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Boeing promises the project will create at least 500 jobs.

Boeing has not said exactly what it would build, but the company said the project would create about 500 new jobs.

One member of the St. Louis County Council called the Boeing request for a $155 million tax abatement on the company’s proposed $1.8 billion investment “tone-deaf timing.” It comes just weeks after the council voted against freezing property taxes for seniors.

The St. Louis Airport Commission has approved a Boeing expansion project that would allow the organization to lease 158 acres of land from St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

The omicron COVID-19 variant put a damper on travel early in 2022, but that didn’t last for the rest of the year.

Business leaders, immigration activists and Missouri politicians are urging the federal government to issue visas to 380 more refugees who fled Afghanistan in 2021 and are now stranded in Albania, a small country on the Balkan Peninsula. The first members of the group arrived in St. Louis on Monday, but hundreds more are waiting on the U.S. government to issue them visas.

Some business leaders in the St. Louis region have seen this success, and now their sights are set on replicating it with a nonstop route to South America.

Business and civic leaders hail nonstop service between St. Louis and Germany.

A city-appointed group assembled to evaluate proposals to privatize St. Louis' airport held hours of closed-door meetings involving topics that should have been discussed publicly, according to an attorney who disclosed newly released recordings and documents.

Officials at St. Louis Lambert International Airport are considering a plan that would build a new, single terminal to replace the airport’s two existing ones. Lambert officials are expected to submit the plan to the Federal Aviation Administration this year.