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Where it all began: The U.S. Postal Service’s Design-Build partnership with The Korte Company

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Founder Ralph Korte laid down the gauntlet shortly after we completed a renovation of the renowned Union Station in St. Louis: The company needed to set its sights on the city. If we were to keep growing, we had to win more work in St. But the St. Louis construction market is famously cyclical.

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How to Avoid a Commercial Construction Scandal

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Pursuing those jobs meant we would have had to use shoddy subcontractors or non-union labor where union labor would have been best. And if you’re not in a union town, like Miami, then align yourself with the best vendors. And yet, when we work in union markets like Chicago, Boston, New York and St.

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Sandy Grapperhaus could tell you stories

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But his dad still wanted him to come to the office and work.” That’s why she voluntarily stepped down and took a job as a project management assistant to Mike Tubbs at the St. Louis Union Station Office. “A Now that’s what they call a comeback Under Mike Tubbs, Sandy moved from the St.

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Susan Bowman sets the example

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As a sixth grader, she’d ride her bike over from school to the office to numerically organize the paper checks. Later, she worked in the print room alongside Sandy Grapperhaus , and in high school, she became the office switchboard operator, after class each day. We always said, ‘Mom’s the CEO: Chief Emotional Officer.

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UPDATE: Seven New Locations Added To President Obama’s Promise Zones Initiative

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The following updated post comes from the Office of the Press Secretary for the White House. Beginning in January 2014, SC2 teams will engage in the following locations: St. Louis, MO; Gary, IN; Flint, MI; Brownsville, TX; Rockford, IL; Macon, GA; and Rocky Mount, NC. BREAKING NEWS: U.S.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

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He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. Jack had used the design process while working under Eero Saarinen (yes, the same designer of the St. Louis Arch and Lincoln Center). . This method took the initial design process out of the architect’s office and right to the client’s location.

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More than a headquarters: Deepening roots for Glik’s and Korte’s next generation

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The facility is brimming with open office space and e-commerce capabilities light years beyond what they could accomplish before. Their first store dates back to 1897, when Joseph Glik transitioned from selling clothing and dry goods out of a horse-drawn wagon to opening a successful menswear store in downtown St.

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