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Alton Steel revitalizing old Laclede Steel site
alton steel revitalizes laclede steel
During one of the recent snowstorms that have peppered the Midwest area, Terry Wooden, president of U.S. Steelworkers Local 3643, Mel Cook, president of Alton Steel Inc., and investors D. Jeannine Kelly, environmental attorney and Raymond Stillwell, attorney, stand at the site where Alton Steel plans to begin steel production within the next few months. 		By VICKI BENNINGTON

   ALTON - Former Laclede Steel employees, Melvin Cook and his son, Mike, and a group of local investors have come together to revive an area of the community that many thought had seen its last days of productivity as a producer of steel.
   The newly formed company, Alton Steel Inc. will bring back to life an otherwise blighted 400-acre site along Broadway in Alton.
   D. Jeannine Kelly, environmental attorney and an investor in the newly formed company, said the group is paying $1 million for the property but the funds will be put into a trust fund to assist in environmental cleanup identified by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
   "The agreement gives the maximum benefit for all parties involved using a very innovative approach," Kelly said. "Alton Steel is taking [continue]

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New softball stadium recognizes women's sports advocate
By VICKI BENNINGTON

   CARBONDALE - Southern Illinois University Carbondale is now sporting a new women's softball stadium, named for Charlotte West, a woman of national acclaim in the field of women's sports.
   The new $1.7 million, state-of-the-art stadium was recently dedicated and is expected to be used for the first time at a home game sometime this month.
   The facility, constructed by Fager-McGee Commercial Construction of [continue]
 
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 fountains at fairview
From left, Doug Sitton, Bruce Holland, Terry Johnson and developer David Roth discuss additional plans for medical and banking tenants at the Fountains at Fairview.

Tenants inking deals at Fountains
By KERRY L. SMITH

   FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS - A "fountain" of water spouting from the hose of a Fairview Heights Fire Department truck signified the start of construction of the first office building at the Fountains at Fairview, a mixed-used development in Southwestern Illinois.
   The $90 office park development, which will eventually include 170,000 square feet of Class A office space, is being built by Holland Construction Services. The site, one-half mile north of Illinois Route 159 and Interstate 64, is the brainchild of developer David Roth.
   Fairview Heights Mayor Gail Mitchell credited Roth with persistence and patience in moving the [continue]

 Hauler turned design-builder
 develops Granite City corridor

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. Darryl Slater By KURT PRENZLER

   GRANITE - Darryl Slater, owner of Dial Properties in Granite City, looks at least 10 years younger than his 57 years. To what does he attribute his youthful appearance? "Water," he said. "Both drinking it and swimming in it."
   Slater's life as an entrepreneur began naturally enough at his family's dining room table. His parents moved to St. Louis from Kankakee in the late 1930s when William Slater, his father, took a job with a St. Louis [continue]
 

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