With a focus on accelerating efforts to make Downtown St. Louis “safe, vibrant, and beautiful,” leaders from the City of St. Louis and the metro’s business community came together today to announce the establishment of a public-private partnership that will focus on accelerating the work needed to revitalize the heart of the metro.

Earlier this year, SLDC engaged an urban planning and geospatial design firm, Houseal Lavigne, to develop a hyper-local digital twin of the MLK Corridor, which has been identified as a priority demonstration area in the Economic Justice Action Plan.

As the economic development agency serving the City of St. Louis, SLDC is bullish about the future of Downtown. While we understand there are layers of disinvestment that are not going to be reversed overnight, SLDC is committed to continuing to invest in making our downtown a more vibrant epicenter for businesses, residents and visitors.

New pop-up shops with local vendors selling handmade items. Families enjoying dinner in new outdoor seating outside local restaurants. A major national retail chain opening their first store. These are the types of things Downtown residents, workers, and visitors will see as a result of new incentives Greater St. Louis, Inc. and the St. Louis Development Corporation have partnered on to attract retail businesses to Downtown St. Louis.

In celebration of 314 Day, today St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) hosted an event with elected officials and community leaders to share updates on the Economic Justice Accelerator, which it launched on 314 Day in 2023.

City of St. Louis is one of 25 cities to receive Bloomberg Philanthropies’ support to turbocharge local climate action and create more prosperous communities

On November 1, a community-led Redevelopment Plan for approximately 850 acres in portions of the Carr Square, JeffVanderLou and St. Louis Place Neighborhoods will be presented to the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Louis (LCRA) — a development board staffed by the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC).

Earlier this week, the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of the City of St. Louis (LCRA) closed on its acquisition of a building and 29 vacant parcels at 3940 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in St. Louis, Mo.

St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) recently made some organizational changes to strategically align its departments and significantly invest in new positions that will focus on the successful long-term implementation of the Economic Justice Action Plan.

On October 13, 2023, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones and St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) will host the 2023 Mayor’s Business Luncheon.

Beginning at 5 p.m. today, North St. Louis businesses and non-profits that have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and are located in targeted geographic areas can apply for the North St. Louis Small Business and Non-Profit Grant Program.

Partnership with the National League of Cities and Department of Labor Strives to Create New Jobs

After a competitive application process led by the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC), the City of St. Louis was chosen to join the Good Jobs, Great Cities Academy.

As of May 30, 2023 — a short 14 months after launching the Small Business Grant Fund — the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) is pleased to announce 900 businesses in all 14 wards across the City of St. Louis have each received a $5,000 grant.

St. Louis, Mo. (May 5, 2023) – The Missouri Department of Economic Development has awarded a $2.5 million grant to the City of St. Louis, administered by the city’s Community Development Administration, that will support the redevelopment of a 106-acre industrial site adjacent to Lambert St. Louis International Airport. With the grant, the site, called the Brownleigh Site, can be redeveloped for future advanced manufacturing opportunities.

Last night, at the Urban League of Metropolitan Saint Louis’ 105th Annual Dinner, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones and SLDC President & CEO, presented the organization with a check to represent its allocation of $10 million of New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) to the redevelopment and expansion of the Urban League’s Headquarters at the corner of Kingshighway Blvd. and Dr. MLK Drive.

SLDC Moves Economic Justice Action Plan Forward, Accepts $1 Million Grant from Mastercard Impact Fund

To support neighborhood capacity building and further activate the Neighborhood Transformation Pillar of its Economic Justice Action Plan, St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) is excited to introduce its new Neighborhood Managers Team.

Yesterday, the Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) of the City of St. Louis, Mo., Board of Commissioners — a development board staffed by St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) that has the authority to manage, maintain, market and sell agency-owned vacant and abandoned buildings and property in the City of St. Louis — adopted new sales policies to enhance economic empowerment, equitable and inclusive development and neighborhood transformation in conjunction with the Economic Justice Action Plan.

In conjunction with the opening of the Northside Economic Empowerment Center (NEEC), the Minority & Small Business Empowerment team at St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) launched its Back Office Support System (BOSS) Portal — a streamlined, tech-enabled system designed to build a community of small businesses throughout the City of St. Louis, especially North City.

This week, Advantes Group announced its progress on several redevelopment projects on Laclede’s Landing. Advantes acknowledged the redevelopment would have been possible without the assistance of St. Louis Development Corporation.