The Arch City Report – Details, episodes & analysis

Erik Siemers is joined by Jacob Kirn, Nathan Rubbelke, Gloria Lloyd and St. Louis Business Journal publisher Robert Bobroff.

Join Erik Siemers, editor at The St. Louis Business Journal, each week as he covers the top stories coming out of the newsroom.

The Arch City report dives into the city’s earnings tax payout and we speak with a restaurant expert on what made Tony’s so special to St. Louis.

Two weeks after a snow storm hit the region, it’s still plaguing St. Louis residents and small businesses and casting a looming shadow over a pair of city elections.

A local alderman explains their push to create a new position managing city operations; a bill in Jefferson City seeks to regulate a health care middleman with a big impact on St. Louis; and meet the Business Journal’s newest reporter. 

Development in St. Louis has declined considerably and we get into why it’s happened; Political disputes over how to spend the Rams money boils over at the Board of Aldermen, sowing frustration; And a look ahead at a big event next week where we get to ask: just how competitive is St. Louis? 

Click this link to learn more about the AdvanceSTL event and for tickets: https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/event/171396/2025/advance-stl-the-strategy-for-selling-st-louis

An inside look at a move to create a land bank in St. Louis County, plus a conversation with SLU Demographer Ness Sandoval on whether the need for a land bank should be viewed as a sign of decline in the county.  

The founder of Saint Louis Bread Co., Ken Rosenthal, passed away last week. Hear what one of his original partners, and a former CEO of the company, has to say about Rosenthal’s legacy and the company that would eventually become Panera. 

The proposal to redevelop the vacant Millennium Hotel site, like several other downtown projects, will rely heavily on apartments in a neighborhood where supply already outpaces demand.

The Business Journal is releasing its interviews with the candidates for St. Louis mayor in their entirety. Here, city Recorder of Deeds Michael Butler describes his plan for spending the Rams money and increasing the city’s population, among other topics.