more than a month ahead of schedule and under budget.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:17:\"Paric, BaratHaven\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:670:\"<p>Paric has completed the BaratHaven Alzheimer\\\'s Center, located in Dardenne Prairie, more than a month ahead of schedule and under budget.</p>\n<p>The $4.5 million project for the O\\\'Fallon Care Group, LLC included construction of a 31,396-square-foot, single story Alzheimer special care unit featuring 38 units housing 66 beds, as well as formal dining, living and activity areas, a salon and a central courtyard.</p>\n<p>Architect for the project was Wedgewood Architectural Services/LJB Designs of Vancouver, WA, with civil engineering services provided by Cole and Associates of St. Louis and structural engineering by Alpine Engineering of Couer d\\\'Alene, ID.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(2467,947,4,4,1278465271,'a:25:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-07-06 03:12 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:38:\"Moske Joins Raineri as Project Manager\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:38:\"moske_joins_raineri_as_project_manager\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:38:\"Moske Joins Raineri as Project Manager\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:69:\"Robert W. 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As the chair, she is the technical contact for 33 ASTM Standards.  Ms. Adams also serves as vice-chair of the subcommittee for Strength and Compressibility of Soils.  Both of these committees report to the Committee for Soil and Rock, which has more than 900 members from 40 countries, and develops or reviews more than 350 standards.<br /></p>\n<p>For Geotechnology, Inc., Adams serves as Manager of the Geotechnical Group\\\'s Soils Laboratory.  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But it doesn\\\'t have to be this way. A dose of discipline and a pinch of planning can do the trick.</p>\n<p>So what kind of preparation is needed to pave the way for growth? I\\\'ll condense my advice into two words: Look inside.</p>\n<p>That\\\'s right. Look inside your company for the answers. Sure there are things outside the business that require your focus - most notably the pursuit of customers. But what good does it do to attract customers if you can\\\'t live up to their expectations?<br />One sure-fire way to determine where some shoring up is needed: follow the frustration. If it bothers your employees or irritates your customers, pay attention. If it is a constant source of errors and re-work - if it is a thorn in your side at your current business volume, think what a pain it will be at 10, 25 or 50% more revenue.</p>\n<p>Nagging inefficiencies and stumbling blocks get in the way of growth. They are to your business what a governor is to a go-cart. Push the throttle all you want - you\\\'re not going any faster.</p>\n<p>As the owner, your people may insulate you from the truth. Get out of your office. Work alongside your employees. Visit your customers. Ask them all for the unvarnished truth. What\\\'s it like working or doing business with your company? What don\\\'t we do well? What are the frustrations? Where are the bottlenecks?</p>\n<p>What causes errors? 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Here\\\'s a small business version of this puzzle: What comes first - business growth or preparation for growth? Here\\\'s my answer: Start looking and acting like the company you want to be before you get there.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:25:\"Collier, growth, planning\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:3046:\"<p>What came first - the chicken or the egg?</p>\n<p>Here\\\'s a small business version of this puzzle: What comes first - business growth or preparation for growth?</p>\n<p>Here\\\'s my answer: Start looking and acting like the company you want to be before you get there.</p>\n<p>If you want to be a million dollar a year company, put the systems, processes, policies and procedures in place and then grow into them. Then once you get to a million, start laying the groundwork for the next plateau.</p>\n<p>For a practical analogy, pretend you like doing woodworking in your home workshop. But, you\\\'re sloppy, undisciplined and disorganized.<br />Suppose you\\\'d like to have a big, bright, well-equipped shop where you could produce all kinds of projects for friends and family. In your mind\\\'s eye, you can envision a new table saw and all sorts of power tools. Your shop would have cabinets for storing supplies, plenty of light, and a built-in system for vacuuming away all the saw dust as you work. This shop would be your pride and joy, and the envy of every guy in your neighborhood.</p>\n<p>Trouble is, it\\\'s a pipe dream. In reality, your tools lie broken, junk and debris is everywhere and you\\\'ve never bothered to build your woodworking skills. Any time you\\\'ve attempted a project for someone, they\\\'ve been disappointed due to your poor follow-through and general disorganization. You\\\'ll never realize your dream.</p>\n<p>It\\\'s quite simply beyond your ability to manage.</p>\n<p>Lots of businesses and their owners are in this same boat. But it doesn\\\'t have to be this way. A dose of discipline and a pinch of planning can do the trick.</p>\n<p>So what kind of preparation is needed to pave the way for growth? I\\\'ll condense my advice into two words: Look inside.</p>\n<p>That\\\'s right. Look inside your company for the answers. Sure there are things outside the business that require your focus - most notably the pursuit of customers. But what good does it do to attract customers if you can\\\'t live up to their expectations?<br />One sure-fire way to determine where some shoring up is needed: follow the frustration. If it bothers your employees or irritates your customers, pay attention. If it is a constant source of errors and re-work - if it is a thorn in your side at your current business volume, think what a pain it will be at 10, 25 or 50% more revenue.</p>\n<p>Nagging inefficiencies and stumbling blocks get in the way of growth. They are to your business what a governor is to a go-cart. 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The project was approved for $660,724 in brownfield\nremediation tax credits to remove asbestos and lead paint from the\nformer Missouri Boiler facility at 2310 Chouteau. The union purchased the the site from Green Street Properties. Green Street was awarded $5 million in New Market Tax Credits for Chouteau Crossing.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Local 36&rsquo;s present headquarters<img height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/local-36-square.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /> is located at 301 South\nEwing Ave., and its St. Louis training hall is at 3033 Spruce St. Those\ntwo properties, which total 20,000 square feet, will be put up for\nsale. The training school will more than double the size of its current\nfacility to more than 50,000 square feet.