City officials eye quick measure to add 3% room tax to ballot.

Project that extends over Highway 65 is expected to wrap by spring 2026.

SBJ interviews the chair of the Urban Land Institute local chapter and architect and design manager at Kinetic Design and Development LLC.

This report offers a look at 28 projects by local design professionals.

Rusty Worley joins the engineering firm as its first director of community engagement.

City Council also looks toward last year’s 3/4-cent sales tax as source of state match. 

A new McDonald’s restaurant is taking shape outside of the Price Cutter on South National Avenue.

Springfield City Council is considering allowing more events that include alcohol downtown and on Commercial Street.

Newsmakers are compiled in the areas of education, engineering, insurance and nonprofit.

The Thai-Me-Up food truck opened at Metro Eats; SRA Roofing & Gutters conducted an acquisition; and Carney’s Window Coverings changed ownership.

City needs to pinpoint what it wants, councilmember says.

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Doug Pitt is recognized with the Lifetime Achievement in Business award.

The $5.4 million project over Highway 65 is expected to wrap by spring 2026.

The construction will replace the nonprofit's 70-year-old men's shelter near the intersection of Commercial and Division streets.

The Statewide Transportation Improvement Program was recently approved by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission after a feedback period.

Springfield needs a downtown event center suitable for both conventions and community uses. That’s the latest recommendation of Chicago-based Hunden Strategic Partners Inc. in its fourth study since 2011 of Springfield’s need and capacity for a convention center.

The just-completed renovation of its sanctuary, worship space and support areas is only part of a project to support the growth of the 19-year-old St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church; a new classroom wing is also in the works to add more than 4,000 square feet of space for Sunday school and community use as well as office and work space for staff.

City leaders express agreement at council luncheon that event facility should move forward. 

July 15 marks a new start for the 1141 E. Delmar St. restaurant after an expansion project.

The CAC’s capital campaign, announced today, is intended to expand the agency’s capacity to serve abused and neglected children.