(650,262,4,2,1223578715,'a:25:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-09 08:54 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:48:\"Conference Board Sees Economic Drop Through 2009\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:48:\"conference_board_sees_economic_drop_through_2009\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:48:\"Conference Board Sees Economic Drop Through 2009\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:228:\"Negative growth rates for the U.S. economy this past quarter will continue through the fourth quarter, and result in further contraction into the first half of 2009, according to The Conference Board’s latest economic forecast\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:35:\"Conference Board, economic forecast\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:3277:\"<p>Negative growth rates for the U.S. economy this past quarter will continue through the fourth quarter, and result in further contraction into the first half of 2009, according to <a href=\\\"http://www.conference-board.org/economics/chiefEconomist.cfm\\\">The Conference Board\\\'s latest economic forecast </a>.</p>\n<p>\\\"As all eyes turn this weekend to Washington, D.C., for the IMF-World Bank meeting, one hopes that the leaders who gather there are able to engage in productive consultation about what next steps governments and central banks can take to stem the crisis beyond the latest coordinated cut in global interest rates,\\\" says Dr. Bart van Ark, Vice President and Chief Economist of The Conference Board.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />\\\"If government and business leaders can calmly - and privately - focus squarely on a way out of all this, looking to prevent tomorrow\\\'s fires even as they fight today\\\'s, we can still avoid worse,\\\" he continues. \\\"This means finding a crucial balance between the short-run steps needed to get the economy back on its feet and the long-run needed to foster a new phase of global growth.\\\"<br /><br />The economic environment in the U.S. and abroad is much grimmer than even a few weeks ago.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Conference Board says that the markets are not reacting as hoped to the various government rescue plans enacted in the past weeks, and that feared global contagion has begun to materialize in some markets. The new forecast from The Conference Board is predicated on some loosening of credit markets in response to the measures taken by the U.S. government. <br />&nbsp;<br />\\\"We see no sign of improvement in the housing market before the first half of 2009 at the earliest, and housing prices may drop further - at significant cost to consumer spending over the next two quarters, holiday season or none,\\\" says Dr. van Ark. \\\"Meanwhile, several short-term credit channels such as commercial paper are also freezing up, which can seriously impact day-to-day business operations.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br />The Conference Board\\\'s current forecast assumes that inter-bank lending will recover, and that investor and business confidence will gradually return as government measures take hold in a matter of weeks - which is no small assumption. <br /><br />The rest of the world - particularly Europe - is being buffeted by the current storm, too, and even Asian economies are now seeing some slowdown in growth, consumer expenditure, and exports.&nbsp; That will affect U.S. exports, which have been a major engine of U.S. growth over the past half-year. Meanwhile, U.S. imports are also slow, which - despite the gradual strengthening of the U.S. dollar - impacts companies\\\' ability to utilize cheap sources.<br />&nbsp;<br />\\\"A sustainable long-term growth environment will require a new financial architecture that balances the necessary spreading of financial risk with sufficient regulatory oversight,\\\" concludes Dr. van Ark. \\\"Such an environment cannot rely solely on the financial conservatism of deposit-based lending. A huge amount of capital investment will be needed to drive the innovation and technological change that are our best hopes of achieving a competitive and sustainable future for the global economy.\\\"</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(651,263,2,2,1223591802,'a:28:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-09 12:10 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:41:\"Laborers\\\' Union Mobilizes for Democrats \";s:9:\"url_title\";s:38:\"laborers_union_mobilizes_for_democrats\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:40:\"Laborers\\\' Union Mobilizes for Democrats\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:151:\"Terence O\\\'Sullivan, fiery president of the Laborers International Union of North America, swept through Missouri this week barnstorming for Democrats.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:40:\"Terence O\\\'Sullivan, Laborers, Democrats\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3410:\"<p><br /><br />Terence O\\\'Sullivan, fiery president of the Laborers International Union of North America, swept through Missouri this week barnstorming for Democrats.<br /><br />\\\"My mission is to make sure our members are looking at the candidates with economic issues in mind, not race or social issues,\\\" he told CNR.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Laborers\\\' President Terrence Sullivan\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/sullivan.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Speaking to overflow crowds at union halls in Kansas City, Springfield, Potosi, and St. Louis, O\\\'Sullivan explained what he thinks the economic issues are, starting with the Davis-Bacon Act.<br /><br />\\\"John McCain has voted against the Davis-Bacon Act ever since getting elected to the Senate; while Obama has supported. And McCain\\\'s opposition was not just to extending it, but also to reauthorizing it,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan said. \\\"So, if McCain gets elected and does away with Davis-Bacon, you\\\'ll see a 35 percent pay cut,\\\" he told his members.<br /><br />On health insurance, \\\"McCain wants to tax your health care benefits, so in addition to that 35 percent pay cut, and on top of the fact that you are already paying in your premiums to cover health care for the uninsured employees of your nonunion competitors, McCain wants to hand you a tax bill for $2500 for your health benefits,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan said. \\\"Obama wants all employers to provide health insurance,\\\" he said.<br /><br />On pension plans, \\\"McCain wants to eliminate defined benefit pension plans. He wants you to invest in the stock market for your retirement. Can you imagine what that feels like right now? Obama wants to expand defined benefit pension plans,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan said.<br /><br />Finally, on project labor agreements, \\\"McCain is against them... Obama is for them,\\\" he said.<br /><br />O\\\'Sullivan said the 2008 election is so important - he said it is about preserving the American dream and the future of the working class and the middle class in this country - that the Laborers are spending $15 million on it, and the most they\\\'d ever spent on an election before was $3 million.<br /><br />\\\"We understand that we aren\\\'t going to get any promises,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan told CNR. \\\"But after the election, the gloves come off. We stepped out to try to make America\\\'s infrastructure an election year issue. Our infrastructure is crumbling and we have to spend $1.6 trillion to rebuild it for us to have a first class country. We need to rebuild our infrastructure to provide jobs that pay a middle-class wage, to improve the safety and security of our country, and to make us more economically competitive. We\\\'ve seen with the highway trust fund that we can\\\'t fund it with user fees. We have to make it a priority and take money from the general treasury.<br /><br />\\\"We\\\'ve had a bailout for Wall Street, now we need a stimulus for Main Street,\\\" he said. How will the country pay for it? \\\"If we can find a way to fund the war in Iraq; if we can find a way to cut taxes for the rich, then I think we can find a way to fund infrastructure. We just have to make it a priority,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan said.<br /><br />Cutline: Terence O\\\'Sullivan (left), general president of the Laborers International Union of North America, accepts compliments from union members after his speech Wednesday night at Local 110 in Green Park, MO.<br /></p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:28:\"/images/uploads/sullivan.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(652,257,2,2,1223591841,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"257\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-09-28 07:37 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:71:\"Walking on Water: Drilling for Missisippi River Bridge Promising So Far\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:70:\"walking_on_water_drilling_for_missisippi_river_bridge_promising_so_far\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:71:\"Walking on Water: Drilling for Missisippi River Bridge Promising So Far\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:330:\"Geotechnical engineers are taking core samples of the bedrock where designers hope to put the foundations for the new Mississippi River Bridge. Randy Hitt, Mississippi River Bridge deputy project director for the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), said that so far the core samples seem to consist of good, solid rock.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:62:\"Mississippi  River Bridge, drilling, test, barge, geotechnical\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3804:\"<p>Geotechnical engineers are taking core samples of the bedrock where designers hope to put the foundations for the new Mississippi River Bridge. Randy Hitt, Mississippi River Bridge deputy project director for the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), said that so far the core samples seem to consist of good, solid rock.<br /><br />Hitt said engineers will use information obtained from the geotechnical survey to design the foundations for the two piers that will support the bridge. They will decide, for example, whether they have to drill a shaft into the bedrock to support the piers or if they can use caissons, which rest on top of the bedrock.<br /><br />In order to minimize obstruction to barge traffic, the new bridge will have a clear span of 1,500 feet between the two foundations &ndash; the longest clear span across the Mississippi River in Missouri, Hitt said. In comparison, the clear spans of the Alton and Quincy bridges are about 800 feet and the clear span of the Cape Girardeau bridge is 1,150 feet, he said. Engineers think the two towers to support the cables that will hold up the bridge will have to be about 400 feet tall to support that long of a clear span, he said.</p>\n<h4><img alt=\\\"Drilling for Mississipi River Bridge\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"476\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/drilling3.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"253\\\" />The new Mississippi River Bridge will touch down in Missouri just to the left (south) of the cement silos in the background. The cement silos belong to Continental Cement Co.</h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The geotechnical team assessing the bedrock includes people from HNTB, TSI, and Geotechnology Inc. Massman Construction provided the barge that served as a drilling platform. Geotechnology provided the drilling rig.</p>\n<p style=\\\"text-align: left;\\\">In 2001, Illinois and Missouri \n											received approval for a new \n											Mississippi River Bridge and \n											associated roadways (<a href=\\\"http://www.newriverbridge.org/initialphase.asp\\\">shown on a map which can be viewed through this link</a>) . The components of the \n											project are:</p>\n<ul style=\\\"text-align: left;\\\">\n<li>\n<p align=\\\"left\\\">Relocated I-70 \n												in Illinois, north of its \n												current location</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p align=\\\"left\\\">A new, 8-lane, \n												I-70 Mississippi River Bridge (revised from the original to four lanes)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p align=\\\"left\\\">An interchange \n												in Missouri with existing I-70 \n												near Cass Avenue</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p align=\\\"left\\\">An improved \n												I-55/64/70 Tri-Level Interchange \n												in East St. Louis</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p align=\\\"left\\\">A connection \n												between the existing I-55/64/70 \n												Interchange and the relocation \n												of I-70 called the I-64 \n												Connector</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p style=\\\"text-align: left;\\\">Improvements to \n												ramps at the west side of the \n												existing I-55/64/70 Poplar \n												Street Bridge in Missouri</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p style=\\\"text-align: left;\\\">The two states lacked sufficient \n											funding to construct all components \n											of the project at the same time. The \n											estimated cost of the Ultimate \n											Project Concept is between $1.8 \n											billion and $2.2 billion. The scope \n											of work announced on February 28, \n											2008 is the first phase of the \n											project. This phase is \n											operationally independent since it \n											can be funded and built to function \n											as a viable transportation facility. \n											See the <a href=\\\"http://www.newriverbridge.org/initialphase.asp\\\"> Proposed \n											Initial Phase</a> for \n											details.</p>\n<p style=\\\"text-align: left;\\\">.</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:37:\"/images/uploads/drilling-4-bridge.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(653,264,2,2,1223671028,'a:28:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-10 10:33 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:26:\"\\\"We\\\'re in a recession.\\\"\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:19:\"were_in_a_recession\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:273:\"Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, had some sobering news for St. Louis County business leaders on Thursday. Speaking at Midwest Bank Centre\\\'s annual economic breakfast, Prakken said, \\\"we\\\'re in a recession,\\\" and he predicted it will last until June 2009.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:43:\"Prakken, Macroeconomic Advisers, recesssion\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2661:\"<p>Joel Prakken, chairman of Marcoeconomic Advisers, had some sobering news for St. Louis County business leaders on Thursday. Speaking at Midwest Bank Centre\\\'s annual economic breakfast, Prakken said, \\\"we\\\'re in a recession,\\\" and he predicted it will last until June 2009.