<a class=\\\"story_clink\\\" href=\\\"http://profiles.portfolio.com/company/us/ks/topeka/treanor_architects/2846226/\\\"><strong></strong></a></p>\n<p>Treanor Architects <a class=\\\"story_clink\\\" href=\\\"http://profiles.portfolio.com/company/us/ks/topeka/treanor_architects/2846226/\\\"><strong></strong></a>designed the Local 36 facility. G.S. &amp;. Construction Solutions AEC is the general contractor</p>\n<p>Union members agreed to pay into a new building fund, beginning in\n2002, at the rate of 30 cents per hour until the facility is paid for.\\\"The approval of this project has some incredible implications for\nLocal 36,\\\" said Local 36 President and Business Manager David C.\nZimmermann.&nbsp; \\\"It shows great dedication from our members towards\nbecoming sustainable and creating the resources to develop an elite\ntraining facility.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"I want to congratulate Local 36\nas they move forward with their new state-of-the-art headquarters,\\\"\nsaid Kaci Starr Tripplet, Alderman of the 6th Ward of St. Louis.&nbsp;\n\\\"Their continued presence in the 6th Ward and advancement of clean\nenergy principles in the building trades makes our city a cleaner, more\nenvironmentally friendly place.\\\"</p>\n<p>The new Local 36\nTraining School will more than double the size of its current 20,000-\nsq-ft facility to over 50,000 sq. ft. The extra space will allow more\nfull-scale mockups for training and provide additional classroom space\nthat will help Local 36 advance its green training initiatives.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;The former boiler manufacturing facility has a total of 128,000\nsquare feet in two buildings. In a separate building next to the\nunion&rsquo;s property, DynaLabs LLC, a pharmaceutical testing company, plans to lease 23,000 square feet of space.</p>\n</div>\n<div style=\\\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\\\"><br /></div>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:35:\"/images/uploads/local-36-square.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(2478,944,2,4,1279005107,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"944\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-07-05 06:18 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:45:\"Missouri/Illinois Join Climb Out of Recession\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:45:\"missouri_illinois_join_climb_out_of_recession\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:45:\"Missouri/Illinois Join Climb Out of Recession\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:104:\"Missouri and Illinois are among 46 states which are showing sustained recovery over the past few months.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:35:\"recession, Missouri, Illinois, Reed\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:4226:\"<p>Missouri and Illinois are among 46 states which are showing sustained recovery over the past few months, Reed Construction Data reported.</p>\n<p>The expansion in economic activity in 46 states in the three months through May is persistent enough to assure that a sustained recovery is underway. The recession is still lingering in Alaska, Montana, Colorado and Nevada which all experienced no growth in the last three months and had a steady or declining economic activity index in May.</p>\n<p>Missouri charts near the bottom of the states recovering, with a 2.4 increase in activity over the last three months and a 12.6 prercent drop in activity since the peak of 2007-2008. Illinois was up 3.5 percent in the three-month period and down&nbsp; The rise in the state economic activity indexes is consistent with May national data for jobs, consumer spending and factory production which all improved.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Recovery Graph\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recovery-graph.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />A broader and stronger expansion likely occurred in May based on early reports for jobs and consumer spending, specifically over 400,000 people hired for temporary 2010 Census work. Over 200,000 Census workers were laid off since the May jobs survey date and most of the rest will finish work in June or July. This will drop a few states back into recession conditions during the summer.</p>\n<p>The growth rates are the state economic growth indexes calculated by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank from state employment and income data which are benchmarked to approximately track national GDP growth. State growth rates are below the national growth rate. Most of the 1st quarter gain in GDP and a large share of expected GDP growth in the second quarter were due to reduced inventory absorption. This data is not available at the state level.</p>\n<p>Construction spending declined in May as residential building fell after a popular homebuyers\\\' tax credit expired, the Commerce Department reported.</p>\n<p>The report comes after government data released last month showed sales\nof new and previously-owned homes fell sharply in May. The federal\ngovernment\\\'s tax credit for homebuyers expired April 30.</p>\n<p>The renewed slump in housing indicates that the sector\\\'s recovery\nearlier this year was almost totally dependent on government\nincentives.</p>\n<p>The Commerce Department said that construction spending\ndropped by 0.2 percent, after rising by a downwardly revised 2.3\npercent in April. Analysts expected a steeper drop.</p>\n<p>The decline was driven by a 0.4 percent decrease in construction\nspending on new homes and apartments. That followed a 5 percent jump in\nApril. The department previously reported that new home construction\nfell by 17 percent in May, and new home sales plummeted 33 percent to a\nrecord low annual rate of 300,000.</p>\n<p>The National Association of Realtors said the\nnumber of buyers who signed contracts to purchase homes dropped in May\nto the lowest level on records dating from 2001.</p>\n<p>The Realtors\\\' group said its seasonally adjusted index of sales\nagreements for previously occupied homes tumbled 30 percent. The index\nfell to 77.6 in May from 110.9 in April.</p>\n<p>Commercial building projects also declined, the Commerce Department\nreport said. Spending on office buildings, shopping malls, and other\nprojects fell by 0.6 percent, its steepest drop since February. That\nfollowed an increase in April, the first rise in commercial building\nsince March 2009.</p>\n<p>The sector has suffered in the weak economy due to rising loan\ndefaults and tighter credit. That has made it harder for developers to\nget financing.</p>\n<p>Government spending on highway and other infrastructure projects\nrose by 0.4 percent, the third straight month of gains. But some\neconomists worry that those increases could decline in coming months as\nstate and local governments cut spending in an effort to close budget\ngaps.</p>\n<p>State and local construction spending rose in May by 0.6 percent, to\n$275 billion, while federal spending dropped by 1.3 percent to $30.5\nbillion.