An informational meeting for minority entrepreneurs in the construction industry will be held at 8 a.m. Friday Jan. 5 to introduce an inaugural effort to build a sustainable minority contracting community in St. Louis. The meeting is at the Carpenter’s Hall at 1401 Hampton Ave in St. Louis and will detail the new Regional Union Construction Center (RUCC) incubator established by PRIDE of St. Louis, Inc.
The RUCC recently selected Alan C. Richter as its executive director.
The incubator’s business development program will begin accepting applications from qualified small minority-owned construction companies in January 2007. It has a goal of serving five to seven minority-contracting firms in its first year.