The hotels, restaurants and other attractions in downtown St. Louis will be the primary beneficiaries when the FIRST Robotics Championship competition takes place in April 2011 in the Edward Jones Dome. But St. Charles County will benefit as well if ...

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It’s not easy being green, but it does present opportunities. At least that’s the thought of Greg Prestemon, whose Economic Development Center of St. Charles County hosted a summit last week on green building. “I think there is a branding ...

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Is St. Charles haute enough to host a fashion week? If you ask Tom Hannegan, publisher of Streetscape Magazine and the brains behind the inaugural event, the answer is yes. “If you asked me five years ago, I’d say St. ...

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First-time homebuyers and new residents planning to buy a newly constructed home could receive $1,000 in closing cost assistance through a limited incentive program offered by HOME St. Charles, a non-profit subsidiary of the Economic Development Center of St. Charles ...

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The possibility was always there. But the news that General Motors Corp. would indefinitely shut down one of two production shifts at its Wentzville plant still came as a shock. About 900 employees at the plant, which makes GMC Savana ...

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The effort to make St. Louis a hub for China’s Midwest trade may not pay dividends for St. Charles County for many years to come. But that hasn’t deterred the county from making the investment. Early this year a working ...

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Greg Prestemon got to hobnob last Tuesday with President Barack Obama in the White House, one day after he and the members of his finance team at the Economic Development Center of St. Charles County were honored as the 504 ...

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Wentzville officials are starting to contemplate what was once unthinkable: the permanent shutdown of the General Motors van-assembly plant. This summer General Motors will shut down its Wentzville assembly plant for seven weeks. The automaker said the plant will close ...

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Small-business owners didn’t get much encouragement about the economy from two Republican congressmen during a town hall meeting held Thursday on the campus of the St. Charles Community College. U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, whose 2nd district includes the eastern portion ...

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“We certainly never dreamed we would reach this point,” said Joe Crenshaw, president of New Frontier Bank in St. Charles. Crenshaw was talking about his bank’s decision to foreclose on the Chuck-A-Burger restaurant, located at 3150 Elm Pointe Industrial Drive ...

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What are the jobs of the future, and how can St. Charles County attract them? Those are two of the questions local business and civic leaders want to answer, or at least investigate, during a jobs summit this Tuesday. “2009 ...

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