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:34:\"/images/uploads/recovery-graph.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(2479,954,2,4,1279870175,'a:28:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-07-22 08:40 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:66:\"Nixon Names Three Industry Leaders to Tax Credit Review Commission\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:66:\"nixon_names_three_industry_leaders_to_tax_credit_review_commission\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:66:\"Nixon Names Three Industry Leaders to Tax Credit Review Commission\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:326:\" Todd Weaver of Legacy Building Group, Shannon Weber of the Carpenters\\\' District Council of St. Louis and Vicinity, and David Zimmerman of Local 36 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association are among the members of the newly created Tax Credit Review Commission that will review Missouri\\\'s 61 tax credit programs.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:26:\"Tax Credits, review, Nixon\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2701:\"<p>Todd Weaver of Legacy Building Group, Shannon Weber of the Carpenters\\\' District Council of St. Louis and Vicinity, and David Zimmerman of Local 36 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association are among the members of the newly created Tax Credit Review Commission that will review Missouri\\\'s 61 tax credit programs.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tax Credits\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/tax-credits.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Governor Jay Nixon announced the creation of the commission on July 21. He charged the commission with making recommendations to cut the costs of Missouri\\\'s ballooning tax credit programs and make them more effective.</p>\n<p>\\\"Missouri must have sharp, effective development tools that will promote growth, create jobs, strengthen our communities and continue to drive our economic recovery forward. This commission will perform a critical analysis to ensure taxpayers receive the greatest possible return on investment from tax credit programs and that those programs are used efficiently and effectively. The work of the commission will play a vital role in reshaping the way the state uses financial incentives to achieve those important goals,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>Steve Stogel, president of DFC Group in St. Louis, and Chuck Gross, director of administration for St. Charles County, will co-chair the commission.</p>\n<p>Five legislators are among the 25 members of the commission. They are:</p>\n<p>Senators Matt Bartle (R- Lee\\\'s Summit), Jolie Justus (D- Kansas City) and Robin Wright-Jones (D- St. Louis) and Representatives Tim Flook (R- Liberty) and Sam Komo (D- House Springs).</p>\n<p>The other members of the Tax Credit Review Commission are:</p>\n<p>Zack Boyers of U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation in St. Louis; Mark Gardner of Gardner Capital in Springfield; Luana Gifford of the American Federation of Teachers in Jefferson City; Bill Hall of Hallmark in Kansas City; Dee Joyner of Commerce Bank in St. Louis; David Kendrick of the Kansas City Building and Construction Trades Council; Alan Marble, president of Crowder College in Neosho; Troy Nash of Zimmer Real Estate Services in Kansas City; Melissa Randol of the Missouri School Boards Association in Jefferson City; Tom Reeves of Pulaski Bank in St. Louis; Penney Rector of the Missouri Association of School Administrators in Jefferson City; Russ Still, a member of the State Board of Education from Columbia; Craig Van Matre, a member of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education from Columbia; Ray Wagner of Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis; and Mike Wood of the Missouri State Teachers Association in Jefferson City.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:31:\"/images/uploads/tax-credits.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(2480,952,2,4,1279870235,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"952\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-07-12 08:20 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"United by Design Gets Rolling Toward a Cure\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:43:\"united_by_design_gets_rolling_toward_a_cure\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:43:\"United by Design Gets Rolling Toward a Cure\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:195:\"Lance Armstrong\\\'s Tour de France may be pretty well over. But the St. Louis design and construction community is just getting rolling on a \\\"bigger than us\\\" story that revolves around bicycles.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:32:\"United by Design, Lawrence, Bahr\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3243:\"<p>Lance Armstrong\\\'s Tour de France may be pretty well over. But the St. Louis design and construction community is just getting rolling on a \\\"bigger than us\\\" story that revolves around bicycles.</p>\n<p>In a year when project pickings, construction unemployment is sky high and labor discord is making headlines some members of the design community decided to form \\\"United by Design,\\\" a cycling team based in the design professions, but crossing disciplines and firm lines.<br /><br />\\\"In an effort to bring the St. Louis Design Community together for a cause, a group of architects and sales representatives have set out to create a team for the annual Bike MS Gateway Getaway (MS 150) charity ride like none other; a team that is united by design.  We are coming together to raise awareness and funds for the Gateway Area Chapter of the National MS Society to help move towards a world free of multiple sclerosis.  Our goal is to put aside competition among one another and have fun while making new connections and supporting the MS Society,\\\" Tom Bahr of the Lawrence Group, co-captain of the team, wrote on the team blog <a href=\\\"http://www.unitedbydesignstl.com\\\">www.unitedbydesignstl.com </a></p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"United by Design\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/united-by-design.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Team sponsors are: <br />&bull; Atlas Carpet Mills<br />&bull; Cambria<br />&bull; CORE10 Architecture<br />&bull; Custom Blueprint &amp; Supply, Inc.<br />&bull; Helmkamp Construction Co.<br />&bull; Lawrence Group<br />&bull; Lighting Associates, Inc.<br />&bull; Niche - Furnishing + Design</p>\n<p>Arturis, HOK, and Christner, Inc., which field their own MS 150 teams, have affiliated with United by Design.</p>\n<p>The ride, officially the<a href=\\\"http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/bike-ms-gateway-area-chapter/index.aspx\\\"> Express Scripts Gateway Getaway Ride 2010</a> will be held Sept. 11 and 12. 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Eleven from the class of 2010 will take Ameren\\\'s pre-employment test on July 12, 2010 following in the footsteps of previous graduates.