Archive for March, 2010

RCGA topper Dick Fleming will win the award for the most hours of sleep logged during meetings in China this past week. His bemused companions note that the nodding Fleming (and St. Louis County official Mike Jones, who apparently slept more before he arrived) joined the group a day or
two late and was having difficulty adjusting to a 13 hour time zone differential.  When he is awake, Fleming is a solid advocate for St. Louis.

Developers Gary Grewe and Michael Staenberg are expected to be selected by the city of Shrewsbury next week to partner with owner Randy Lipton to invigorate Kenrick Plaza on Watson Road.  The high-powered trio would bring money, experience, and connections to national retailers to a very challenging project.  Shrewsbury officials have been beating the bushes for months looking for viable plans to address what its tidy neighbors have been calling an eyesore adjacent to I-44.

Did the producers of KSDK’s Just Sayin’ segment broadcast on Thursday night notice that one of the “people on the street” solicited for opinions on health care reform was (reportedly) recently wed St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green.  (If they did, her title was not mentioned.)

If plans to locate a branch of south St. Louis icon Chris’ Pancake in the first floor of the Municipal Garage at the corner of Tucker and Clark fall flat, wouldn’t that be an excellent location for one of those new Dunkin Donuts franchises that are sprouting up in the region. By definition, a garage is a drive-through (one of the conditions the crueller crew is requiring) – and the site is adjacent to the headquarters of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

Representative William Lacy Clay has filed a change of address with his employer.  The newly single congressman has moved into a central corridor condo owned by his sister, attorney Michele
Clay.  (The columnist knows the address, but thinks the recent bad behavior outside the private residence of US Representative Russ Carnahan by some of the Tea Party group makes it prudent to withhold it.)

“So now when Uncle Sam points his finger at you it means bend over.” – Jimmy Kimmel on the Dems’ health care reform.

Jim, Judy and Joe Glik

Glik Department Stores is on a spree and will begin opening more spinoffs to add to its chain of 53 – this time in North Dakota, according to Jim and Judy Glik and the company’s patriarch, Joe Glik.  Bumped into the affable family in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where they were partaking potables. Nearby was the gregarious twosome of Sue and Pierce Powers, the insurance icon.  Susan and John Kilo were headed for the Orchid Ball in another space.  That’s where the auction -dinner raised about $150,000 for the St. Louis Chapter of The Asthma & Allergy Foundation to further its educational and medical assistance programs.  Highlight of the event was honors for Drs. Michael R. Borts, Philip E. Korenblat and Raymond G. Slavin.  Slavin accompanied his ever lovin’ Harriet Baron, who directs a program at WashU to support incoming students.  Dr. James Wedner,

Dr. James Wedner and friends

department chair of allergy and immunology at WashU, was there with his best friend, Pat Scannell, retired WashU director of the human study comittee, which overlooks all research.  Dr. Wedner tipped that a new pollen from a weed – hysteropherous – has been identified in Texas, the Gulf Coast and here.  Attorney Dick Hughes and his wife, Pat, SLU associate dean Stuart Slavin and his wife-artist Helene and Arleen Korenblat were among the faces in the crowd.

That Delmar Gardens honcho Gabe Grossberg is a heavy investor in the development of houses in the Enclave Bellerive. . . That the Cardinals are searching for a new radio station to anchor its broadcasts after 2010 and it just might be 101 ESPN. . . That the FDIC
has requested bids to buy Champion Banks. . That Rolla, Mo., barrister Stephen F. Gaunt is repping plaintiffs against Purcell Tire and Rubber for alleged age discrimination.