Business group pushes for city re-entry into county

Podcast: The Arch City Report · St. Louis Business Journal

Opublikowano: 2026-07-23

Karen Branding, president and CEO of the Regional Business Council, joins the show to explain how the 100-CEO organization is stepping up on two of St. Louis' most pressing challenges. First, she details the RBC's downtown revitalization effort — a coalition of more than 30 organizations now in the middle of a six-month sprint targeting cleaner streets, increased police presence, a more active riverfront, and a better narrative for the city's core. Then, she breaks down the RBC's position on city-county regionalism: why a majority of its members support city re-entry into the county as the most realistic path forward, what le...