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The
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CANNON
DESIGN PROJECT RECOGNIZED IN NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE
St. Louis-based Cannon Design was recently recognized in New
Orleans Magazine for the Children’s Hospital Research and Education
Building. In the “sixth annual best of New Orleans architecture,”
the review features four contemporary projects. Cannon Design is
the only “out-of-towner” making the list.
The 60,000-square-foot
laboratory and office building is headquarters of the Research Institute
for Children, a joint project of Children’s Hospital and the Louisiana
State University Health Sciences Center. Descriptions from the review
include “striking, well-composed exterior...interiors of the researchers’
offices are very successful... state-of-the-art laboratory facilities.”
George Nikolajevich, design principal, Merlin Lickhalter, project
principal, Thomas Harvath, project manager and laboratory planner,
Lynn Grossman, project designer, and Marcello Pierrottet, project
architect, are the key staff responsible for the New Orleans health
facility.
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Tourism
officials in metropolitan St. Louis will tell you: It pays
to play together nicely. While highlighting the approaching
Lewis & Clark bicentennial, The Oregonian the major
daily in Portland, Oregon—travel editor Terry Richard extols
St. Louis for being “short on pretense but long on attractions.”
The massive
story covered the front page of the travel section, two-thirds
of the jump page and still more spilled onto a third page.
Mary Hendron, PR director at the St. Louis Convention & Visitors
Commission says, “When we started talking with The Oregonian,
they really didn’t know how much Lewis & Clark history was
available here. It was a pleasure to bring Terry in to show
him what the region means to the expansion of the American
West.”
Among the St. Louis attractions Richard mentioned were the
Arch (of course) and its museum; Forest Park and its museums;
Soulard (the district, the market); the blues; the Blues,
the Rams, the Redbirds; the Old Cathedral, The Loop, The Hill,
Portland Place...
He notes that some buildings from Lewis & Clark’s arrival
in Illinois still stand. He notes the new Lewis & Clark Interpretive
Center near Alton, and that William Clark “whipped the men
[of the expedition] into a team” at Camp Wood in the winter
of 1803-04.
Richard calls St. Charles “a charming town,” extolled its
Historic Main Street, the Katy Trail, its B&Bs (also charming),
the annual Lewis & Clark Heritage Days (the third weekend
in May since 1979), and the plans by non-profit Discovery
Expedition of St. Charles to reenact the expedition in 2003
to 2006.
Steve Powell director of the Greater St. Charles Convention
& Visitors Bureau, says, “We couldn’t be more pleased that
Terry wrote about Lewis & Clark recruiting their last members,
buying their last supplies, and beginning their journey into
the unknown at St. Charles.”
Douglas Arnold, CEO of the Greater Alton CVB, says he expects
to host an increasing number of travel writers at the 22 Lewis
& Clark bicentennial sites in Illinois.
Powell was also delighted that Richard praised St. Louis and
Alton so highly. “Tourism marketing is best done on a cooperative
basis,” he says. “We’re grateful that St. Louis contacted
us when they knew Terry was coming. The more sights and activities
our region can offer decision makers—families, retirees, trip
planners—the more likely they are to come here instead of
Chicago, New Orleans or New York. It’s the old ‘hang together
or hang separately.’”
Front
page of the travel section in The Oregonian
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NEAL PEIRCE COLUMN ON ETHICAL SUCCESS HIGHLIGHTS
ST. lOUIS AND JOHN BACHMANN
Nationally syndicated Washington Post writer Neal Peirce
in a column on September 1, 2002, praised St. Louis and its business
leaders for their “ethics,” “modesty,” and “loyalty.” He starts
his column, “CEOs to Boast About: The Locally Engaged,” asking if
all businesses are involved in “hocus-pocus accounting,” insider
trading and other executive excesses—only a few get caught?
His contacts with civic leaders across the country indicate the
answer is, “no way.” Peirce writes, “They report the big achievers
among business leaders in their communities rarely turn out to be
riders on the Greed Express.”
To make his point, Peirce, whose columns run in hundreds of newspapers
across the country, details his discussions with Deborah Nankivell,
Business Council chief in Fresno, Calif. and Dick Fleming, president
of the RCGA.
As Peirce continues, he cites the example of John Bachmann, managing
partner of Edward Jones, “a $2.1 billion a year St. Louis-based
securities firm named by Fortune magazine as America’s best
company to work for.” He describes Bachmann as “an unassuming Midwesterner,”
who started his Edward Jones career as a messenger in 1959 and has
helped grow the firm to the nation’s seventh largest brokerage house.
Sticking to business basics, giving personal attention to all investors
and observing high ethics are the ingredients Peirce says created
Edward Jones’ success. While many firms have laid off a combined
162,000 workers since January 2001, Peirce notes Edward Jones has
maintained its workforce—and employee loyalty.
Add to this picture Bachmann’s modest salary and lifestyle compared
to CEOs of some companies currently under federal investigation,
and his commitment throughout the community and Peirce agrees with
Fleming that Bachmann is a “candidate for the country’s best civic
capitalist.”
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