</p>\n<p>The 2010 commencement exercises included opening remarks by Valedictorian Brianne Bush, who earned a 3.9 GPA.  The keynote speaker for the program was the Honorable Darlene Green, comptroller for the City of St. Louis.</p>\n<p>The Class of 2010 is the sixth to graduate from the CCC, the first charter high school in the nation dedicated to preparing young people for careers in the construction industry. The school, founded in 2001 by the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis to help bolster the quality and availability of skilled construction professionals and trades-people in the St. Louis region, boasts 47 graduates working in the industry.</p>\n<p>The CCC provides a four-year, fully accredited high-school-level curriculum and broad exposure to the construction industry and relevant career and technical educational preparation. 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Past Leaders have included individuals aged 20 to 80 who want to contribute to the community by helping eliminate substandard housing in St. Louis; construction professionals, do-it-yourselfers, students, green building/sustainability enthusiasts, retirees and volunteers from faith communities. Robert \\\"Uncle Bob\\\" Porter was brought to a Habitat Blitz Build in 2001 by his niece. Now almost 80, he has been a house leader for five years. Henry Dayringer began his housing leading career in 2001, and has dedicated each Wednesday during the summer to volunteer.</p>\n<p>Registration for the Construction Leadership classes will be available in August. 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Here\\\'s last year\\\'s income statement for the fictional Joe\\\'s Computer Repair:</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sales $950,000 100%</li>\n<li>Cost of Sales $522,500 55%</li>\n<li>Gross Profit $427,500 45%</li>\n<li>Compensation costs $190,000 20%</li>\n<li>Other overhead costs $256,500 27%</li>\n<li>Total overhead costs $446,500 47%</li>\n<li>Profit (Loss) ($ 19,000) -2%</li>\n</ul>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Let\\\'s assume that sales are down 10% from the prior year.</p>\n<p>You can see that Joe lost $19,000 last year, and like most small business owners his first instinct is to regain lost revenues. Not a bad goal, but if that is Joe\\\'s singular focus, he may be missing opportunities and leaving money on the table.</p>\n<p>While doing what he can to restore the sales, why not also look elsewhere for financial improvements? Let\\\'s start with Cost of Sales.</p>\n<p>Most of the cost of sales is direct labor expenses, but some comes from the parts used. If Joe can reduce cost of sales by just $9,500 - by getting his repair team to be more efficient and working out a better deal on parts costs - Gross Profit goes up by that same amount.</p>\n<p>Now to compensation. Joe has 11 full timers. With sales of $950,000, that comes to about $86,000/employee. Sales/FTE varies by industry, but in general, anything much below $100,000 is cause for a closer look. With the dip in sales, Joe may have to reduce hours or even headcount. Getting down to 10 FTEs would put him at $95,000/FTE - a significant improvement. This is an important measure that deserves attention. For this example, we\\\'ll<br />leave Joe\\\'s compensation costs alone as there are enough real layoffs without me piling on fictional ones.</p>\n<p>Regarding overhead costs, can the team brainstorm on ways to cut costs and reduce overhead spending by just $12,000? 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Most of those cost are being paid by municipalities that invested in the project in hopes of keeping electricity rates low.</p>\n<p>Without providing details of the new agreement, the management company in charge of overseeing the plant said it had brokered a new deal capping the construction budget at \\\"approximately $4 billion.\\\" That amount does not include the project\\\'s total costs, including nearby coal reserves, mine development and transmission lines. Prairie State Generating Company, LLC and Bechtel Power Corporation finalized a revised engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement that will provide a fixed price for the total cost of constructing the power plant at the Prairie State Energy Campus.</p>\n<p>\\\"This agreement will provide greater price stability and economic predictability, which will benefit Prairie State owners and the customers they serve,\\\" said Prairie State President and CEO Peter DeQuattro said in a press release. \\\"The agreement supports our mission of delivering low-cost, reliable and environmentally responsible electricity.\\\"</p>\n<p>Prairie State is scheduled to begin operations of its first unit in the fourth quarter of 2011 and its second unit in the third quarter of 2012. On an installed cost basis, Prairie State will produce energy at a cost lower than other fuel sources, such as integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), natural gas, nuclear or geothermal, the developers said in a statement.</p>\n<p>\\\"This remains a good investment for our owners and the customers they serve,\\\" DeQuattro said.  \\\"Equally important, the project will invest approximately $1 billion in 21st century technologies, making it among the cleanest power plants of its kind anywhere in the nation. Prairie State\\\'s carbon dioxide emissions will be approximately 15 percent lower than the typical U.S. coal plant.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"Today, with a more stable market for materials and equipment, and the project moving well toward completion, the revised agreement is a sound approach for Prairie State, Bechtel and,most importantly, the customers who will be served by the new plant,\\\" said Alasdair Cathcart, Bechtel Power Corporation Senior Vice President and President, Fossil Power.</p>\n<p>The Prairie State Energy Campus in Washington County, Ill., is a 1,600 megawatt state-of-the-art power plant that will deliver electricity to more than 2.5 million customers through its public power owners. 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George Biderman, a Chicago native, originally came to St. Louis to sell Folgers coffee.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:42:\"Biderman, retirement, Tarlton, McGraw-Hill\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2595:\"<p>A St. Louis pioneer in applying professional business marketing techniques to construction services retired on Aug. 6, the day before his 65th birthday. George Biderman, a Chicago native, originally came to St. Louis to sell Folgers coffee.</p>\n<p>After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1968, Biderman served two tours in Vietnam as a Naval weapons, He began his sales and marketing career in 1971 with Procter &amp; Gamble selling Folgers Coffee and was transferred to St. Louis in 1973 where he subsequently met and married Mary, his wife of 35 years. They have two sons, Geoff, 25, and Brad, 28.  Brad is an estimator/project manager at XL Contracting and Geoff is completing his MBA at Webster University.