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Prakken is forecasting \\\"a garden variety recession,\\\" unemployment rising to seven percent, home prices falling another nine percent, and the nation\\\'s gross domestic product falling two percent before recovering, but he added that if he is wrong, things are more likely to be worse than he expects rather than better.<br /><br />The forces driving the economy into recession are \\\"the destruction of wealth\\\" from falling stock prices and falling home values and a tightening of lending standards. The destruction of wealth so far is comparable to the amount of wealth destroyed when the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, he said, \\\"but it is more pernicious, because stock losses don\\\'t affect consumption as quickly as losses in housing wealth.\\\"&nbsp; Magnifying the effects of the loss of wealth is a \\\"considerable tightening of lending standards,\\\" he said. \\\"Lending standards are tighter now than in any time since we started keeping records in the 1960s,\\\" he said, \\\"they are even tighter than in1980.\\\" In the recession that followed the tightening of lending standards in 1980, unemployment reached 10.8 percent.<br /><br />Lower interest rates, declining energy costs, and stabilizing home values will lead to recovery, he said.<br /><br />Prakken was full of praise for the way that Benjamin Bernacke and the Federal Reserve Board have respond to the situation. \\\"The Fed has been aggressive and ingenious in providing liquidity,\\\" he said, and as a result they have prevented a 1930s-style collapse of the nation\\\'s banking system.<br /><br />Still, he added, there is a risk that the Fed\\\'s actions, even with the so-called \\\"bailout\\\" bill passed by Congress, will not be enough to get banks to lend to one another and so stimulate the economy. If that happens, the U.S. could get caught in a deflationary, zero growth trap such as the one that caught Japan in the 1990s. 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And McCain\\\'s opposition was not just to extending it, but also to reauthorizing it,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan said. \\\"So, if McCain gets elected and does away with Davis-Bacon, you\\\'ll see a 35 percent pay cut,\\\" he told his members.<br /><br />On health insurance, \\\"McCain wants to tax your health care benefits, so in addition to that 35 percent pay cut, and on top of the fact that you are already paying in your premiums to cover health care for the uninsured employees of your nonunion competitors, McCain wants to hand you a tax bill for $2500 for your health benefits,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan said. \\\"Obama wants all employers to provide health insurance,\\\" he said.<br /><br />On pension plans, \\\"McCain wants to eliminate defined benefit pension plans. He wants you to invest in the stock market for your retirement. Can you imagine what that feels like right now? Obama wants to expand defined benefit pension plans,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan said.<br /><br />Finally, on project labor agreements, \\\"McCain is against them... Obama is for them,\\\" he said.<br /><br />O\\\'Sullivan said the 2008 election is so important - he said it is about preserving the American dream and the future of the working class and the middle class in this country - that the Laborers are spending $15 million on it, and the most they\\\'d ever spent on an election before was $3 million.<br /><br />\\\"We understand that we aren\\\'t going to get any promises,\\\" O\\\'Sullivan told CNR. \\\"But after the election, the gloves come off. We stepped out to try to make America\\\'s infrastructure an election year issue. Our infrastructure is crumbling and we have to spend $1.6 trillion to rebuild it for us to have a first class country. 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This exclusive relationship between one of the world\\\'s largest architectural design firms and the only bio-inspired innovation company will integrate nature\\\'s innovations in the planning and design of buildings, communities and cities worldwide.<br /><br /><img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"180\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/2631501264_46b4e81365_m.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />Biomimicry is a science that studies nature\\\'s best ideas and imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Biomimicry has inspired numerous commercial products and individual building projects, and the new alliance between the Biomimicry Guild, established by biologists Janine Benyus and Dayna Baumeister in 1998, and HOK has the potential to dramatically expand its scale and impact.<br /><br />\\\"Given the size, breadth and diversity of HOK\\\'s design practice, our firm can significantly influence the future generation of architecture, planning and interior design projects around the world,\\\" says HOK President Bill Hellmuth.<br /><br />The built environment is the most fertile ground for biomimicry, Baumeister says. \\\"Buildings account for about 50% of total U.S. energy use, and our greatest collective impact will come from applying biomimicry to the planning and design of buildings, communities and cities -- at every scale and in every region,\\\" she says.<br /><br />HOK is uniquely positioned to expand the awareness and application of biomimicry within the built environment, advancing its long-standing commitment to sustainable design and innovation. The firm contributed to the development of the U.S. Green Building Council\\\'s original LEED rating system, has adapted LEED to new building types and regions, and authored the influential \\\"HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design.\\\"<br /><br />\\\"We believe biomimicry will not only help us significantly reduce the environmental impact of our projects, but also has the potential to help define a whole new sustainable standard for our profession,\\\" says HOK Sustainable Design Director Mary Ann Lazarus. \\\"Because biomimicry addresses critical environmental issues at the habitat scale, it gives us lessons on how to achieve significant results -- even restorative outcomes -- at all scales.\\\"<br /><br />The alliance advances the relationship between HOK and the Biomimicry Guild, which began in 2004. Both organizations have collaborated on several projects, including HOK\\\'s participation in the 2008 \\\"City of the Future\\\" competition, sponsored by The History Channel, to design the city of Atlanta in 2108. HOK and the Biomimicry Guild are working together to integrate biomimicry into the Lavasa hill station community under development near Pune, India, and are exploring potential project collaborations in Saudi Arabia and North America.<br /><br />\\\"Together with HOK, we are looking at what it means to be a bio-inspired company in the architecture space,\\\" says Biomimicry Guild Co-Founder Janine Benyus. \\\"And I think the answer to that question is really going to be something new in the world. 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This exclusive relationship between one of the world\\\'s largest architectural design firms and the only bio-inspired innovation company will integrate nature\\\'s innovations in the planning and design of buildings, communities and cities worldwide.<br /><br /><img class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"180\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/2631501264_46b4e81365_m.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"240\\\" />Biomimicry is a science that studies nature\\\'s best ideas and imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Biomimicry has inspired numerous commercial products and individual building projects, and the new alliance between the Biomimicry Guild, established by biologists Janine Benyus and Dayna Baumeister in 1998, and HOK has the potential to dramatically expand its scale and impact.<br /><br />\\\"Given the size, breadth and diversity of HOK\\\'s design practice, our firm can significantly influence the future generation of architecture, planning and interior design projects around the world,\\\" says HOK President Bill Hellmuth.<br /><br />The built environment is the most fertile ground for biomimicry, Baumeister says. \\\"Buildings account for about 50% of total U.S. energy use, and our greatest collective impact will come from applying biomimicry to the planning and design of buildings, communities and cities -- at every scale and in every region,\\\" she says.<br /><br />HOK is uniquely positioned to expand the awareness and application of biomimicry within the built environment, advancing its long-standing commitment to sustainable design and innovation. The firm contributed to the development of the U.S. Green Building Council\\\'s original LEED rating system, has adapted LEED to new building types and regions, and authored the influential \\\"HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design.\\\"<br /><br />\\\"We believe biomimicry will not only help us significantly reduce the environmental impact of our projects, but also has the potential to help define a whole new sustainable standard for our profession,\\\" says HOK Sustainable Design Director Mary Ann Lazarus. \\\"Because biomimicry addresses critical environmental issues at the habitat scale, it gives us lessons on how to achieve significant results -- even restorative outcomes -- at all scales.\\\"<br /><br />The alliance advances the relationship between HOK and the Biomimicry Guild, which began in 2004. 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Rohrbach Inc., Allentown, Pa., noted that the ASA-Midwest Council\\\'s excellence has produced enviable results: \\\"The ASA-Midwest Council has an average retention rate of 90 percent. In addition, the chapter implemented a new recruitment effort last year that resulted in overall membership growth of more than 14 percent.\\\"<br /><br />The task force, composed of ASA members and chapter executives from across the country, selected the ASA-Midwest Council for the honor on the basis of its annual self-evaluation of chapter management practices. Each ASA chapter annually prepares and submits the self-evaluation report to ASA.<br /><br />Founded in 1966, ASA amplifies the voice of, and leads, trade contractors to improve the business environment for the construction industry and to serve as a steward for the community. ASA\\\'s vision is to be the united voice dedicated to improving the business environment in the construction industry. 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Splitting his time between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, VanAsdale will be focusing on attracting business in Missouri and the surrounding states.&nbsp; He brings 12 years of experience in healthcare, government and data center design and construction.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"vanasdale\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"156\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/vanasdale_2.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"126\\\" />Before coming to Alberici, VanAsdale served as Vice President for Business Development for the Bick Group in Kansas City.&nbsp; Prior to Bick, he worked 11 years for JE Dunn in a business development role where he was responsible for clients that included Sisters of Mercy, the U.S. Postal Service, GSA, Bank of America and Wal-Mart. <br /><br />VanAsdale attended the University of Kansas and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1987.&nbsp; He has completed coursework towards an M.B.A at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"6\";}'),(666,267,4,2,1223883818,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"267\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-12 09:31 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:82:\"Alberici Constructors Hires John VanAsdale as New Director of Business Development\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:75:\"alberici_constructors_hires_john_vanasdale_as_new_director_of_business_deve\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:66:\"Alberici Announces VanAsdale as Director  of  Business Development\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:247:\"Dave Gough, vice president and market leader for Alberici Constructors\\\' General Building Division, announced that John VanAsdale has joined Alberici Constructors as director of business development for the healthcare and general building markets.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:50:\"VanAsdale, Alberici, healtchare, general buildling\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1209:\"<p>Dave Gough, vice president and market leader for Alberici Constructors\\\' General Building Division, announced that John VanAsdale has joined Alberici Constructors as director of business development for the healthcare and general building markets. Splitting his time between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, VanAsdale will be focusing on attracting business in Missouri and the surrounding states.&nbsp; He brings 12 years of experience in healthcare, government and data center design and construction.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"vanasdale\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"156\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/vanasdale_2.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"126\\\" />Before coming to Alberici, VanAsdale served as Vice President for Business Development for the Bick Group in Kansas City.&nbsp; Prior to Bick, he worked 11 years for JE Dunn in a business development role where he was responsible for clients that included Sisters of Mercy, the U.S. Postal Service, GSA, Bank of America and Wal-Mart. <br /><br />VanAsdale attended the University of Kansas and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1987.&nbsp; He has completed coursework towards an M.B.A at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"6\";}'),(667,261,4,2,1223965302,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"261\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-09 06:55 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"24\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:48:\"Metropolis Editor  Looks  for Bright  Ideas Here\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:45:\"metropolis_editor_looks_for_bright_ideas_here\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:45:\"Metropolis Editor Looks for Bright Ideas Here\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:1:\"9\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:203:\"Metropolis editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy stopped in St. Louis on Monday to take her design innovation tour to the headquarters of design firm HOK. While here, she had a few things to say about the Arch.