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This month's
cover features Kevin Mowbray, publisher of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, who brings an entrepreneurial zeal to the publishing
business. The print media, both nationally and locally, is going
through tough times. Demographic changes, along with a growing
range of media options, are hurting subscription and advertising
rates.
Mowbray
passionately promotes the potential for the industry, noting that
the paper and STLtoday.com
combined have the second highest penetration of any newspaper/web
combination in the country, behind only the Washington Post.
This month's
St. Louis Commerce Magazine also closely examines the real
estate market. Colliers Turley Martin Tucker provides analysis
of commercial real estate from around the St. Louis region. Plus,
Patty Nooney and Peter Krombach, managing directors
of CB Richard Ellis, discuss their views on the state of commercial
real estate.
Staying with
the real estate theme, Linda Jarrett writes about St. Louis
City Treasurer Larry Williams' role in a number of recent
urban revitalization successes.
In a broader
sense of economic development, we get the perspective of five
of the region's top economic developers—Denny Coleman,
president and CEO, St. Louis County Economic Council; Rodney
Crim, executive director, St. Louis Development Corp; John
Herzog, economic development coordinator, Madison County;
Steve Johnson, St. Louis RCGA; and Greg Prestemon,
president, Partners for Progress.
On the role
of public-private partnerships, we get insight from former four-term
Mayor of Indianapolis and Congressman William Hudnut III.
He recently paid a visit to St. Louis in his role as senior resident
fellow of the Urban Land Institute to provide a presentation on
development to a full house at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
The RCGA also
played host to former Mayor of Albuquerque, David Rusk,
who is an economist and author. He gives speeches and conducts
workshops on how urban sprawl, racial segregation and concentrated
poverty impact a region.
As part of
a session on education reform, featured leaders from around the
country also gathered in St. Louis to talk about the role of charter
schools.
Shera Dalin
sat down with leaders from three of the region's top law firms
to discuss trends. In a parallel story, Jim Baer talks
with eight of our region's top bankers.
"A Day in
the Work Life" features George Brill, founder and CEO of
St. Louis-based Talisen Technologies, which provides software
to manage facilities. And finally, this month's "Spotlight" features
one of the region's newest business leaders, David Nichols,
president of AT&T Missouri. He joins us from AT&T California.
We hope you
enjoy reading this issue of St. Louis Commerce Magazine.
As always, please send your comments and suggestions to us at
dfleming@stlrcga.org.
RICHARD C.D. FLEMING
Publisher
St. Louis Commerce Magazine
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