Tag: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Big names promise big collaboration at NGA West groundbreaking
All-union construction workforce on $1.7 billion project
By CARL GREEN
Correspondent
St. Louis – The expected impact of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new “NGA West” headquarters in...
McCarthy joint venture wins $712M NGA West contract
100% union-built project to create hundreds of union jobs
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Correspondent
Great news for the St. Louis Labor Movement: the new western headquarters of the...
Minority union contractor awarded demolition of Brown Shoe building at NGA...
Community Workforce Agreement ensuring nearly 40% minority participation key in securing project
When the federal government was selecting the new location for the National Geospatial-Intelligence...
Union pension funds to help launch massive NorthSide Regeneration effort
AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust commits to helping fund 500 housing units
By ED FINKELSTEIN
Publisher
The Labor Movement has once again stepped up in a big way...
It’s final: St. Louis will get NGA site over Illinois objections
Project will provide ‘a decade’s worth of construction’
By CARL GREEN
Special Correspondent
St. Louis – The National GeoSpatial-Intelligence Agency, unswayed by a strong push from Illinois...
NGA decision ‘a decade’s worth of construction’
St. Louis location will be challenged by Illinois leaders
By CARL GREEN
Special Correspondent
St. Louis – The selection of St. Louis as the recommended new site of...
Building Trades’ Community Workforce Agreement could secure NGA for North St....
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
A recently announced Community Workforce Agreement with the St. Louis Building & Construction Trades Council, ensuring that nearly 40 percent of all...
Illinois officials show rare united front in bid to win NGA...
By CARL GREEN
Illinois Correspondent
Collinsville, IL – While St. Louis has been working to improve its site offering for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency relocation, Illinois...
City of St. Louis to provide land to federal government at...
Building Trades commit to 37.81 minority labor to keep project in St.Louis
St. Louis – Federal and State leaders joined Mayor Francis Slay Monday, March...
NGA decision could come by end of April … or May
By CARL GREEN
Special Correspondent
Four months ago, St. Louis was abuzz with debate over where the National Geospatial-Intelligence Administration was going to place its new western...