\n\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:24:\"Szenasy, HOK, Metropolis\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2499:\"<p>Metropolis editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy stopped in St. Louis on Monday\nto take her design innovation tour to the headquarters of design firm\nHOK. While here, she had a few things to say about the Arch.<br /><br />Szenasy\nis traveling the country with \\\"Brilliant Simplicity,\\\" a short movie\nabout recent winners of the Metropolis design innovation award winners,\nto encourage large design firms to incorporate innovation into their\nprojects. She acknowledged that business and economics constrain what a\nfirm can do, but she encourages companies to search their portfolios\nfor a project where the owner would be open to incorporating \\\"high end\ninnovation\\\" into their building.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Susan Szenasy\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"200\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/sss.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"200\\\" />\\\"We have stopped being about\ninnovation in our country and we have to rekindle it,\\\" she said. While\nadmitting that most owners want only proven<br />technologies in their\nbuildings, she asked her audience to think about what it would take to\nprove new technologies. \\\"If every large design firm did<br />just one project that incorporated high-end innovation, think how much it would move architecture forward,\\\" she said.<br /><br />Szenasy\nsaid she is very excited by HOK\\\'s new partnership with the biologists\nof the Biomimicry Guild and she looks forward to seeing what comes\nout of it. \\\"Collaboration with academic researchers in\nnon-architectural fields is the way for us to move the built\nenvironment to the next level,\\\" she said.<br /><br />In a conversation\nwith CNR before her meeting with HOK designers, Szenasy expressed\nastonishment that St. Louis has done so little embrace the Arch.<br />\\\"Cities around the world would die for a symbol like the Arch,\\\" she said. \\\"The question is: what is the city doing around it?\\\"<br /><br />She\nagreed with John Berendzen of Fox Architects that how one develops the\nboundaries between the park and the city is of special importance. The<br />initiative\nby John Danforth, the former senator, and Mayor Francis Slay to get\npark land turned over to a private entity \\\"is the wrong conversation,\\\"<br />she said, and won\\\'t do anything for how the city embraces the park.<br /><br />\\\"There\nis plenty for everyone to do: the feds, local government, and the\nprivate sector,\\\" she said. \\\"For example, you go to the Arch and what do\nyou<br />see - a Cargill grain elevator. 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Highways\nand schools--60 percent of public construction spending--are in\nparticular jeopardy, because of drops in fuel and property taxes.</p>\n<p>\\\"Even the private categories with the best chance of growth in 2009,\nsuch as power plants, refineries, hospitals and higher education, have\nslowed and risk losing access to affordable loans,\\\" Simonson concluded.\n\\\"The 2009 construction employment and spending outlook will be very\nbleak unless credit markets revive promptly.\\\"</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"24\";}'),(669,264,2,2,1223967339,'a:30:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"264\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-10 10:33 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";i:1;s:2:\"24\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:45:\"Macroenomic Advisers Makes Recession Official\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:45:\"macroecomic_advisers_makes_recession_official\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:25:\"\\\"We\\\'re in a Recession\\\"\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:271:\"Joel Prakken, chairman of Macroeconomic Advisers, had some sobering news for St. Louis County business leaders on Oct. 9. 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Speaking at Midwest Bank Centre\\\'s annual economic breakfast, Prakken said, \\\"we\\\'re in a recession,\\\" and he predicted it will last until June 2009.<br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Recession\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/recession_1.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Prakken is forecasting \\\"a garden variety recession,\\\" unemployment rising to seven percent, home prices falling another nine percent, and the nation\\\'s gross domestic product falling two percent before recovering, but he added that if he is wrong, things are more likely to be worse than he expects rather than better.<br /><br />The forces driving the economy into recession are \\\"the destruction of wealth\\\" from falling stock prices and falling home values and a tightening of lending standards. The destruction of wealth so far is comparable to the amount of wealth destroyed when the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, he said, \\\"but it is more pernicious, because stock losses don\\\'t affect consumption as quickly as losses in housing wealth.\\\"&nbsp; Magnifying the effects of the loss of wealth is a \\\"considerable tightening of lending standards,\\\" he said. \\\"Lending standards are tighter now than in any time since we started keeping records in the 1960s,\\\" he said, \\\"they are even tighter than in1980.\\\" In the recession that followed the tightening of lending standards in 1980, unemployment reached 10.8 percent.<br /><br />Lower interest rates, declining energy costs, and stabilizing home values will lead to recovery, he said.<br /><br />Prakken was full of praise for the way that Benjamin Bernacke and the Federal Reserve Board have respond to the situation. \\\"The Fed has been aggressive and ingenious in providing liquidity,\\\" he said, and as a result they have prevented a 1930s-style collapse of the nation\\\'s banking system.<br /><br />Still, he added, there is a risk that the Fed\\\'s actions, even with the so-called \\\"bailout\\\" bill passed by Congress, will not be enough to get banks to lend to one another and so stimulate the economy. If that happens, the U.S. could get caught in a deflationary, zero growth trap such as the one that caught Japan in the 1990s. 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Additionally, just over 25 percent plan to hire in the upcoming quarter, down from 29 percent in the second quarter. \n \n“The reduced demand for landscape architecture work comes as no surprise considering the current problems with the economy,â€ said Nancy Somerville, Executive Vice President and CEO of ASLA. “International projects, particularly in the Middle East and Pacific Rim, are a strong and expanding source of work for many firms. Domestically, the public sector remains the most robust source of projects.â€\n \nThe survey also asked about landscape architects’ perception of sustainability issues related to local, state and national government as well as in the 2008 election cycle. On a 1-10 scale, landscape architects rated local governments as most effective in championing sustainable solutions (5.54), followed by state governments (5.34) and federal (4.35). Overall, nearly half (48.3 percent) of landscape architects think sustainability issues currently play a larger role than the 2004 election while approximately three in ten (31.3 percent) think these issues are not a significant part of candidates’ agendas. \n \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:34:\"ASLA, landscape architects, survey\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1850:\"<p>Less than half of landscape architecture offices responding were busier than usual last quarter, and only a quarter of firms plan to hire in the short term as the economic turmoil begins to be felt across the profession, according to the latest Business Quarterly survey by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). <br /><br />Only 44 percent of the 267 responding landscape architecture offices reported average or above billable hours in third quarter 2008, (July 1 - September 30), and just under 43 percent reported average or above inquiries during the same period-12 and 7 percentage-point reductions, respectively, from the previous quarter. 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The RSCA also recommends that contractors protect themselves by modifying their contracts to explain the likelihood of further<br />price increases and pass through any increases that do occur.<br /><br />\\\"If you\\\'re bidding on high-end custom homes or commercial contracts, it is a no-win situation for the supplier and contractor,\\\" said RSCA President Jim<br />Compton. \\\"If you bid on a project with long-term projections, your price will be distorted and you won\\\'t be competitive; and if you bid with the<br />current price, chances are the contract will only be good for a couple of weeks. 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A full breakfast will be provided at the event, which is scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n<p>KAI is a leader in Building Information Modeling, applying it to architectural, engineering and construction projects firm-wide. KAI is a member of the National Institute of Building Sciences\\\' (NIBS) buildingSMART Alliance<sup>TM</sup>, a national committee responsible for developing BIM standards. BIM allows contractors to build a facility virtually before it is ever constructed physically. The conference is geared toward general contractors, owners, developers and engineers who would like to learn how they can build faster, smarter and cheaper using BIM technology, without the investment of time and money required to implement the technology in-house.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The \\\"Build Before You Build\\\" seminar will address the following: <br />&bull;Competitive advantages BIM brings to general contractors.<br />&bull;Actual field examples of project schedule and cost savings through BIM.<br />&bull;Why general contractors cannot always rely on architect-supplied BIM models.<br />&bull;Customizing your level of investment to each project.<br />&bull;How an outsourced BIM model can pay for itself.</p>\n<p>KAI presenters will include keynote speaker Adam Lega, BIM coordinator; Michael Kennedy Jr., president; Donald Koppy, director of architecture; Bruce Wood, Director of SP2CM/Construction Services; and Promod Kumar, Director of MEP Engineering. Lega has authored numerous articles on BIM for such local, regional and national publications as Builder/Architect, CNR, PE Magazine and Engineering News Record. Seating at the event is limited. 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Corporations that differentiate themselves with sustainable, integrated organizational strategies will realize competitive advantage in today\\\'s marketplace.  More than just a passing fad, sustainable facilities are now an imperative for business success.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:37:\"Kurt Thompson, Oculus, sustainability\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:4874:\"<p>Global climate change is bringing the onset of a remarkable change to business strategy. Corporations that differentiate themselves with sustainable, integrated organizational strategies will realize competitive advantage in today\\\'s marketplace.&nbsp; More than just a passing fad, sustainable facilities are now an imperative for business success.<br /><br />The built environment has a profound impact on our natural environment, economy, health, and productivity. Buildings in the United States annually account for 39% of total energy consumption, 71% of electricity consumption, 39% of greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, 30% of raw materials use, 30% of waste output, 12% of potable water consumption. Worldwide, buildings account for 17% of fresh water withdrawals, 25% of total wood harvest, 33% of greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, and 40% of material and energy use (45% in China).<br /><br />The concept of sustainability and green building emerged more than twenty years ago and is today regarded as one of the leading drivers of building design and construction. The positive effects of green building can be linked directly to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting global climate change.<br /><br />Worldwide, green building has enjoyed a tremendous impact on the way buildings are designed and constructed. However, it is the next generation\\\'s perspective that will link green building directly to the bottom line of corporations. A study by the United States Green Building Council&nbsp; (USGBC) states that 89% of the next generation of consumers will choose brands aligned with social cause, 74% listen to brands aligned with social cause, 69% shop for brands aligned with social cause, and 66% of consumers recommend brands aligned with social cause.<br /><br />Furthering the research into social cause and consumer trends, leading global consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Company conducted a worldwide survey of business executives and consumers aimed at quantifying the relationship between organizational strategy and consumer behavior.&nbsp; The survey identified that business executives now consider the environment as the leading sociopolitical issue that will attract the most attention from the public and politicians for at least the next five years. It also implicitly concluded results similar to those of the USGBC study linking corporate social responsibility to consumer buying habits and trends3. The four major industries most affected by these trends, as indicated by the survey will be food and beverage, high_tech, petroleum, and retailing.&nbsp; Businesses must act on global warming to narrow a general trust gap between them and the public.<br /><br />Beyond social cause, green design and sustainable strategies can unequivocally be linked with increased worker productivity and using green materials increases health benefits. A Herman_Miller study found a 7% increase in worker productivity following a move to a green, daylit facility. Reports from other companies that have developed sustainable design and business strategies echo those of the Herman_ Miller study, and additionally state a 5% decrease in sick employee sick time.<br /><br />According to the Gregory Kats \\\"Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits\\\" [2003] Report, \\\"a 1% increase in productivity (equal to 5 minutes per working day) is equal to $600 to $700 per employee per year, or $3 sq ft per year. A 1.5% increase in productivity&nbsp;&mdash; a little over 7 minutes each working day &mdash; is equal to about $1,000 per year, or $4 to $5 sq ft per year. Over 20 years and at a 5% real discount rate, the present value of the productivity benefits is about $35 sq ft for Certified and Silver level buildings.\\\"<br /><br />Sustainable strategies reduce operating expenses, improve the life cycle cost of business operations, and increase return on investment. Green design and building leads to an 8_9% decrease in operating costs, 7.5% increase in building values, 6.6% improvement in return on investment, 3.5% increase in occupancy, and a 3% increase in rent rates.<br /><br />Business executives can no longer afford to ignore the benefits of green building, nor the social impact of environmental strategy and corporate social responsibility. Global climate change is happening, and whether or not the merits and causes are scientifically agreed upon - the evidence of change is clear. In order to differentiate in this new marketplace, corporations must respond with an organizational strategy aligned with the natural environment. <br /><em><br /><br />Kurt Thompson is the&nbsp; founder of&nbsp; Ecostrategy, which provides sustainability and environmental strategy consulting and education services to clients of Oculus Inc.&nbsp; Oculus Inc. is a, WBE-Certified, full-service architecture and consulting services firm.</em><br /></p>\";}');
