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Above: Delegates had the opportunity to tour Denver’s first charter school, P.S. 1. The Leadership Exchange allows participants to bring back to St. Louis “best practices” of other regions.
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In what has become an annual tradition in the St. Louis area, 125 regional leaders participated in the RCGA’s Community Leadership Exchange. The St. Louis delegates met with more than 60 of their Denver counterparts during the three-day visit.
While the overriding purpose of these trips is to build the momentum of a regional community here, there are a number of “tangibles” that have come out of these visits. The first Leadership Exchange to Cleveland in 1996 provided examples of how the public and private sectors in that community joined together to revitalize their downtown; St. Louis-based developer Richard Baron traces the inspiration for the Jefferson Elementary School to the Cleveland visit. Much of what is contained in St. Louis’ Downtown Now! plan traces its roots to Cleveland. Knowledge gained during the visit to Seattle with Bill Gates, Jr. in 1997 led directly to the creation of St. Louis’ highly successful Technology Gateway Alliance. Last year’s trip to Baltimore gave regional leaders here ideas for riverfront redevelopment and for “community capitalism,” a concept that advocates for-profit, business-driven investment and job creation in inner cities and nurturing minority-owned and women-owned businesses. Studying and adopting some of the “best practices” of other regions will help our region reach its full potential.
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Above: The group of 125 delegates tours Larimer Square and Lower Downtown (LoDo) to see firsthand downtown Denver’s revitalization successes.
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Above: Recapping the day’s activities, (left to right): Sr. Mary Jean Ryan, FSM, president and CEO, SSM Health Care and 1999 Leadership Exchange Co-chair; Dick Beumer, chairman and CEO Sverdrup Corporation, chairman of the RCGA; and David Kemper, chairman, president & CEO Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
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Above: Beyond the formal presentations, St. Louis regional leaders took a portion of one evening to discover the Wynkoop Brewing Company. (Seated left to right): John Hickenlooper, founder and owner of the Brewpub; Lee Liberman, chairman of ARCHS; Terry Egger, Publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (Standing left to right): Phil Hoge, executive director of the St. Louis Development Corporation; Mike Jones, deputy Mayor for Development; Dick Fleming, president and CEO of the RCGA; Scott Schnuck, president and COO Schnuck Markets; C. Ray Holman, chairman and CEO Mallinckrodt (Leadership Exchange co-chair); and Clarence Barksdale, vice chairman of Washington University.
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