<br /> <br />A headhunter placed George at Tarlton Corporation in 1983, at a time when contractors were just beginning to market their services.  Using his P&amp;G training that stressed, \\\"Differentiate everything that you do and then flaunt that that difference is better,\\\" George began to differentiate Tarlton with clever and unique signage, advertising, and marketing materials.  The cartoon signage, for example, that he created in 1985 is still being used by Tarlton.<br /> <br /><img alt=\\\"folgers\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/folgers.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Tarlton\\\'s marketing efforts drew a lot of attention and George became a frequent speaker at the regional and national levels for industry organizations such as the Associated General Contractors and the Society for Marketing Professional Services. He has been named a Fellow in SMPS<br /> <br />George started Biderman Consulting Group in 1993 to help contractors, subcontractors and suppliers better market their services. In 1997, Dan Frisbee, a former Tarlton VP, talked George into coming to work for him at Fru-Con Construction Corporationg to help grow a new building division that Dan started.<br /> <br />In 2002, he was recruited to open a St. Louis office for Raider Precast Concrete, headquartered in West Burlington, IA. He joined McGraw-Hill Construction after Raider was bought out and the St. Louis office was closed after a competitor opened a brand new plant just 40 miles west of St. Louis.<br /> <br />Biderman said he wants to stay in touch with his friends in the industry, and that he will stay active by working a couple of days a week as a sales/marketing consultant.  \\\"I have to get out of the house some days: My wife reminds me that she married me for better or for worse, but not for lunch every day!\\\"</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:29:\"/images/uploads/folgers_1.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(2537,972,2,4,1281592412,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"972\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2010-08-04 07:57 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:79:\"Settlement With Ironworkers Local 396  Calls for Wage, Training  Rate Increases\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:75:\"settlement_with_ironworkers_local_396_calls_for_wage_training_rate_increase\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:79:\"Settlement With Ironworkers Local 396  Calls for Wage, Training  Rate Increases\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:275:\"After a bargaining session that ran late into Tuesday night, contractors and representatives of Ironworkers Local 396 reached  a settlement calling  for a three-year agreement with $1.50 per year in wage increases and a 10 cent per year increase in contributions to training.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:51:\"Ironworkers, Erectors and Riggers, AGC of St. Louis\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:1382:\"<p>After a bargaining session that ran late into Tuesday night, contractors and representatives of Ironworkers Local 396 reached  a settlement calling  for a three-year agreement with $1.50 per year in wage increases and a 10 cent per year increase in contributions to training.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Ironworkers\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"216\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/ironworkers.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"183\\\" />The Associated General Contractors of St. Louis issued this statement to its members. &ldquo;A tentative agreement was reached late yesterday between AGC of St. Louis/Erectors &amp; 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Instead of looking just at the three Mississippi River counties Monroe, Madison, and St. Clair, the study area was broadened to the east to include Bond, Clinton, Washington, and Randolph counties.</p>\n<p>In summarizing both the reasons and the findings of the study, Navin said, \\\"we are not against the metro area, but we have to work independently.\\\"</p>\n<p>Vision 2020 included an assessment of the current economies of the 7-county region, a comparative analysis of other two-state metropolitan areas that are divided by a river, and a \\\"strength, weakness, opportunities, threats\\\" (SWOT) analysis.</p>\n<p>The study concluded with what T.R. Carr, chair of the public administration/policy analysis department of SIUE called \\\"a blueprint for progress\\\" for the next 10 years. The blueprint included:</p>\n<p>&bull; recommendations for channeling investment towards six industry clusters (logistics and transportation, heavy industry, light industry, energy, allied health, and agriculture);</p>\n<p>&bull; development strategies; and</p>\n<p>&bull; development initiatives</p>\n<p>\\\"In the past we let others define who we are. This process (Vision 2020) is important because this time we figured it out. We are defining what we want and how to get there,\\\" said Patrick McKeehan, executive director of the Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois.</p>\n<p>One of the key next steps over the next year, will be to establish a regional  brand, he added.</p>\n<p>Madison County Chairman Alan Dunstan agreed. \\\"The RCGA has been telling us what we are, now let\\\'s tell them what we are,\\\" he told the Vision 2020 group. \\\"When I travel, I tell  people I\\\'m from the St. Louis area, but now we need to come up with our own brand.</p>\n<p>\\\"We need to tell the people in Missouri what we want,\\\" he added. \\\"If they want to help, good. 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As often happens with such surveys, the business operators surveyed feel better about themselves than they do about their competitors: they think they are doing better than their competitors and they think the prospects for themselves are better than the prospects for their industry or for the economy as a whole.</p>\n<p>Marty Ramitti, director of MERIC, noted that economists are a little more pessimistic about the St. Louis economy than employers seem to be.</p>\n<p>After some slight job recovery in the short-term, \\\'experts think St. Louis\\\'s economy will be an \\\"L\\\",\\\' he said. In other words, St. Louis is in for a prolonged period of economic stagnation. According to outside experts, \\\"the St. Louis economy will not create one net new job in the next 10 years,\\\" compared to 2008, he said. That\\\'s equivalent to \\\"350,000 missed job opportunities in the next 10 years,\\\" he said.</p>\n<p>And there is some evidence that the state\\\'s economy already is stagnating. 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None of them calls for more than modest commercial activities - a cafe here or a beer garden there - all well removed from the Arch itself and all within the realm of accepted practices at national parks.</p>\n<p>Instead, the five design teams have presented inspiring visions for enlivening and reinvigorating the park grounds to make them more inviting and interesting for city residents and visitors alike.