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Buildings in the United States annually account for 39% of total energy consumption, 71% of electricity consumption, 39% of greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, 30% of raw materials use, 30% of waste output, 12% of potable water consumption. Worldwide, buildings account for 17% of fresh water withdrawals, 25% of total wood harvest, 33% of greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, and 40% of material and energy use (45% in China).<br /><br />The concept of sustainability and green building emerged more than twenty years ago and is today regarded as one of the leading drivers of building design and construction. The positive effects of green building can be linked directly to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting global climate change.<br /><br />Worldwide, green building has enjoyed a tremendous impact on the way buildings are designed and constructed. However, it is the next generation\\\'s perspective that will link green building directly to the bottom line of corporations. A study by the United States Green Building Council&nbsp; (USGBC) states that 89% of the next generation of consumers will choose brands aligned with social cause, 74% listen to brands aligned with social cause, 69% shop for brands aligned with social cause, and 66% of consumers recommend brands aligned with social cause.<br /><br />Furthering the research into social cause and consumer trends, leading global consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Company conducted a worldwide survey of business executives and consumers aimed at quantifying the relationship between organizational strategy and consumer behavior.&nbsp; The survey identified that business executives now consider the environment as the leading sociopolitical issue that will attract the most attention from the public and politicians for at least the next five years. It also implicitly concluded results similar to those of the USGBC study linking corporate social responsibility to consumer buying habits and trends. The four major industries most affected by these trends, as indicated by the survey will be food and beverage, high_tech, petroleum, and retailing.&nbsp; Businesses must act on global warming to narrow a general trust gap between them and the public.<br /><br />Beyond social cause, green design and sustainable strategies can unequivocally be linked with increased worker productivity and using green materials increases health benefits. A Herman_Miller study found a 7% increase in worker productivity following a move to a green, daylit facility. Reports from other companies that have developed sustainable design and business strategies echo those of the Herman_ Miller study, and additionally state a 5% decrease in sick employee sick time.<br /><br />According to the Gregory Kats \\\"Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits\\\" [2003] Report, \\\"a 1% increase in productivity (equal to 5 minutes per working day) is equal to $600 to $700 per employee per year, or $3 sq ft per year. 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The four major industries most affected by these trends, as indicated by the survey will be food and beverage, high_tech, petroleum, and retailing.&nbsp; Businesses must act on global warming to narrow a general trust gap between them and the public.<br /><br />Beyond social cause, green design and sustainable strategies can unequivocally be linked with increased worker productivity and using green materials increases health benefits. A Herman_Miller study found a 7% increase in worker productivity following a move to a green, daylit facility. Reports from other companies that have developed sustainable design and business strategies echo those of the Herman_ Miller study, and additionally state a 5% decrease in sick employee sick time.<br /><br />According to the Gregory Kats \\\"Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits\\\" [2003] Report, \\\"a 1% increase in productivity (equal to 5 minutes per working day) is equal to $600 to $700 per employee per year, or $3 sq ft per year. 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The project thrust Mr. Horner into national prominence at the time of its completion in 1931 and eventually led to his founding of Horner &amp; Shifrin with Hymen Shifrin.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<br />In looking back on the company&rsquo;s rich legacy, President William Clarke said, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been successful at doing good work for our clients because of our customer service focus. I am proudest, though, of our core values--we strive to adhere to them in all we do. We have also been fortunate to attract and retain exceptional people. We intend to carry on the same traditions of excellence established by our founders for the next 75 years. Our employee-owners share a commitment to apply our expertise to the highest standards, exercising our knowledge and skills for the benefit of our community, client and fellow employee.&rdquo;<br />&nbsp;<br /><br />Horner &amp; Shifrin, Inc., is a 100% employee-owned multidisciplinary firm of 62 professionals and technical support personnel with offices in St. Louis and O&rsquo;Fallon, Illinois. 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What are the rewards for those who are\nprepared?</p>\n<p>Because of your leadership position the St. Louis construction\nindustry, we invite you to BE OUR GUEST at this special program, which\nwill kick off CNR\\\'s 40th year as the \\\"Voice for the St. Louis\nConstruction Industry.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Date:</strong> Wednesday, November 5th, 2008</p>\n<p><strong>Time:</strong> 7:30-9:30 a.m.</p>\n<p><strong>Location:</strong> Missouri Athletic Club, 1777 Des Peres Road</p>\n<p><strong>Format:</strong> Continental Breakfast, Panel Presentation, Q&amp;A</p>\n<h2>KICKOFF SPEAKER</h2>\n<p>Richard Ward (Principal, Zimmer Real Estate Services, St. Louis;\nformer CEO of Development Strategies and of Team Four): Overview of the\nSt.&nbsp;Louis market, its historic tendencies, demographic, political, and\nmarket forces, and prognosis for the year.</p>\n<h2>PANELISTS</h2>\n<p><strong>Len Toenjes</strong> (CEO, AGC of St. Louis) Market and political forces (transportation, minorities, etc.) affecting contractors</p>\n<p><strong>Walt Bazan</strong> (CEO Bazan Painting, national board of directors\nAmerican Subcontractors Association) Risks to subs in a down market\n(price volatility, risk assumption)</p>\n<p><strong>Mike Flavin</strong> (President, The Business Bank of St. Louis)\nFinancial roadblocks to projects, working capital issues for\nconstruction companies and developers</p>\n<p><strong>Andy Manuel </strong>(Shareholder, Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale, PC)\nLegal risks in developer failures, BIM, ConsensuDocs, LEED\ncertification, and material volatility. Labor issues emerging from\ntighter market.</p>\n<p><strong>Pete Mohs </strong>(Vice President, J.W. Terrill) Risk in bonding,\nelectronic building technologies, implied guarantees and health risks\nin \\\"green \\\" construction, fallout from additional focus on crane safety.</p>\n<p>Attendance is free, but registration is required. For registration or more information, email <a href=\\\"mailto:summit@stlouiscnr.com\\\">summit@stlouiscnr.com</a>, fax to St. Louis CNR at 314.241.0241, or call Tom Finan at 314.584.4717.</p>\n</td>\n<td width=\\\"20\\\"><br /></td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"24\";}'),(682,272,5,2,1224031258,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"5\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"272\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-13 10:03 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"9\";i:1;s:2:\"24\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"5\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:56:\"Sustainable Facilities Now A Business Success Imperative\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:56:\"sustainable_facilities_now_a_business_success_imperative\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_20\";s:56:\"Sustainable Facilities Now A Business Success Imperative\";s:11:\"field_ft_20\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_25\";s:3:\"271\";s:11:\"field_id_45\";s:344:\"Global climate change is bringing the onset of a remarkable change to business strategy. Corporations that differentiate themselves with sustainable, integrated organizational strategies will realize competitive advantage in today\\\'s marketplace.  More than just a passing fad, sustainable facilities are now an imperative for business success.\";s:11:\"field_ft_45\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_22\";s:37:\"Kurt Thompson, Oculus, sustainability\";s:11:\"field_ft_22\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_23\";s:4587:\"<p>Global climate change is bringing the onset of a remarkable change to business strategy. Corporations that differentiate themselves with sustainable, integrated organizational strategies will realize competitive advantage in today\\\'s marketplace.&nbsp; More than just a passing fad, sustainable facilities are now an imperative for business success.<br /><br />The built environment has a profound impact on our natural environment, economy, health, and productivity. Buildings in the United States annually account for 39% of total energy consumption, 71% of electricity consumption, 39% of greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, 30% of raw materials use, 30% of waste output, 12% of potable water consumption. Worldwide, buildings account for 17% of fresh water withdrawals, 25% of total wood harvest, 33% of greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions, and 40% of material and energy use (45% in China).<br /><br />The concept of sustainability and green building emerged more than twenty years ago and is today regarded as one of the leading drivers of building design and construction. The positive effects of green building can be linked directly to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and offsetting global climate change.<br /><br />Worldwide, green building has enjoyed a tremendous impact on the way buildings are designed and constructed. However, it is the next generation\\\'s perspective that will link green building directly to the bottom line of corporations. A study by the United States Green Building Council&nbsp; (USGBC) states that 89% of the next generation of consumers will choose brands aligned with social cause, 74% listen to brands aligned with social cause, 69% shop for brands aligned with social cause, and 66% of consumers recommend brands aligned with social cause.<br /><br />Furthering the research into social cause and consumer trends, leading global consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Company conducted a worldwide survey of business executives and consumers aimed at quantifying the relationship between organizational strategy and consumer behavior.&nbsp; The survey identified that business executives now consider the environment as the leading sociopolitical issue that will attract the most attention from the public and politicians for at least the next five years. It also implicitly concluded results similar to those of the USGBC study linking corporate social responsibility to consumer buying habits and trends. The four major industries most affected by these trends, as indicated by the survey will be food and beverage, high_tech, petroleum, and retailing.&nbsp; Businesses must act on global warming to narrow a general trust gap between them and the public.<br /><br />Beyond social cause, green design and sustainable strategies can unequivocally be linked with increased worker productivity and using green materials increases health benefits. A Herman_Miller study found a 7% increase in worker productivity following a move to a green, daylit facility. Reports from other companies that have developed sustainable design and business strategies echo those of the Herman_ Miller study, and additionally state a 5% decrease in sick employee sick time.<br /><br />According to the Gregory Kats \\\"Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits\\\" [2003] Report, \\\"a 1% increase in productivity (equal to 5 minutes per working day) is equal to $600 to $700 per employee per year, or $3 sq ft per year. A 1.5% increase in productivity&nbsp;&mdash; a little over 7 minutes each working day &mdash; is equal to about $1,000 per year, or $4 to $5 sq ft per year. Over 20 years and at a 5% real discount rate, the present value of the productivity benefits is about $35 sq ft for Certified and Silver level buildings.\\\"<br /><br />Sustainable strategies reduce operating expenses, improve the life cycle cost of business operations, and increase return on investment. Green design and building leads to an 8_9% decrease in operating costs, 7.5% increase in building values, 6.6% improvement in return on investment, 3.5% increase in occupancy, and a 3% increase in rent rates.<br /><br />Business executives can no longer afford to ignore the benefits of green building, nor the social impact of environmental strategy and corporate social responsibility. Global climate change is happening, and whether or not the merits and causes are scientifically agreed upon - the evidence of change is clear. In order to differentiate in this new marketplace, corporations must respond with an organizational strategy aligned with the natural environment. <em><br /></em></p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"24\";}'),(683,275,4,2,1224049893,'a:25:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-14 07:29 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:29:\"Timothy R. McCarthy, 83, Dies\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:26:\"timothy_r_mccarthy_83_dies\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:29:\"Timothy R. 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The company he founded in 1864 is now a billion dollar construction firm with offices nationwide. <br /><br />The first Timothy McCarthy had 10 children, and taught carpentry to two sons, John W. and Timothy Jr. His son Charles became a bricklayer. John W. moved the business to Farmington, MO. It moved to St. Louis in&nbsp; 1917, where it was renamed McCarthy Brothers Construction&nbsp; Co. <br /><br />Completion in 1961 of the Priory Chapel helped establish the company\\\'s reputation as a significant force in St. Louis construction.