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NCAA
SELECTS ST. LOUIS TO HOST MAJOR EVENTS IN 2007 AND 2009
The St. Louis Sports Commission scored big in attracting two major
NCAA national collegiate events to the St. Louis region. The NCAA
Division 1 Men’s Ice Hockey Committee selected St. Louis and the
Savvis Center to host college hockey’s national championship in
2007, known as the “Frozen Four.” On the heels of that announcement
came word that the NCAA Women’s Basketball Committee selected St.
Louis and the Edward Jones Dome as the site of the 2009 Women’s
Final Four National Championship Games.
According to RCGA Chief Economist Bryan Bezold, these two intercollegiate
events together are estimated to have a direct and indirect economic
impact of $68 million on our region, with the Frozen Four accounting
for $28 million and the Women’s Final Four accounting for $40 million.
X PRIZE FOUNDATION WINS 2003 WORLD TECHNOLOGY
AWARD FOR SPACE
World Technology Network (WTN) honored the St. Louis-based X PRIZE
Foundation and Dr. Peter Diamandis, its founder and chairman, as
the winners of its Corporate and Personal World Technology Awards
for Space. This is the first time the World Technology Awards has
named a company and its chairman as winners in the same year.
The WTN award recognizes the non-profit X PRIZE Foundation’s efforts
to launch a new industry of commercial space travel. X PRIZE provides
incentives in the private sector with the goal of making space travel
frequent and affordable for commercial use, as well as for the general
public.
Dr. Diamandis (right) with James Clark, head
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The $10 million X PRIZE competition is expected to have a winner
within the next year, following the success of the first private
group to design, construct and fly a three-person spacecraft to
an altitude of 62 miles, and repeat the trip within two weeks. More
than 20 teams from seven countries are currently entered in the
competition.
The World Technology Awards honor individuals and corporations from
20 technology-related sectors. Nominations come from current WTN
members, which consists primarily of winners and finalists of previous
Awards cycles. These peers select winners as being the most innovative
and doing the work of the greatest likely long-term significance
in award categories including biotechnology, space, energy, ethics,
design and entertainment. Other finalists included Analytical Graphics
Inc., Astrium, SpaceDev and Pioneer Rocketplane (an X PRIZE team).
The X Prize has also been in other national news recently including
stories in The New York Times and Fortune magazine.
ART & EDUCATION COUNCIL, GRAND CENTER AND
OWEN DEVELOPMENT TEAM TO CREATE ARTS “INCUBATOR”
JIM WEIDMAN
president,
Arts & Education Council |
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A renovated Medinah Temple building is the focus of new activity
in the Grand Center District. The Arts & Education Council of Greater
St. Louis, Grand Center Inc., and Owen Development have announced
an agreement in which the Arts & Education Council will become the
lead tenant and operator of an arts incubator in the building.
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The Medinah Temple building will be renovated and
will make the development home of several arts organizations. |
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Located at 3547 Olive in the heart of the Grand Center District,
the Medinah Temple building will be renovated using Grand Center’s
District Tax Incremental Financing approved late last year by the
City of St. Louis and State and Federal Historic Tax Credits. The
Medinah Temple building is expected to be ready for its new tenants
by late fall 2004.
Under the agreement, Owen Development will fully renovate the property.
The Arts & Education Council will work with Grand Center and Owen
Development to make the building the home of several arts organizations,
many of which will relocate from current offices in the City Health
Department Building at 634 North Grand. The City Health Building
is scheduled for renovation as part of the Grand Center TIF Plan.
The incubator, operated by the Arts & Education Council at the Medinah
Temple facility, will provide various office and infrastructure
support programs for emerging arts organizations. In addition to
providing space for relocating the existing arts groups in Grand
Center, plans call for the Medinah project to serve as home for
additional arts groups, including some that may relocate from outside
the Grand Center area.
“This is an exciting opportunity for the future of the arts in St.
Louis,” said Arts & Education Council President Jim Weidman in making
the announcement. “We were looking for new office space and Vince
Schoemehl, president, Grand Center Inc. and Steve Trampe, president,
Owen Development, came forward with a building and a plan that will
meet not only our needs, but will provide desperately needed, affordable
office space, storage, and even rehearsal space for the arts organizations.”
The unique, Gothic style Medinah Temple was originally built in
1906 for the Knights of Columbus. It served as its home for many
years as well as many other small fraternal organizations. It was
also home for some years for the International Association of Machinists
and was last occupied by the Medinah Masonic Order into the early
1990s.
RONALD McDONALD HOUSE OPENS APARTMENT FACILITY
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(left to right) John Riffle—current RMHC Board
President, Ronald McDonald and Dawn Callier, former
RMHC Board President cut the ribbon while Todd Sklamberg—Children’s
Hospital administrator and RMHC Board member, Jeanne
Shay, Michael Hutchinson, Dan Green of ISC Contracting,
and architect John Guenther of Mackey Mitchell look
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Out-of-town families whose children require extensive hospital stays
now have a new place to make a temporary home in St. Louis. Adjacent
to the original Ronald McDonald House at 4381 West Pine, is a new
eight-unit apartment building. John Guenther of Mackey Mitchell
Associates designed the new facility to fit into the existing neighborhood.
The St. Louis Ronald McDonald House provides comfort, care and lodging
each evening for up to 39 out-of-town families of seriously ill
children who are being treated in nearby hospitals. Located in the
Central West End, the local Ronald McDonald House is close to the
area’s two leading pediatric hospitals.
CORRECTIONS
The Federation Club Hospitality package, which is located in the
clubhouse at the 2004 U.S. Senior Open is actually a $20,000 investment,
not $120,000 as reported in the August issue of Commerce Magazine.
This package offers VIP clubhouse access passes, which include full
food & beverage service for all seven days, VIP parking, grounds
passes, and advertising—just to name a few of the amenities.
In the Trends story in the September 2003 issue, it failed
to note that not only is Kaldi’s a certified kosher coffee, but
so is Ronnoco coffee. |
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