Our local independent businesses provide much more than just good prices:

Better Service
Local owners and employees really know their businesses and their customers — and can offer you more personalized service and relevant advice.

Superior Quality
Many locally owned independents provide higher-quality products and services to you than the average national chain business.

Unique Choices
Independent local businesses bring their own creativity to their businesses — offering selections you won’t find elsewhere.

 

 

Our City and County local independents are just a click away.

Our members are local independents who’ve taken a stand to help spread the word about locals, by joining the BUILD St. Louis business alliance. Please patronize their businesses – and refer friends and family to them, as well.  
 

Accounting Commercial Recycling Kitchen & Housewares
Antiques & Vintage Construction Lawn & Garden
Architectural Services Design & Marketing Legal Services
Arts & Craft Supplies Education Music Stores
Artisan Crafts Environment Nonprofits
Automotive Entertainment Office Supplies
Bakeries Financial Services Party Supplies
Beauty & Hair Care Fine Arts Pets' Needs
Blogs Florists Pharmacies
Bookstores Food & Produce Photography
Beer & Wine Gifts & Jewelry Point of Sale Systems
Business Development Health & Well-Being Printing
Cafés & Coffee Home Furnishings Publications
Catering & Events Home Improvement Radio & Media Arts
Clothing Home Services Real Estate
Computers Kids Restaurants & Bars
    Sporting Goods

+ symbols indicate BUILD St. Louis' founding member businesses.
Inactive index links are some of the categories still under development.

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Real Estate
Click on web addresses to visit members' sites.

Circa Properties | CircaSTL.com
314 352 5200 | 4507 S. Kingshighway, Southampton neighborhood (63109) Map
We’re a boutique firm of niche-focused real estate professionals helping buyers, sellers, investors, tenants, rehabbers, and others with their real estate needs. Founded by Christopher Thiemet in 2007, the current Circa team accounts for over 70+ years of collective real estate experience and is focused and passionate about St. Louis city and historic neighborhoods surrounding the city limits. Inside our storefront office in the heart of St. Louis’ South City, you’ll find our passionate group of people dedicated to helping buyers and sellers navigate St. Louis’ vibrant and thriving market for vintage properties, historic neighborhoods, and city living. We specialize in the neighborhoods that give our city personality, and the homes that give our neighborhoods character.

Friedman Group, Ltd. | FriedmanGroup.com
314 367 2800 | 245 Union Blvd in the Central West End (63108) Map
We help our clients buy, sell, and lease commercial/investment real estate by bringing 38 years of experience to each assignment. We also raise debt and equity for projects. Our president, Eric Friedman, was a founder of the Missouri Historic Tax Credit Coalition, that passed the Historic, Rebuilding Communities, and Neighborhood Presentation programs; a founder and co-chair of the new Greater St. Louis Transit Alliance; the president of Housing & Community Solutions, a not-for-profit working on sustainable communities; a founder of a charter school; a founder of Central Reform Congregations; co-founder of the Realtors Commercial Information Exchange (CIE) property database; and has served on a number of boards. We’re helping build the community one project at a time.

Old North St. Louis Restoration Group | ONSL.org
314 241 5031 | 2700 N. 14th St in Old North St. Louis (63106) Map
Founded in 1981 by local residents, we’re a community-based neighborhood development organization with a mission to revitalize the physical and social dimensions of the Old North neighborhood in a manner that respects the community’s historic, cultural, and urban character. Our comprehensive neighborhood redevelopment efforts have included mixed-income housing development (both historic rehab and new construction, for-sale and rental); economic development (including the historic rehab of vacant buildings at the former 14th Street Pedestrian Mall, to provide new commercial spaces to attract new businesses); neighborhood planning; community-building initiatives; beautification and community gardens; and neighborhood health initiatives that bring more healthy and affordable food options to the community through the North City Farmers’ Market and the Old North Grocery Co-op.

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