</p>\n<p>As the company slowly expanded, so did the McCarthy family &mdash; with many members filling leadership positions within the firm. Timothy R. McCarthy,Merryl L. McCarthy,&nbsp; John E. McCarthy, J. Melvin McCarthy and Francis F. 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McCarthy, 83, Dies\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:26:\"timothy_r_mccarthy_83_dies\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:29:\"Timothy R. McCarthy, 83, Dies\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:149:\"Timothy R. McCarthy, 83, a member of the family that founded the  140-year-old St. Louis construction firm McCarthy Building Companies, died Monday. \";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:54:\"Timothy R. McCarthy, McCarthy Building Companies, died\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2063:\"<p>Timothy R. 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In today\\\'s economic climate that risk is at an all-time high.\nHow do the owners, contractors and the others in the industry protect\nthemselves against the volatility of the financial markets and fuel and\nmaterial price escalation? What are the rewards for those who are\nprepared?</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"CNR Summit\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/cnr-summit.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Because of your leadership position the St. Louis construction\nindustry, we invite you to BE OUR GUEST at this special program, which\nwill kick off CNR\\\'s 40th year as the \\\"Voice for the St. Louis\nConstruction Industry.\\\"</p>\n<p><strong>Date:</strong> Wednesday, November 5th, 2008</p>\n<p><strong>Time:</strong> 7:30-9:30 a.m.</p>\n<p><strong>Location:</strong> Missouri Athletic Club, 1777 Des Peres Road</p>\n<p><strong>Format:</strong> Continental Breakfast, Panel Presentation, Q&amp;A</p>\n<h2>KICKOFF SPEAKER</h2>\n<p>Richard Ward (Principal, Zimmer Real Estate Services, St. Louis;\nformer CEO of Development Strategies and of Team Four): Overview of the\nSt.&nbsp;Louis market, its historic tendencies, demographic, political, and\nmarket forces, and prognosis for the year.</p>\n<h2>PANELISTS</h2>\n<p><strong>Len Toenjes</strong> (CEO, AGC of St. Louis) Market and political forces (transportation, minorities, etc.) affecting contractors</p>\n<p><strong>Walt Bazan</strong> (CEO Bazan Painting, national board of directors\nAmerican Subcontractors Association) Risks to subs in a down market\n(price volatility, risk assumption)</p>\n<p><strong>Mike Flavin</strong> (President, The Business Bank of St. Louis)\nFinancial roadblocks to projects, working capital issues for\nconstruction companies and developers</p>\n<p><strong>Andy Manuel </strong>(Shareholder, Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale, PC)\nLegal risks in developer failures, BIM, ConsensuDocs, LEED\ncertification, and material volatility. Labor issues emerging from\ntighter market.</p>\n<p><strong>Pete Mohs </strong>(Vice President, J.W. Terrill) Risk in bonding,\nelectronic building technologies, implied guarantees and health risks\nin \\\"green \\\" construction, fallout from additional focus on crane safety.</p>\n<p>Attendance is free, but registration is required. For registration or more information, email <a href=\\\"mailto:summit@stlouiscnr.com\\\">summit@stlouiscnr.com</a>, fax to St. Louis CNR at 314.241.0241, or call Tom Finan at 314.584.4717.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"25\";}'),(741,284,4,2,1224635213,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"284\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-18 06:13 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";i:1;s:2:\"25\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"Kolb Grading Opens New Headquarters in Weldon Spring\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:52:\"kolb_grading_opens_new_headquarters_in_weldon_spring\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:52:\"Kolb Grading Opens New Headquarters in Weldon Spring\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:205:\"Kolb Grading recently moved into their new Weldon Spring headquarters, a 41,200-square-foot facility including offices, maintenance building and canopy area on a 23 acre site along the Highway 94 corridor.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:30:\"Kolb Grading, new headquarters\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:985:\"<p>Kolb Grading recently moved into their new Weldon Spring headquarters, a 41,200-square-foot facility including offices, maintenance building and canopy area on a 23 acre site along the Highway 94 corridor.<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"Kolb Excavating headquarters\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"225\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/kolb.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"300\\\" />\\\"It is always great to see a long time member of our business community invest and expand their facilities,\\\" said Weldon Spring Mayor Don Licklider.&nbsp; \\\"Kolb Grading is yet another fine example of a company reinvesting in their business operations and their community.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br /><img src=\\\"file:///Users/tom/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg\\\" />Kolb Grading has over 40 years experience in highway project management and grading, levee and lake projects, environmental clean up and disposal, golf course creation, and a wide variety of related construction support services.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"6\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"25\";}'),(742,284,4,2,1224635244,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"284\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-18 06:13 AM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"6\";i:1;s:2:\"25\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"Kolb Grading Opens New Headquarters in Weldon Spring\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:52:\"kolb_grading_opens_new_headquarters_in_weldon_spring\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:52:\"Kolb Grading Opens New Headquarters in Weldon Spring\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:205:\"Kolb Grading recently moved into their new Weldon Spring headquarters, a 41,200-square-foot facility including offices, maintenance building and canopy area on a 23 acre site along the Highway 94 corridor.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:30:\"Kolb Grading, new headquarters\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:985:\"<p>Kolb Grading recently moved into their new Weldon Spring headquarters, a 41,200-square-foot facility including offices, maintenance building and canopy area on a 23 acre site along the Highway 94 corridor.<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"Kolb Excavating headquarters\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"225\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/kolb.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"300\\\" />\\\"It is always great to see a long time member of our business community invest and expand their facilities,\\\" said Weldon Spring Mayor Don Licklider.&nbsp; \\\"Kolb Grading is yet another fine example of a company reinvesting in their business operations and their community.\\\"<br />&nbsp;<br /><img src=\\\"file:///Users/tom/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg\\\" />Kolb Grading has over 40 years experience in highway project management and grading, levee and lake projects, environmental clean up and disposal, golf course creation, and a wide variety of related construction support services.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"6\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"25\";}'),(743,285,4,2,1224635270,'a:27:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"285\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-18 03:53 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";i:1;s:2:\"25\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:68:\"Catholic Archdiocese Spends $15-$20 Million Per Year on Construction\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:66:\"catholic_archdiocese_spends_15_20_million_per_year_on_construction\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:68:\"Catholic Archdiocese Spends $15-$20 Million Per Year on Construction\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:191:\"In good times and bad, the Archdiocese of St. Louis spends, on average $15 million a year on construction, an article in this week\\\'s St. Louis Review, the Archdiocese\\\'s newspaper, reported.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:4422:\"<p>In good times and bad, the Archdiocese of St. Louis spends, on average $15 million a year on construction, an article in this week\\\'s <em>St. Louis Review, </em>the Archdiocese\\\'s newspaper, reported.</p>\n<p>There are between 10 and 20\nbuilding projects going on in the St.\nLouis Archdiocese at any one time,\naccording to Bob Palisch, manager\nof archdiocesan building projects in\nthe Building and Real Estate Office.\n<br />\\\"About 10 to 15 projects a year\nare under contract, probably 15 to\n20 are going on at any one time\nwith another two or three in some\nstage of development,\\\" Palisch\nsaid.\nThe Building and Real Estate\nOffice provides advice and consultation\nfor parishes in the 11-county\narchdiocese seeking to build, enlarge\nor renovate their facilities.\n<br /><br /> The office also works with archdiocesan\nand regional high schools\nin their building projects.\n<br /><br /> \\\"There is an average of $15 million\na year spent on construction\ncosts\\\" by archdiocesan entities,\nPalisch said. \\\"That\\\'s not counting\nland acquisitions.\\\"\n<br /><br /> He added, \\\"It\\\'s been like this for\nyears.\\\"\n<br /><br /> To assist parishes, the Building\nand Real Estate Office has a list of\npre-approved architects and contractors\nwho can work with them.\n<br /><br /> Tom Richter, director of the\nBuilding and Real Estate Office,\nexplained, \\\"We set up parishes and\nschools contemplating construction\nwith three architects to interview\nseparately. They pick one. Then the\nparish usually starts fundraising activities\nand figures out what their\nbudget is.\\\"\n<br /><br /> <img alt=\\\"Sacred Heart Valley Park\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"167\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/sacred-heart.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"250\\\" />Parishes usually do that with the\nhelp of the Archdiocesan Finance\nOffice. David Fairchild of that office\nexplained, \\\"We\\\'re the lender. ...\nBy statute a parish cannot borrow\noutside of the archdiocese, so the\nSt. Louis Archdiocesan Fund becomes\nthe lender.\\\"</p>\n<h4>Father Denny Schaab, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Valley Park, consults with school principal Joan Wojciechowski, right, and Cheryl Degenhart, director of religious educati.on, in front of the new parish building, a 29,000-square-foot gym/auditorium, expected to be completed in April.</h4>\n<p>Fairchild said, \\\"The Archdiocesan\nFund rule is to raise half of\nwhat you need first, then come to\nus. We don\\\'t loan out more than\nhalf a project.\\\" If that doesn\\\'t happen,\n\\\"we suggest cutting back on\nthe project or phasing it over time.\\\"\n<br /><br /> Palisch said, \\\"There are about\n12 projects right now under construction.\nThe two biggest are St.\nPatrick in Wentzville, which is\nbuilding a new parish hall, and Sacred\nHeart in Valley Park, which is\nbuilding a gym/auditorium.\n<br /><br /> \\\"Our building is about 29,000\nsquare feet,\\\" said Father Denny\nSchaab, pastor of Sacred Heart\nParish. \\\"It includes a stage and gym\nwith two junior high\nbasketball/volleyball courts ... and\nthe school and religious education\noffices, an all-day kindergarten\nroom, a music room and a faculty\nlounge.\\\"\n<br /><br /> Construction is slated to be\ncompleted in April, and everyone\nin the parish is excited, the pastor\nsaid, especially at Sacred Heart\nSchool.\n<br /><br /> The school recently won its\nthird Physical Fitness State Champion\nAward from the President\\\'s\nCouncil on Physical Fitness and\nSports.\n<br /><br /> \\\"And that\\\'s without a gym,\\\"\nsaid Father Schaab. \\\"We have an\nexcellent physical education program\nhere, and they\\\'re very excited\nabout the gym.\\\"\n<br /><br /> The new building will serve the\nwhole parish, Father Schaab said.\nWith 2,760 households, Sacred\nHeart currently has no space large\nenough to host a Confirmation reception\nor other parish social functions.\n<br /><br /> \\\"We\\\'ve been renting for our social\nfunctions. So now we\\\'ll be able\nto do everything on site,\\\" the pastor\nsaid. \\\"And the gym will include\nan elevated walking track, for\nadults only that overlooks the gym\nand has a separate entrance. This is\nfor the whole parish.\\\"\n<br /><br /> Other current projects include a\nnew school at St. Joseph Parish in\nJosephville; parking lot construction\nat St. Paul in Fenton; a new\ngym at St. Dominic High School in\nO\\\'Fallon; interior renovations and\na new entrance to John F. 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During his time in St. Louis, he served as chairman of the board of the Associated General Contractors\\\' St. Louis chapter and was a founding board member of the Construction Career Center, the first charter construction high school in the country.&nbsp; He was selected to open McCarthy\\\'s Atlanta office in 2005</p>\n<h4></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;Scott Wittkop becomes president of the new Central Division headquartered in St. Louis, overseeing McCarthy operations in the remaining states east of the Rockies as well as its health care, science &amp; technology, and St. Louis business units.</p>\n<h4><img alt=\\\"Kevin Kuntz\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"329\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Kuntz-Portrait.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"230\\\" />Kevin Kuntz, New mccarthy Southeast Division President</h4>\n<p>Since joining McCarthy in 1986 as a project engineer, Wittkop has spent the last 23 years moving up through the ranks of the organization In 2006 he became vice president, operations for the Midwest Healthcare Business Unit, following his service as a project director in Denver.&nbsp; 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The company he founded in 1864 is now a billion dollar construction firm with offices nationwide. <br /><br />The first Timothy McCarthy had 10 children, and taught carpentry to two sons, John W. and Timothy Jr. His son Charles became a bricklayer. John W. moved the business to Farmington, MO. It moved to St. Louis in&nbsp; 1917, where it was renamed McCarthy Brothers Construction&nbsp; Co. <br /><br />Completion in 1961 of the Priory Chapel helped establish the company\\\'s reputation as a significant force in St. Louis construction.