At Sunday’s Urban League Guild Jazz Brunch, St. Louis Ald. Marlene Davis was hyped over new developments in her ward:

• 25 new Habit for Humanity houses
• Robbie Montgomery‘s launch of Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust restaurant on Grand at Delmar Boulevards
• a boutique hotel on the triangle of Lindell Boulevard at Olive Street, being designed by Steve Smith of the Lawrence Group
• the forthcoming facility at Locust and Theresa Streets, that will house a Ducati facility,where consumers may purchase the high-performance, stylish motorcycles.  Davis said there are only a few outlets in the U.S.  The firm was founded in Bologna, Italy, in 1926.