This article was published by Construction Digest on November 1, 2024.
The East-West Gateway Council of Governments recently approved the 2025 Priority Projects List featuring the top freight infrastructure funding needs for the St. Louis region in eastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois.
The 2025 list includes 27 projects that represent a total investment of more than $8 billion. As of May 2024, more than $500 million in projects on the list had been completed and nearly $2.3 billion in additional projects were fully funded, with many of those already under construction or soon to be.
“As we look ahead five to 10 years, we could see a level of investment that far exceeds the current progress,” said Mary Lamie, who leads the St. Louis Regional Freightway, an enterprise of Bi-State Development. “During that window of time, work may be actively underway on more than $5 billion in infrastructure projects. Those projects would specifically benefit the regional and national supply chain, not to mention supporting the bi-state area’s developer-ready industrial real estate sites.”
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