</p>\n<p>As the company slowly expanded, so did the McCarthy family &mdash; with many members filling leadership positions within the firm. Timothy R. McCarthy,Merryl L. McCarthy,&nbsp; John E. McCarthy, J. Melvin McCarthy and Francis F. 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The program recognizes companies for their revitalization efforts in low-income rural and urban areas throughout the country. Almost $300 million in tax credits were awarded to Missouri organizations. <br />With the tax credits allocated through the NMTC program, McCormack Baron Salazar plans to invest in retail, commercial, educational and for-sale revitalization projects across the country, including St. Louis. This is the third such allocation received by MBS: the firm received $60 million in allocations in each of the prior two rounds of competition. The company has used its first allocation, received in 2006, to develop projects in North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri.</p>\n<p>Richard Baron, MBS\\\'s chairman and CEO, was happy to receive this newest allocation. \\\"We\\\'re doing such vital work in cities like St. Louis, New Orleans, Memphis and Los Angeles. These credits will enable us to continue our revitalization efforts, even in this difficult economic environment.\\\"</p>\n<p>The company has a pipeline of development opportunities in which to use the credits, including Missouri, California, Louisiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. Through its Community Development Entity (CDE) that received the award, MBS has appointed a nationally recognized advisory board to help select the highest impact projects for the use of the tax credits.</p>\n<p>\\\"New Markets Tax Credits have allowed our firm to expand its efforts to bring new commercial and economic activity into our neighborhoods around the country,\\\" said Jonathan Goldstein, MBS\\\'s senior vice president. \\\"We hope to continue to invest in projects of highest importance to these communities, with the continued support of the Treasury Department.\\\"</p>\n<p>McCormack Baron Salazar has been leading efforts to revitalize a number of communities in the City of St. Louis. 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It is even more attractive because it will be a cornerstone of the Blumeyer Revitalization and will be a catalyst for employment and business opportunities for our residents,\\\" said Cheryl Lovell, executive director of Saint Louis Housing Authority.</p>\n<p>Located just east of the intersection of Page Avenue and North Grand Boulevard and adjacent to the 512-unit Renaissance Place at Grand, the $9 million, 37,000 square foot SLHA office building w ill include a full-service National City Bank branch and space for a caf&eacute; to serve the SLHA&rsquo;s 90 employees, visitors and the surrounding community. The Blumeyer Village Tenants Association (BVTA) was instrumental in bringing the project to fruition. Urban Strategies, Inc., in conjunction with the BVTA, is working with community residents and entrepreneurs to link them with employment opportunities at the site, and to encourage wider use of traditional banking facilities.</p>\n<p>SLHA selected MBS through a competitive RFQ process. The developer has deep local experience working with SLHA; its developments include the redevelopment of Vaughn public housing as the Murphy Park mixed income community, and the transformation of Blumeyer public housing as the new Renaissance Place at Grand mixed income community. The firm also specializes in urban commercial and mixed-use developments, including the 6 North development near St. Louis University, the Big Brothers Big Sisters / Woolworth Building at Grand Center, and The Westin/Cupples Station project next to Busch Stadium. The combination of this experience, together with the firm&rsquo;s commitment of New Markets Tax Credits to support the project, was instrumental in bringing the final pieces together.</p>\n<p>\\\"Through the use of New Market Credits, McCormack Baron Salazar was able to support the Authority&rsquo;s goal, leverage private equity to close the gap in funding, and realize the commitment made to the residents and the Housing Authority. To our knowledge, this project represents the first in the country to combine New Markets Tax Credits with HUD Capital Funds in a mixed-finance transaction,\\\" said Vince Bennett, Executive vice president of MBS.</p>\n<p>In addition to HUD Capital Funds and other SLHA resources, the SLHA office building is financed by tax credit equity from US Bancorp Community Development Corporation <br />(USBCDC), an affiliate of US Bank, from the investment in an allocation of NMTCs provided by MBS CDE; and funds from the Greater St. Louis Regional Empowerment Zone. <br />Completion is anticipated in late summer, 2009.</p>\n<p>Founded in 1973, McCormack Baron Salazar, a St. Louis-based nationally-recognized urban housing development and management company, has completed over 131 projects in 33 cities with development costs of $2 billion. 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The program recognizes companies for their revitalization efforts in low-income rural and urban areas throughout the country. Almost $300 million in tax credits were awarded to Missouri organizations. <br />With the tax credits allocated through the NMTC program, McCormack Baron Salazar plans to invest in retail, commercial, educational and for-sale revitalization projects across the country, including St. Louis. This is the third such allocation received by MBS: the firm received $60 million in allocations in each of the prior two rounds of competition. The company has used its first allocation, received in 2006, to develop projects in North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri.</p>\n<p>Richard Baron, MBS\\\'s chairman and CEO, was happy to receive this newest allocation. \\\"We\\\'re doing such vital work in cities like St. Louis, New Orleans, Memphis and Los Angeles. These credits will enable us to continue our revitalization efforts, even in this difficult economic environment.\\\"</p>\n<p>The company has a pipeline of development opportunities in which to use the credits, including Missouri, California, Louisiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. Through its Community Development Entity (CDE) that received the award, MBS has appointed a nationally recognized advisory board to help select the highest impact projects for the use of the tax credits.</p>\n<p>\\\"New Markets Tax Credits have allowed our firm to expand its efforts to bring new commercial and economic activity into our neighborhoods around the country,\\\" said Jonathan Goldstein, MBS\\\'s senior vice president. \\\"We hope to continue to invest in projects of highest importance to these communities, with the continued support of the Treasury Department.\\\"</p>\n<p>McCormack Baron Salazar has been leading efforts to revitalize a number of communities in the City of St. Louis. Major developments in the St. Louis area have included Westminster Place, a 470-unit, multi-phased community located in the once deteriorated Westminster area; Murphy Park, a 530-unit mixed income, multi-generational community at the site of the former Vaughn Housing development; and Renaissance Place, a 510-unit, mixed income, multi-generational community located on the north border of the city\\\'s Grand Center Arts and Entertainment District.</p>\n<h2><strong>New Grand Center Office Building</strong></h2>\n<p>Also on Oct. 21, MBS and the St. Louis Housing Authority (SLHA) announced that they have closed financing and begun construction on a new office building in the Grand Center district of St. Louis. 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It is even more attractive because it will be a cornerstone of the Blumeyer Revitalization and will be a catalyst for employment and business opportunities for our residents,\\\" said Cheryl Lovell, executive director of Saint Louis Housing Authority.</p>\n<p>Located just east of the intersection of Page Avenue and North Grand Boulevard and adjacent to the 512-unit Renaissance Place at Grand, the $9 million, 37,000 square foot SLHA office building w ill include a full-service National City Bank branch and space for a caf&eacute; to serve the SLHA&rsquo;s 90 employees, visitors and the surrounding community. The Blumeyer Village Tenants Association (BVTA) was instrumental in bringing the project to fruition. Urban Strategies, Inc., in conjunction with the BVTA, is working with community residents and entrepreneurs to link them with employment opportunities at the site, and to encourage wider use of traditional banking facilities.</p>\n<p>SLHA selected MBS through a competitive RFQ process. The developer has deep local experience working with SLHA; its developments include the redevelopment of Vaughn public housing as the Murphy Park mixed income community, and the transformation of Blumeyer public housing as the new Renaissance Place at Grand mixed income community. The firm also specializes in urban commercial and mixed-use developments, including the 6 North development near St. Louis University, the Big Brothers Big Sisters / Woolworth Building at Grand Center, and The Westin/Cupples Station project next to Busch Stadium. The combination of this experience, together with the firm&rsquo;s commitment of New Markets Tax Credits to support the project, was instrumental in bringing the final pieces together.</p>\n<p>\\\"Through the use of New Market Credits, McCormack Baron Salazar was able to support the Authority&rsquo;s goal, leverage private equity to close the gap in funding, and realize the commitment made to the residents and the Housing Authority. 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He also received a bachelor\\\'s degree from Saint Louis University and a master\\\'s degree from the University of Denver. <br /><br />&ldquo;John was a beloved leader whose legacy will continue to guide and inspire us,&rdquo; says HOK Vice Chairman Clark Davis. &ldquo;He had a profound positive influence on our people, our values and our collaborative culture.&rdquo; <br /><br />Mahon is survived by his wife of 31 years: Victoria Mahon and three children: John F. Mahon, Jr., Emily Singleton Mahon and Michael Patrick Mahon, all of St. Louis. <br /><br />Donors interested in contributing to the John F. Mahon Sr. Scholarship Fund can send a check payable to St. Louis University High School, Attn: Advancement Office, 4970 Oakland Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63110. Please specify &ldquo;The John F. Mahon Sr. Scholarship Fund&rdquo; on the memo line. 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DeWitt said&nbsp; that the Cardinals plan to sell TIF bonds for the project in March, \\\"...if some semblance of order comes to the market.\\\" <br /><br />DeWitt said that the project has been reconfigured to&nbsp; push residential development into Phase II in recognition of current residential market realities. The Cardinals have lease commitments in place on 80 percent of the office/commercial space in Phase I, contingent on the sales of the TIF bonds, he said.<br /><br />DeWitt countered criticism of tax break given to the Cardinals. Despite the City\\\'s elimination of the admission tax, revenues to the City have increased from $6 million to $10 million a year since the new stadium opened, DeWitt said. <br /><br />St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay focused on the gains that Downtown St. Louis has made in recent years. \\\"Eight years ago Downtown St. Louis was a place where businesses were leaving,\\\" he said. <br /><br />\\\"We now have a vibrant Downtown, where people are living. If Downtown is doing better it\\\'s going to help the entire region.\\\"<br /><br />Slay noted the effort to create a Downtown streetscape, most notably the Gateway Mall sculpture garden project. Slay said that he had originally approached the Gateway Foundation for $350,000 for planning for the mall and ended up getting $30 million to fund the sculpture garden. <br /><br />He said that he is encouraged by the National Park Service\\\'s decision to consider plans that would develop some of the Arch grounds with amenities. &nbsp;<br /><br />\\\"What the Arch grounds do (now) is disconnect us from our riverfront. You can buy plum butter or beef jerky there, but you can\\\'t buy a hamburger.\\\" <br /><br />Slay said that while the demise of John Steffen\\\'s Pyramid Companies was unfortunate, Pyramid had left the properties poised to be redeveloped. \\\"Pyramid advanced the rehab-ability of the properties, \\\" Slay stated. \\\"Every one of the properties are now in the hands of people who want to get things done.\\\" <br /><br />Howard Wall, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis addressed employment and housing issues related to the St. Louis MSA. Wall said that the St. Louis area is tracking along with the U.S. economy in terms of jobs lost. St. Louis\\\' only area of job growth Q3 of 2007 to Q3 of 2008 has been health care and education, Wall said. <br />He said that the Fed is expecting a continued slowdown all business sectors. 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Theresa the plumber, Yvette the electrician, and Beth the carpenter say you don\\\'t represent the nation or the middle class and you most definitely don\\\'t speak for them.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"9\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:38:\"MOWIT, Joe the plumber, Theresa Hughes\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:2285:\"<p>Joe the plumber, move over. Theresa the plumber, Yvette the electrician, and Beth the carpenter say you don&rsquo;t represent the nation or the middle class and you most definitely don&rsquo;t speak for them.<br />&nbsp;<br />Theresa Hughes, Yvette Goods, and Beth Barton said Joe&rsquo;s turn has gone on long enough. Now they want the candidates to address their concerns. All three women said access to reliable child care is essential for letting women pursue good paying jobs. All three women pointed to the growing specter of unemployment as a critical issue. &ldquo;My husband has been laid-off for months. I&rsquo;m working at [a project at] St. John&rsquo;s, but I&rsquo;ll probably be laid-off soon,&rdquo; Barton said. A member of Carpenters&rsquo; Local 1596, Barton works for McCarthy Building Companies.<br />&nbsp;<br /><img alt=\\\"MOWIT press conference\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"194\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/departments/MOWIT-press-conference.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<h4>Women construction workers said Joe the plumber doesn&rsquo;t speak for\nthem. From left to right: Yvette Goods, Theresa Hughes, Beth Barton.</h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Hughes, the plumber, is a member of Plumbers&rsquo; and Pipefitters&rsquo; Local 562. Plumbing is her second career. She worked in the printing industry for 20 years until the print shop that employed her went out of business and only then joined the plumbers&rsquo; apprenticeship program.