Food is our primary passion at MarketPlace, of course, but it’s definitely not the start and end of our interests. Take pets, for instance. Whether they’re our own or others’, we love pets. MarketPlace is a second home to Silky Landau, and we generally play host to a number of other employee pets on any given day. Many of our team work with animals in their own time: Nicole volunteers with pet organizations, Crystal photographs dogs professionally, I stubbornly argue for felines in the cats vs. dogs debate, etc. And, of course, we love helping pet companies with their marketing challenges, as much of our food knowledge clicks naturally with pet nutrition and care. Lately, though, we’ve wanted to do even more to help out our animal companions. (more…)

So, yeah, baby Dwayne is pretty darn cute. We love seeing him this way: happy, secure, and with a great opportunity to beat the systemic forces of homelessness among women and children in St. Louis. We love that Gateway180 entrusts us with the weighty work of helping to ensure that people know about, and respond generously to, the homelessness problem in St. Louis. (more…)

It has long been a tradition of MarketPlace to partner with organizations that give back to the community. One of our favorites is Gateway 180. (more…)

You look out the window and spot a ticket tucked under your windshield wiper. Apparently, you can’t park on the 33^rd% of the north corner of the block between 1:47 and 3:43 PM on the seventeenth cloudy day of the summer equinox as defined by the City Planning Commission’s Tertiary Regulations Committee. You’re in no mood to hear about someone else’s success. No thank you, e-blast. Delete. (more…)

Speechless. Sad. Uplifted. Inspired. Hopeless. Hopeful. These are just some of the rollercoaster of emotions I felt while I was working on a video loop for the Gateway 180 homeless shelter Open Your Heart Gala event. (more…)