ST. LOUIS – Alan C. Richter has been named executive director of the new Regional Union Construction Center (RUCC) incubator. The incubator was recently established by PRIDE of St. Louis, Inc., the area’s venerable construction labor-management organization, to help minority owners of union construction companies grow their businesses.

Richter will oversee day-to-day operations of the RUCC and carry out the directives of the incubator’s 11-member board of directors. He is the former regional director for the St. Louis Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) – an outreach program affiliated with the University of Missouri – Columbia.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also former chairman and member of the board for Boys & Girls Town of Missouri.

Founded in 1972, PRIDE is an acronym for Productivity and Responsibility Increase Development & Employment. It is the nation’s first and oldest voluntary construction labor-management organization. For 35 years, PRIDE has worked to maintain harmony and build cooperation among St. Louis area AFL-CIO construction craft workers, contractors, construction buyers, architects, engineers and suppliers.