<br />&nbsp;<br />Goods, the electrician, is a member if IBEW Local 1 and has been for 25 years. Goods suggested some steps she would like to see any future administration take to reduce unemployment and poverty. &ldquo;People need secure incomes, not minimum wage,&rdquo; she said, and the government needs to put people back to work repairing the nation&rsquo;s &ldquo;neglected infrastructure&rdquo; to make it safe and functional.<br />&nbsp;<br />The three women spoke at a press conference organized by Missouri Women in the Trades, a support group for women construction workers that also works to recruit more women into construction. Since its founding in 2006, the group has worked with the Girl Scouts and held a summer camp to encourage girls to think of careers in construction.</p>\n<h4><br /></h4>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:37:\"/images/uploads/departments/mowit.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";}'),(774,296,2,2,1225064695,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"296\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-25 07:31 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"stadium_still_in_the_cards_area_work_dicey\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:245:\"There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a  program on Downtown Development  Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club.\n\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:33:\"DeWitt, Slay, Downtown, Cardinals\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3211:\"<p>There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a&nbsp; program on Downtown Development&nbsp; Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club. <br /><img alt=\\\"DeWitt and Slay\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/dewitt-and-slay.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<h4>Cardinals President Bill Dewitt III and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay at The St Louis Council of Construction Consumers Presentation on Downtown&nbsp; St. Louis Update on Oct. 23<br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Bill DeWitt III, Cardinals president,&nbsp; said that the Cardinals still hope to see construction underway in the Spring of 2009 on Ballpark Village. DeWitt said&nbsp; that the Cardinals plan to sell TIF bonds for the project in March, \\\"...if some semblance of order comes to the market.\\\" <br /><br />DeWitt said that the project has been reconfigured to&nbsp; push residential development into Phase II in recognition of current residential market realities. The Cardinals have lease commitments in place on 80 percent of the office/commercial space in Phase I, contingent on the sales of the TIF bonds, he said.<br /><br />DeWitt countered criticism of tax break given to the Cardinals. Despite the City\\\'s elimination of the admission tax, revenues to the City have increased from $6 million to $10 million a year since the new stadium opened, DeWitt said. <br /><br />St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay focused on the gains that Downtown St. Louis has made in recent years. \\\"Eight years ago Downtown St. Louis was a place where businesses were leaving,\\\" he said. <br /><br />\\\"We now have a vibrant Downtown, where people are living. If Downtown is doing better it\\\'s going to help the entire region.\\\"<br /><br />Slay noted the effort to create a Downtown streetscape, most notably the Gateway Mall sculpture garden project. Slay said that he had originally approached the Gateway Foundation for $350,000 for planning for the mall and ended up getting $30 million to fund the sculpture garden. <br /><br />He said that he is encouraged by the National Park Service\\\'s decision to consider plans that would develop some of the Arch grounds with amenities. &nbsp;<br /><br />\\\"What the Arch grounds do (now) is disconnect us from our riverfront. You can buy plum butter or beef jerky there, but you can\\\'t buy a hamburger.\\\" <br /><br />Slay said that while the demise of John Steffen\\\'s Pyramid Companies was unfortunate, Pyramid had left the properties poised to be redeveloped. \\\"Pyramid advanced the rehab-ability of the properties, \\\" Slay stated. \\\"Every one of the properties are now in the hands of people who want to get things done.\\\"</p>\n<p>Howard Wall, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis addressed employment and housing issues related to the St. Louis MSA. Wall said that the St. Louis area is tracking along with the U.S. economy in terms of jobs lost. St. Louis\\\' only area of job growth Q3 of 2007 to Q3 of 2008 has been health care and education, Wall said. 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Announces Winners in  St. Francis de Sales Architectural Competition \";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:128:\"A team of six graduate architecture students has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts\\\' Community Service Competition.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:64:\"St. Francis de Sales, Washington University, design  competition\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:4641:\"<p>A team of six graduate architecture students has won the Sam Fox\nSchool of Design &amp; Visual Arts\\\' Community Service Competition. The\nteam, led by Ellen Leuenberger, and includes Denny Burke, Alexander\nHarner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim.<br /><br />The\ncompetition, which includes a $300 cash prize, centered on an abandoned\n8,000-square-foot children\\\'s theater located on the campus of St.\nFrancis de Sales in South St. Louis. Popularly known as \\\"the Cathedral\nof South St. Louis,\\\" St. Francis de Sales has been a local landmark\nsince the end of the Civil War.&nbsp; Its six-building campus is listed on\nthe National Registry of Historic Places and includes the elegant\nGothic revival church as well as a rectory, a former convent, a\ngymnasium and two former school buildings, one of which houses the\ntheater. <br /><br />\\\"The agenda for this project is to create a schematic\ndesign proposal that can be used by St. Francis de Sales as both a\nfundraising tool and as a basis for construction documents,\\\" said Eric\nCesal, a graduate student in architecture, who organized the\ncompetition with classmate Ali Lang.&nbsp; \\\"The theater is located in a\nwell-preserved 19th century building.&nbsp; The historical quality of the\nspace, as well as its state of preservation and the enthusiasm of the\ncommunity, offers an opportunity to create something really special.\\\"</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Saint Francis de Sales\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"397\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/saint-francis-de-sales.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Jon\nR. Roche, office administrator for the church, explains that the\ntheater is located on the third floor of an 1888 structure that once\nhoused the former parish girls\\\' school.&nbsp; In the 1920s the theater\nserved as home to the Benton Park Drama Club but in the 1940s was\nsubdivided into classrooms, the two-story stage split horizontally by\ndropped-in ceilings. The original two-story children\\\'s theater was\nsplit by dropped-in ceilings, creating classroom space and the above\nattic.<br />\\\"When you go into the attic you can still see the intricate\nhandwork,\\\" explains Roche, whose grandfather graduated from St. Francis\nde Sales High School.&nbsp; \\\"It\\\'s a very beautiful space.&nbsp; At some point it\nwill be restored, and would certainly be great if we could use one of\nthe students\\\' designs.\\\" <br /><br />The competition began August 23 as a\none-day charrette (a sort of architectural brainstorming session).&nbsp;\nAfter a brief history and tour of the site, 55 students spent five\nhours developing initial concepts, which were then presented to the\ncompetition jury.&nbsp; The jury short-listed four teams, with the fifth\nteam (originally an alternate) added in mid-September.&nbsp; Over the next\neight weeks, each team expanded its ideas into workable schematic\ndesigns, detailed on a pair of 24\\\" x 36\\\" presentation boards. <br /><br />The\ncompetition culminated Oct. 17 in a series of presentations to St.\nFrancis de Sales faithful, local architects and interested community\nmembers.&nbsp; A competition jury comprised of faculty, local architects and\nchurch leaders then convened for final judging.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The winning design, which focused on the theater\\\'s entry sequence,\nwould create a large exterior courtyard filled with organic gardens and\nmeeting areas.&nbsp; Pathways would direct worshippers to the church and\ntheater-goers to a pair of reconfigured staircases rising up to the\nrenovated proscenium.&nbsp; The theater itself would be designed for maximum\nflexibility, with non-fixed seating and large windows creating a visual\nand implied connection back to the church and the greater community. <br /><br />\\\"We\nthought that the design proposals were all of very high architectural\ndesign quality,\\\" noted jury chair Paul J. Donnelly, the Rebecca &amp;\nJohn Voyles Professor of Architecture.&nbsp; \\\"The jury ultimately decided\nthat the winning entry should be the one that most directly addresses\nthe church\\\'s needs associated with their immediate and long planning\nefforts.\\\" <br /><br />Bruce Lindsey, dean of the Sam Fox School\\\'s College\nof Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture &amp; Urban Design,\nadded that, \\\"the City of St. Louis has an extremely rich architectural\nheritage, one that still has much to teach us.\\\" <br />\\\"As a society, I\nthink we sometimes forget how much architecture matters - how its\nexpressive and spiritual aspects can inspire us, connect us and enhance\npeople\\\'s lives,\\\" Lindsey continued.&nbsp; \\\"As architects, I think we have a\nresponsibility to help build communities as well as buildings.\\\"</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(776,297,4,2,1225086861,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"297\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-26 07:50 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:76:\"Wash U. Announces Winners in  St. Francis de Sales Architectural Competition\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:73:\"wash_u_announces_winners_in_st_francis_de_sales_architectural_competition\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:77:\"Wash U. Announces Winners in  St. Francis de Sales Architectural Competition \";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:128:\"A team of six graduate architecture students has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts\\\' Community Service Competition.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:64:\"St. Francis de Sales, Washington University, design  competition\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:4642:\"<p>A team of six graduate architecture students has won the Sam Fox\nSchool of Design &amp; Visual Arts\\\' Community Service Competition. The\nteam, led by Ellen Leuenberger, and includes Denny Burke, Alexander\nHarner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim.<br /><br />The\ncompetition, which includes a $300 cash prize, centered on an abandoned\n8,000-square-foot children\\\'s theater located on the campus of St.\nFrancis de Sales in South St. Louis. Popularly known as \\\"the Cathedral\nof South St. Louis,\\\" St. Francis de Sales has been a local landmark\nsince the end of the Civil War.&nbsp; Its six-building campus is listed on\nthe National Registry of Historic Places and includes the elegant\nGothic revival church as well as a rectory, a former convent, a\ngymnasium and two former school buildings, one of which houses the\ntheater. <br /><br />\\\"The agenda for this project is to create a schematic\ndesign proposal that can be used by St. Francis de Sales as both a\nfundraising tool and as a basis for construction documents,\\\" said Eric\nCesal, a graduate student in architecture, who organized the\ncompetition with classmate Ali Lang.&nbsp; \\\"The theater is located in a\nwell-preserved 19th century building.&nbsp; The historical quality of the\nspace, as well as its state of preservation and the enthusiasm of the\ncommunity, offers an opportunity to create something really special.\\\"</p>\n<p><img alt=\\\"Saint Francis de Sales\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"397\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/saint-francis-de-sales.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />Jon\nR. Roche, office administrator for the church, explains that the\ntheater is located on the third floor of an 1888 structure that once\nhoused the former parish girls\\\' school.&nbsp; In the 1920s the theater\nserved as home to the Benton Park Drama Club but in the 1940s was\nsubdivided into classrooms, the two-story stage split horizontally by\ndropped-in ceilings. The original two-story children\\\'s theater was\nsplit by dropped-in ceilings, creating classroom space and the above\nattic.<br />\\\"When you go into the attic you can still see the intricate\nhandwork,\\\" explains Roche, whose grandfather graduated from St. Francis\nde Sales High School.&nbsp; \\\"It\\\'s a very beautiful space.&nbsp; At some point it\nwill be restored, and would certainly be great if we could use one of\nthe students\\\' designs.\\\" <br /><br />The competition began August 23 as a\none-day charrette (a sort of architectural brainstorming session).&nbsp;\nAfter a brief history and tour of the site, 55 students spent five\nhours developing initial concepts, which were then presented to the\ncompetition jury.&nbsp; The jury short-listed four teams, with the fifth\nteam (originally an alternate) added in mid-September.&nbsp; Over the next\neight weeks, each team expanded its ideas into workable schematic\ndesigns, detailed on a pair of 24\\\" x 36\\\" presentation boards. <br /><br />The\ncompetition culminated Oct. 17 in a series of presentations to St.\nFrancis de Sales faithful, local architects and interested community\nmembers.&nbsp; A competition jury comprised of faculty, local architects and\nchurch leaders then convened for final judging.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The winning design, which focused on the theater\\\'s entry sequence,\nwould create a large exterior courtyard filled with organic gardens and\nmeeting areas.&nbsp; Pathways would direct worshippers to the church and\ntheater-goers to a pair of reconfigured staircases rising up to the\nrenovated proscenium.&nbsp; The theater itself would be designed for maximum\nflexibility, with non-fixed seating and large windows creating a visual\nand implied connection back to the church and the greater community. <br /><br />\\\"We\nthought that the design proposals were all of very high architectural\ndesign quality,\\\" noted jury chair Paul J. Donnelly, the Rebecca &amp;\nJohn Voyles Professor of Architecture.&nbsp; \\\"The jury ultimately decided\nthat the winning entry should be the one that most directly addresses\nthe church\\\'s needs associated with their immediate and long planning\nefforts.