</p>\n<p>The various plans do incorporate some common themes.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme # 1: Everyone Channels Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p>Most of the plans seem to have lifted local architect Louis Saur\\\'s proposal (CNR March 2008) for the central axis of the park grounds en toto. Expand the museum and build a new visitor entrance above ground on the western side near I-70. Close or narrow Memorial Drive to reduce surface traffic. 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A lot of attention is given to connecting parkland on both sides of the river to St. Louis, incorporating them into the city\\\'s geography and relating them to development and redevelopment in the city, but there appears to have been little, if any, thought on how to connect the park to anything that exists in Illinois. As design plans get worked out, one hopes that some thought will go in that direction.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme # 5: Naturalize the East Bank</strong></p>\n<p>Recall the historic landscape by recreating wetlands, a canal, or an oxbow lake. Build a fake Indian mound. Build an agriculture museum, an ecology center, an avian research center or a wetlands research center. Have experimental farm fields, a farmers\\\' market, or an urban nursery.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme #6: More Ways to Cross the River</strong></p>\n<p>Build pedestrian promenades and bicycle paths on the Eads Bridge and the Poplar Street Bridge or MacArthur Bridge. 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Brad is an estimator/project manager at XL Contracting and Geoff is completing his MBA at Webster University.<br /> <br />A headhunter placed George at Tarlton Corporation in 1983, at a time when contractors were just beginning to market their services.  Using his P&amp;G training that stressed, \\\"Differentiate everything that you do and then flaunt that that difference is better,\\\" George began to differentiate Tarlton with clever and unique signage, advertising, and marketing materials.  The cartoon signage, for example, that he created in 1985 is still being used by Tarlton.<br /> <br /><img alt=\\\"folgers\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/folgers.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Tarlton\\\'s marketing efforts drew a lot of attention and George became a frequent speaker at the regional and national levels for industry organizations such as the Associated General Contractors and the Society for Marketing Professional Services. He has been named a Fellow in SMPS<br /> <br />George started Biderman Consulting Group in 1993 to help contractors, subcontractors and suppliers better market their services. In 1997, Dan Frisbee, a former Tarlton VP, talked George into coming to work for him at Fru-Con Construction Corporationg to help grow a new building division that Dan started.<br /> <br />In 2002, he was recruited to open a St. Louis office for Raider Precast Concrete, headquartered in West Burlington, IA. 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In \naddition, Paric went above and beyond usual diversity efforts with a job\n shadowing program.</p>\n<p><strong> Urban Transformation-Renovation</strong><br /> Washington University Corner Building<br />Owner: Washington University<br />Architect: Trivers Associates<br />General Contractor: Paric Corporation</p>\n<p>Judges\\\' Comments: \\\"This project makes a great statement: a great \nreuse of an existing building that required the project team to go \nbeyond what is typical in negotiating with historical preservationists \nto add an element to the building that is not historical - wind \nturbines.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Public Space</strong><br />Alton Riverfront and Marina District Amphitheater<br />Owner: City of Alton<br />Architect: Planning Design Studio<br />General Contractor: RCS Construction Inc.</p>\n<p>Judges\\\' Comments: \\\"A great public space that rejuvenates a city\\\'s \nhistorical tie to the river. 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The Museum received a record number of projects for new buildings and landscape and urban planning design from the most important firms practicing globally.  Selected this year by a jury in Mexico City, the annual program promotes international architecture and design to a global audience.</p>\n<p>With 15 design awards under its belt, including the AIA Central States Honor Award, the Society of American Registered Architects\\\' National Award of Merit, the Interiors Award for Sustainable Design from Contract magazine, the Citation of Excellence/Green Facilities award from Buildings magazine, an Award of Merit from Interior Design magazine\\\'s Best of 2009, in addition to numerous other professional and regional awards, the Power House continues to be recognized by the industry. 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The Power House\\\'s exterior shell and original structural steel were fundamentally sound, but use for a large, thriving design practice required significant imagination and rigorous design analysis.  The landmark Revival Style exterior was fully restored, and every component of the building\\\'s interior is designed to current life-safety codes and standards for environmental sustainability.</p>\n<p>Having a relatively small \\\"footprint\\\" but a massive volume offered the opportunity for the addition of new floors to accommodate Cannon Design\\\'s continuing growth.  The concept of mezzanines preserved the spectacular arched windows on the north and east elevations and provides gallery space for special events.  <br />Built in 1923, designed by Study and Farrar, and funded by an $87 million bond issue, the entire Municipal Service Building complex, of which the Municipal Power House is a part, is listed on the National Historic Register as locally significant for Community Planning and Development.  Engineering News Record wrote at the time, \\\"This is the largest, most varied and best planned program of municipal improvements ever attempted by an American city.\\\"</p>\n<p>Until circa 1980, the Power House provided coal-fired steam heat to a dozen downtown city buildings, including the Civil and Municipal Courts, Kiel Opera and City Hall.  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Other amenities include a double gymnasium with lockers, a fitness center, an indoor running track, and a community center with a senior center, teen lounge and multipurpose community rooms.</p>\n<p>The striking glass entrance to the recreation complex will offer a view of the pool areas and common space, and will open to an expansive circular light well in the lobby. A dining room will serve the pool areas and the multipurpose rooms. The complex will incorporate numerous environmentally friendly and sustainable features, and is designed to achieve LEED Silver certification. S. M. 