Downtown businesses sending their employees home to get them out of harms way before things really fire up
Wells Fargo, Purina and Stifel among downtown St. Louis businesses closing after Stockley verdict | Business | stltoday.com
Several businesses in and near downtown are closing early in response to the Jason Stockley verdict.
The home office of Wells Fargo Advisors closed at 10 a.m. Friday. The 4,900 employees at the Market Street campus west of downtown were "strongly encouraged to take their laptops home" and continue working there," based on a statement from the company.
Shuttle service for employees to the Metro system will run between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Friday
The federal courthouse announced earlier this week it would be closed Friday, in anticipation of the verdict.
Brokerage and investment banking firm Stifel, which is headquartered downtown, also notified thousands of employees Friday they could go home due to the verdict's release.
Nestle Purina PetCare, which has 2,000 employees at its headquarters just south of downtown, closed its office campus at 11 a.m.