A Metro with a Purpose
Driving Action Towards Inclusive Growth
A Metro with a Purpose
Driving Action Towards Inclusive Growth
Aggregating projects and programs throughout the metro that advance elements of the STL 2030 Jobs Plan to raise public awareness, enable collaboration, and highlight progress.
Learn more about the strategic initiatives and methodology.
Celebrating a Collective #STLMade Effort
A living document, the STL 2030 Jobs Plan is a 10-year roadmap to boost economic growth, increase quality jobs, and reduce racial disparities across the metro. This tool tracks actions underway across the region to implement recommended initiatives.
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Vibrant Activity in the Region
A measurement of progress across Five Actionable Strategies
Restore the Core
Metro-wide inclusive growth won’t happen without boosting employment density and rejuvenation in the urban core. Revitalizing Downtown St. Louis and other urban commercial corridors is critical.
Business Ecosystem
To grow community wealth, the St. Louis metro must ensure that all small business owners—regardless of race or gender—have ready access to customers, capital, advisors, and vibrant commercial corridors.
Talent Engine & Magnet
Talent pathways into quality jobs with a livable wage are key to addressing skills shortages and expanding opportunity for all communities, especially in North St. Louis City/County and East St. Louis.
Next-Gen Industries Hub
The St. Louis metro must position for 21st century success by strengthening adaptive and innovation-intensive industry cluster ecosystems that invest in R&D and deliver more productivity, exports, and pay.
Steward an Inclusive Economy
Inspired by successful metros jointly guided by civic and business leaders, St. Louis will devise a new approach to economic stewardship prioritizing collaboration, coordination, and inclusive growth.
Tracking Initiatives
This tool is intended to be dynamic and regularly updated. We acknowledge the need to supplement this moving forward and encourage additional submissions.
Reimagining the heart of the City of St. Louis based on historic and emerging economic and cultural assets on both sides of the "Delmar Divide" is critical for metro success.
The bold ambition is to put St. Louis among the top metros for Black-, Brown- and/or woman-owned small businesses and startup activity.
Strengthening coordination between industry and educational and training programs will increase awareness of career options and enhance work-based learning and job placement.
Bolster St. Louis' areas of industry strength (bioscience, agtech, geospatial, aerospace and defense, fintech), enabling infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing.
Brickline Greenway
This bold urban infrastructure project will drive over $460 million in economic development, strengthen neighborhoods, connect diverse communities, and provide other benefits.
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Neighborhood Transformation
Also a strategic pillar of the City's Economic Justice Action Plan, this initiative aims to regenerate historically disinvested Black neighborhoods in the City of St. Louis.
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Innovation Districts
Investing in innovation districts can drive progress across commercialization, company formation and attraction, talent cultivation and attraction, and community regeneration.
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Revitalizing Downtown St. Louis
As the central business district and metro public square ensuring a safe, vibrant, and beautiful Downtown is critical for the region as a whole.
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Entrepreneurial Surge
Providing needed support across the the small and medium enterprise and innovation-driven enterprise continuum is key to foster thriving locally owned businesses.
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SupplySTL
This initiative leverages the inclusive growth potential of anchor institutions to advance supplier diversity and grow local small businesses in the St. Louis metro.
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Small Business Support Collaborative
This initiative aims to build a Small Business Support Collaborative to support the formation and expansion of Black-, Brown- and/or woman-owned small businesses.
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Neighborhood Business Districts
This initiative aims to accelerate the revival of main streets and neighborhood business districts across the urban-suburban-rural continuum throughout the metro.
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Build Industry-Led Workforce Collaboratives
Building industry-led workforce collaboratives are key to connecting education and training to employers’ ever-changing needs due to technology and market disruptions.
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Talent Surge
Jumpstarting industry-led workforce development with a Talent Surge will expand the reach of proven solutions for placing people into pathways to high-demand job fields.
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Strengthen STEM Education and Training
This initiative aims to strengthen and enhance coordination of the STEM (or STEAM with "Arts") education and training ecosystem and programming throughout the St. Louis metro.
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Steward an Inclusive Economy
Critical to the STL 2030 Jobs Plan’s success is the ability to steward its progress through key leadership and accountability structures. Within the framework of the Plan, initiatives include:
- Organizing for inclusive growth with leadership and stewardship
from Greater St. Louis, Inc - Organizing and leveraging regional anchors and other employers
through the STL Pledge, and - Organizing a STL Capacity to Act Initiative
to support critical elements of the STL 2030 Jobs Plan
Greater St. Louis, Inc. was officially launched in January 2021 with over 600 Founding Investor companies representing over 300,000 employees throughout the St. Louis MSA. The leadership of each of these companies has committed to actively engaging to advance inclusive economic growth within their organizations and throughout the metro.
As next steps, formalizing the STL Pledge will allow metro-area companies and institutions to proudly proclaim their commitment to a more inclusive, stronger economy that benefits all St. Louisans. Organizations and businesses have stepped forward with historic commitments to fund critical activities under the STL 2030 Jobs Plan; building out the STL Capacity to Act Initiative will further strengthen this capability through 2030 and beyond.