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Here we offer observations from his notebook. \";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:26:\"Arch, Gateway, competition\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:5838:\"<p><em>When the National Park Service unveiled the five visions for transforming the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial from the five design teams picked to compete for the honor of redesigning the Arch grounds, CNR Editor Peter Downs attended the event. The following are his observations on the submissions:</em></p>\n<p>Those alarmed by earlier calls from former Senator John Danforth and Mayor Slay to privatize the Arch grounds to make way for commercial activities, including the National Parks Conservation Association and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees - will be reassured by the visions of the five design teams. None of them calls for more than modest commercial activities - a cafe here or a beer garden there - all well removed from the Arch itself and all within the realm of accepted practices at national parks.</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Arch Competition\\\" class=\\\"image-right\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/arch-competition.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Instead, the five design teams have presented inspiring visions for enlivening and reinvigorating the park grounds to make them more inviting and interesting for city residents and visitors alike.</p>\n<p>The various plans do incorporate some common themes.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme # 1: Everyone Channels Lou Saur</strong></p>\n<p>Most of the plans seem to have lifted local architect Louis Saur\\\'s proposal (CNR March 2008) for the central axis of the park grounds en toto. Expand the museum and build a new visitor entrance above ground on the western side near I-70. Close or narrow Memorial Drive to reduce surface traffic. Build an entry plaza or bridge from Luther Ely Smith park to the new museum entrance and build underground parking beneath Ely Smith park.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme # 2: Isn\\\'t Citygarden Great?</strong></p>\n<p>Let\\\'s extend it east through Kiener Plaza or recreate Luther Ely Smith park as another sculpture park.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme # 3: Get Rid of the Garage</strong></p>\n<p>The parking garage on the north end of the park is a barrier to Laclede\\\'s Landing and has to go. Let\\\'s replace it with a new visitor\\\'s center or a cafe or a playground or ...</p>\n<p><strong>Theme # 4: The East Side is Just the Undeveloped East Bank of St. Louis</strong></p>\n<p>Given the parameters of the design competition, it will come as no surprise that the city of East St. Louis has disappeared from the designers\\\' geography. A lot of attention is given to connecting parkland on both sides of the river to St. Louis, incorporating them into the city\\\'s geography and relating them to development and redevelopment in the city, but there appears to have been little, if any, thought on how to connect the park to anything that exists in Illinois. As design plans get worked out, one hopes that some thought will go in that direction.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme # 5: Naturalize the East Bank</strong></p>\n<p>Recall the historic landscape by recreating wetlands, a canal, or an oxbow lake. Build a fake Indian mound. Build an agriculture museum, an ecology center, an avian research center or a wetlands research center. Have experimental farm fields, a farmers\\\' market, or an urban nursery.</p>\n<p><strong>Theme #6: More Ways to Cross the River</strong></p>\n<p>Build pedestrian promenades and bicycle paths on the Eads Bridge and the Poplar Street Bridge or MacArthur Bridge. Have ferries or water taxis cross the river from one park to the other or, more ambitious yet, build gondolas to soar over the river from the south end of the Arch grounds to the Malcolm Martin Park on the east side and back.</p>\n<p>Certainly, the various plans differ in detail and in many other attractions and developments they include, from a floating stage on the east side to manmade \\\"urban bluffs\\\" built in the river in front of the Arch. One plan calls for more activities, including picnicking, on the cobblestone levee, another calls for a floating swimming pool in the river, a third calls for a swimming barge.</p>\n<p>Some of the design teams appear unaware of how often the Mississippi River floods, or even of the prolonged flooding this summer, while one team would highlight the varying river levels as part of the Arch experience by putting highly visible flood gauges in the river in front of the Arch grounds.</p>\n<p>And three of the design teams seem to like ice skating, but not rollerblading or roller skating, siting ice skating rinks either in the Gateway Mall or at one end or another of the Arch grounds.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong>SEE THE DESIGN CONCEPTS ONLINE<br /> </strong></p>\n<p>To view all of the finalists\\\' submissions, <a href=\\\"http://www.cityarchrivercompetition.org/finalists/\\\">click here</a>.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><strong>SEE THE DESIGN CONCEPTS IN PERSON AND SHARE YOUR VIEWS</strong></p>\n<p>Arch Lobby: 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Aug. 17 - Sept. 24 <br />Public comments welcomed through Aug. 23.</p>\n<p>Missouri Botanical Garden, Orthwein Hall, <br />9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Aug. 17-19</p>\n<p>Southwestern Illinois College, Main Complex, 2nd Floor Hallway <br />8 a.m. - 6 p.m., Aug. 21-22 <br />8-10 p.m., Aug. 23-24</p>\n<p>National Great Rivers Museum, 2 Lock and Dam Way, Alton <br />9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Aug. 27-29</p>\n<p>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Morris Center <br />8 a.m. - 8 p.m, Aug. 31 - Sept. 2</p>\n<p>Maryville University, University Library, Monsanto Room <br />10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sept. 4 - 6</p>\n<p>University of Missouri - St. Louis, J.C. 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In 1963 Downtown St. Louis Inc. began a dialogue with Walt and Roy Disney for a development on the riverfront that was dubbed \\\"Riverfront Square.\\\"</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Tom and Balloons\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"363\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/3Z8E7299_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"150\\\" />In a chapter titled \\\"Walt Disney\\\'s Vision for Downtown St. Louis,\\\" the book\\\'s authors wrote, \\\"Dozens of cities had invited Walt Disney to build another Disneyland Park. He showed no serious interest in any such undertaking until business and civic leaders from St. Louis approached him...\\\"</p>\n<p>Actually, the book states, Disney was first approached about producing a film about the 200th anniversary of St. Louis. If you\\\'re old enough you remember the St. Louis bicentennial fl ags and license plates and other hoopla of the time. Walt Disney demurred, suggesting that the area would be better served by the construction of something permanent where St. Louisans and visitors could gather and enjoy the riverfront. Actually, it sounds a lot like today\\\'s lakefront in Chicago.