St. Louis County Shovel-Ready for Stimulus

St. Louis County has submitted a package that asks for funding for 95 projects totaling $1.8 billion, David Leezer, vice president of the  Economic Development Collaborative and interim vice president for business development of the St. Louis County Economic Council told members of the Midwest Council, American Subcontractors Association (ASA) at their January meeting.

Leezer said that the Obama transition team asked for submission of the first round of shovel-ready projects in December and requested two more submissions in January and February, with a goal of being underway with work with 120 days of the inauguration. The 199-page St. Louis submission asks for funding for an extension of Highway 141 from Page to I-64, schools, and municipal centers among other projects.

"They told us they wanted the submission in electronic form and that if we submitted it on paper we could expect to have it recycled," Leezer said. "We had to send it from servers outside of the county offices because of the sheer size of it."

Leezer said that other bright spots in an otherwise dim County construction picture include various projects for Edward Jones, Covidien, and the North Park Development near UMSL and Pinnacle's River City casino project in Lemay.

To download a copy of the St. Louis County's stimulus project submisison, go to this link.

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