<br /><br />Walt Disney presented his concept at a press conference at the old Bel Air Hilton at Fourth Street and Washington Avenue. The civic fathers couldn\\\'t get past the notions that Disney wanted to own and develop \\\"Riverfront Square\\\" himself and that he wanted it to be a booze-free zone. <br /><br />Afterwards at a private gathering for Disney and civic leaders August Busch Jr. made a remark in a very loud voice to the effect that, \\\"Any man who would build something like that and not serve beer and liquor inside is crazy.\\\"<br /><br />If you\\\'ve been to Laclede\\\'s Landing or Soulard recently, you might argue that maybe Walt had something on the ball. In any event, he packed his Mickey Mouse ears and left town to devote his energies to a little project he had begun in Orlando, FL.<br /><br />The history of our riverfront is very much a reflection of St. Louis\\\' many abortive efforts to develop a regional identity. I would argue that when it comes to such issues as the riverfront we need to fi nd a way to get over ourselves, get behind our leadership, and get moving.<br /><br />I love the reaction of the British public to the idea, recentlyfloated by their government, of creating a national motto. In short, they refuse to take the idea seriously. The winner of a contest sponsored by a British newspaper was \\\"No Motto Please, We\\\'re British.\\\"<br /><br />The British have a sense of who they are -- and who they are not. St. Louis, by contrast is still searching for its identity after almost three centuries. The closest we\\\'ve come so far in my opinion has been critic Joe Pollack\\\'s \\\"St. Louis is where trends come to die.\\\" Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan points out that St. Louis is probably the hub of the universe when it comes to unrealized studies and plans for revitalizing the area.<br /><br />What would it take for us to begin identifying ourselves by what we AREas a region, instead of what we are not? Probably we\\\'d have to start by facing the truth. 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It doesn\\\'t. &ldquo;All the low price buys you is change orders.&rdquo;&nbsp; <br />\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">Black, co-author of <em>The Commercial Real Estate Revolution</em>, is coming to\nSt. Louis next week to discuss &ldquo;the nine transforming keys to lowering costs,\ncutting waste and driving change&rdquo; in commercial real estate and construction in\na program sponsored by the St. Louis chapter of CREW (Commercial Real Estate\nWomen) and the mid-America chapter of IIDA (International Interior Design\nAssociation).</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\"><img alt=\\\"Price Tag\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/price_tag.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: right;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Black,\nstrategic business solutions director for Haworth, Inc., said the message of <em>The\nCommercial Real Estate Revolution</em> is aimed at owners. &ldquo;The good contractors\nget it, but owners won\\\'t let them do it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Owners set the tone. They\nare critical in making the change,&rdquo; he said. And right now, owners are responsible\nfor one of the critical problems in the industry: low-price bidding.</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">Owners\nhave fooled themselves into thinking that low-price bidding equals low cost\nconstruction, he said. It doesn\\\'t. &ldquo;All the low price buys you is change\norders,&rdquo; he said.</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">As a former\nconstruction estimator for a commercial roofing contractor, Black said, &ldquo;I\noften knew what our<span>&nbsp; </span>first change order\nwould be as soon as I knew who the architect was, because I knew from\nexperience that some architects made the same mistake all the time and I always\ntook advantage of that loophole. If I had to play the bait and switch change\norder game because you wanted the low price and your documents were flawed, I\nwould, because contrary to popular belief, a contractor is not a charitable\norganization.&rdquo;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\">&ldquo;The definition of the low bidder is whoever made the\nbiggest mistake,&rdquo; he added, &ldquo;but most \\\'mistakes\\\' are deliberate and you make\nthem because you have six change orders in your back pocket that you know from\nexperience you will get.&rdquo;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">In\nessence, there are two kinds of contractors in the market, Black said,\n&ldquo;relationship based contractors and change order based contractors, and as an\nowner you have to decide which you want.&rdquo;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">The\ncommercial real estate revolution, according to Black: trust-based project\nteams, early collaboration among team members, built-in sustainability, and\ntransformational leadership by owners.</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&ldquo;It is not\nabout eliminating competition, but about intelligent bid selection based on\nmore than just low price,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;When customers select teams based on\nknowledge and ability, they end up with better designs without spending more\nmoney.</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&ldquo;And there\nis a lot of knowledge and expertise at the contractor and subcontractor levels.\nWhen you bring the contractor and major trades into the team early to\ncollaborate on the design, you get solutions that are constructable and\ninherently cost effective, because that is how they are trained to think,&rdquo; he\nsaid.</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">For\ncontractors, he has this piece of advice: Identity customers who are fed up with\nthe usual way of doing business and offer them a workable alternative. &ldquo;They\nare the real opportunities,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but if no one brings them a different\nmenu they will continue to make unhealthy choices.&rdquo;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">Doing the\nsame things for the next 10, 15, or 20 years that the industry is doing now\nwill drive capable people out the industry, worsen service, and hurt business\ncompetitiveness. &ldquo;The industry has to change,&rdquo; he said.</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoBodyText\\\" style=\\\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;\\\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p class=\\\"MsoNormal\\\">You can hear Bill Black on Tuesday, September 14, at 5 p.m.\nAt the Edward Jones Learning Center, 130 Edward Jones Boulevard in Maryland\nHeights. 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