\\\" <br /><br />Bruce Lindsey, dean of the Sam Fox School\\\'s College\nof Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture &amp; Urban Design,\nadded that, \\\"the City of St. Louis has an extremely rich architectural\nheritage, one that still has much to teach us.\\\"</p>\n<p>\\\"As a society, I\nthink we sometimes forget how much architecture matters - how its\nexpressive and spiritual aspects can inspire us, connect us and enhance\npeople\\\'s lives,\\\" Lindsey continued.&nbsp; \\\"As architects, I think we have a\nresponsibility to help build communities as well as buildings.\\\"</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(777,298,4,2,1225173466,'a:25:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-27 07:40 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"U.S. DOT  Funds Missouri, Illinois Emergency Projects\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:49:\"us_dot_funds_missouri_illinois_emergency_projects\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:53:\"U.S. DOT  Funds Missouri, Illinois Emergency Projects\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:252:\"Missouri will receive a total of $5,769,422 in U.S. DOT flood relief funds and $1,249,308 to repair the Jefferson Ave.Bridge in Jefferson City, which was heavily damaged by a tanker truck wreck . Illinois will receive $13,900,995 in flood relief funds.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:20:\"emergency funds, DOT\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2254:\"<p>Missouri will receive a total of $5,769,422 in U.S. DOT flood relief funds and $1,249,308 to repair the Jefferson Ave.Bridge in Jefferson City, which was heavily damaged by a tanker truck wreck . Illinois will receive $13,900,995 in flood relief funds.</p>\n<p>The funding for the two states is part of $679 million&nbsp; the federal government is making available immediately \nto states across the nation to cover costs incurred to repair roads and bridges \ndamaged by a variety of natural emergencies and catastrophic events, U.S. \nSecretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced Oct. 26 during a visit to \nGalveston, TX.</p>\n<p><br /> \\\"When natural disasters strike, restoring transportation is the first stop on \nthe road to recovery,\\\" Secretary Peters said. <br /> <br /> Texas will receive $96 million for storm and flooding repairs, including $70 \nmillion for the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Ike in Galveston and along \nthe Texas Gulf Coast. In addition, the state will receive $26 million for \ndamages from Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Dolly earlier this year, as \nwell as the heavy rains that flooded El Paso roads in 2006 and other Texas \nhighways in 2007. <br /></p>\n<p>\\\"Communities like Galveston should be able to look to the federal government as \na gateway to assistance, not a roadblock of red tape. Our goal is to get \ncommunities moving again,\\\" said Secretary Peters.<br /> Nationwide, the emergency relief funds will go to 28 states and Puerto Rico to \npay for damages caused by storms, flooding, hurricanes, and other disasters, \nincluding the summer 2008 Midwestern floods and recent major hurricanes. The \nfunds will be used to reimburse states for fixing or replacing damaged highways \nand bridges, establishing detours, removing debris and replacing signs, lighting \nand guardrails. <br /> <br /> \\\"Transportation is important to communities struggling to return to a normal \nroutine after a disaster,\\\" said FHWA Administrator Thomas Madison. <br /> <br /> The funds are part of the 2008 Disaster Relief and Recovery Supplemental \nAppropriations Act that provided additional emergency relief funds. Congress \nalso provides an annual authorization of $100 million for the program each \nfiscal year.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(778,298,4,2,1225173656,'a:26:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"4\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"298\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-27 07:40 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:1:\"4\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"4\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:53:\"U.S. DOT  Funds Missouri, Illinois Emergency Projects\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:49:\"us_dot_funds_missouri_illinois_emergency_projects\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:11:\"field_id_26\";s:53:\"U.S. DOT  Funds Missouri, Illinois Emergency Projects\";s:11:\"field_ft_26\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_31\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_id_44\";s:265:\"Missouri will receive a total of $5,769,422 in U.S. DOT flood relief funds and $1,249,308 to repair the Jefferson Ave.Bridge in Jefferson City, which was heavily damaged in late 2007 by a tanker truck wreck . Illinois will receive $13,900,995 in flood relief funds.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:20:\"emergency funds, DOT\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:2260:\"<p>Missouri will receive a total of $5,769,422 in U.S. DOT flood relief funds and $1,249,308 to repair the Jefferson Ave.Bridge in Jefferson City, which was heavily damaged in late 2007 by a tanker truck wreck . Illinois will receive $13,900,995 in flood relief funds.</p>\n<p>The funding for the two states is part of $679 million&nbsp; the federal government is making available immediately \nto states across the nation to cover costs incurred to repair roads and bridges \ndamaged by a variety of natural emergencies and catastrophic events, U.S. \nSecretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced Oct. 26 during a visit to \nGalveston, TX.</p>\n<p><br /> \\\"When natural disasters strike, restoring transportation is the first stop on \nthe road to recovery,\\\" Secretary Peters said. <br /> <br /> Texas will receive $96 million for storm and flooding repairs, including $70 \nmillion for the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Ike in Galveston and along \nthe Texas Gulf Coast. In addition, the state will receive $26 million for \ndamages from Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Dolly earlier this year, as \nwell as the heavy rains that flooded El Paso roads in 2006 and other Texas \nhighways in 2007.</p>\n<p>\\\"Communities like Galveston should be able to look to the federal government as \na gateway to assistance, not a roadblock of red tape. Our goal is to get \ncommunities moving again,\\\" said Secretary Peters.<br /> Nationwide, the emergency relief funds will go to 28 states and Puerto Rico to \npay for damages caused by storms, flooding, hurricanes, and other disasters, \nincluding the summer 2008 Midwestern floods and recent major hurricanes. The \nfunds will be used to reimburse states for fixing or replacing damaged highways \nand bridges, establishing detours, removing debris and replacing signs, lighting \nand guardrails. <br /> <br /> \\\"Transportation is important to communities struggling to return to a normal \nroutine after a disaster,\\\" said FHWA Administrator Thomas Madison. <br /> <br /> The funds are part of the 2008 Disaster Relief and Recovery Supplemental \nAppropriations Act that provided additional emergency relief funds. Congress \nalso provides an annual authorization of $100 million for the program each \nfiscal year.</p>\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:1:\"4\";}'),(779,296,2,2,1225260710,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"296\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-25 07:31 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"stadium_still_in_the_cards_area_work_dicey\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:245:\"There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a  program on Downtown Development  Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club.\n\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:33:\"DeWitt, Slay, Downtown, Cardinals\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3211:\"<p>There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a&nbsp; program on Downtown Development&nbsp; Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club. <br /><img alt=\\\"DeWitt and Slay\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/dewitt-and-slay.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<h4>Cardinals President Bill Dewitt III and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay at The St Louis Council of Construction Consumers Presentation on Downtown&nbsp; St. Louis Update on Oct. 23<br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Bill DeWitt III, Cardinals president,&nbsp; said that the Cardinals still hope to see construction underway in the Spring of 2009 on Ballpark Village. DeWitt said&nbsp; that the Cardinals plan to sell TIF bonds for the project in March, \\\"...if some semblance of order comes to the market.\\\" <br /><br />DeWitt said that the project has been reconfigured to&nbsp; push residential development into Phase II in recognition of current residential market realities. The Cardinals have lease commitments in place on 80 percent of the office/commercial space in Phase I, contingent on the sales of the TIF bonds, he said.<br /><br />DeWitt countered criticism of tax break given to the Cardinals. Despite the City\\\'s elimination of the admission tax, revenues to the City have increased from $6 million to $10 million a year since the new stadium opened, DeWitt said. <br /><br />St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay focused on the gains that Downtown St. Louis has made in recent years. \\\"Eight years ago Downtown St. Louis was a place where businesses were leaving,\\\" he said. <br /><br />\\\"We now have a vibrant Downtown, where people are living. If Downtown is doing better it\\\'s going to help the entire region.\\\"<br /><br />Slay noted the effort to create a Downtown streetscape, most notably the Gateway Mall sculpture garden project. Slay said that he had originally approached the Gateway Foundation for $350,000 for planning for the mall and ended up getting $30 million to fund the sculpture garden. <br /><br />He said that he is encouraged by the National Park Service\\\'s decision to consider plans that would develop some of the Arch grounds with amenities. &nbsp;<br /><br />\\\"What the Arch grounds do (now) is disconnect us from our riverfront. You can buy plum butter or beef jerky there, but you can\\\'t buy a hamburger.\\\" <br /><br />Slay said that while the demise of John Steffen\\\'s Pyramid Companies was unfortunate, Pyramid had left the properties poised to be redeveloped. \\\"Pyramid advanced the rehab-ability of the properties, \\\" Slay stated. \\\"Every one of the properties are now in the hands of people who want to get things done.\\\"</p>\n<p>Howard Wall, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis addressed employment and housing issues related to the St. Louis MSA. Wall said that the St. Louis area is tracking along with the U.S. economy in terms of jobs lost. St. Louis\\\' only area of job growth Q3 of 2007 to Q3 of 2008 has been health care and education, Wall said. He said that the Fed is expecting a continued slowdown all business sectors.&nbsp;</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:35:\"/images/uploads/dewitt-and-slay.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(780,299,2,2,1225262229,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:0:\"\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:0:\"\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-28 08:12 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"15\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:52:\"Student Charette on Arch Grounds, Riverfront Planned\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:51:\"student_charette_on_arch_grounds_riverfront_planned\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Submit\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:52:\"Student Charette on Arch Grounds, Riverfront Planned\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:255:\"Forty-eight students of various design and construction disciplines from five Midwestern universities will be gathering at the Mansion House complex in downtown St. Louis  Nov. 6 - 9 to participate in a unique Downtown/Riverfront Student Design Charrette.\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:0:\"\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:37:\"Arch, charette, riverfront, St. Louis\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:7516:\"<p>Forty-eight students of various design and construction disciplines from five Midwestern universities will be gathering at the Mansion House complex in downtown St. Louis&nbsp; Nov. 6 - 9 to participate in a unique Downtown/Riverfront Student Design Charrette. The collaborative initiative is aimed at exploring new possibilities for improving the functioning, connections and vitality of the area of downtown St. Louis anchored by the central riverfront, Gateway Arch and arch grounds, Memorial Drive and sections of Interstate 70. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Arch\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/arch.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />The event will be held in a currently unoccupied three-story commercial space that is part of the Mansion House complex at 300 North Fourth Street, directly across from the Arch grounds. \\\"The venue, which is being donated for this initiative, is ideal as its east facing windows provide expansive, unobstructed views of the Arch grounds. The venue overlooks the network of roads that currently serves as a barrier between those grounds and the rest of downtown,\\\" said Michelle Swatek, Executive Director of the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). <br /><br />AIA St. Louis and the Transportation Engineering Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (TEAMS) are the lead organizers for the charrette, and participants include the schools of art &amp; architecture from Washington University, Drury University and the University of Illinois-Urbana; the Department of Civil Engineering at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo. <br /><br />The participating students of transportation engineering, art, landscape and architecture from these schools have spent the past several weeks reviewing advance information about the study area, compiled by Patricia Heyda, Architecture faculty member at Washington University. They will convene in St. Louis on Nov. 6, at which time they will be assigned to one of seven teams. The project gets underway that evening at Washington University with a keynote address by Alex Krieger, professor of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. On Friday, Nov. 7, the teams will gain additional perspective about the area and this project through various speakers, a host of presentations and panel discussions at Mansion House, while also touring the project site. They will then engage in an intense design planning period from 8 a.m. Saturday until 1 a.m. on Sunday, and again on Sunday morning from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. <br /><br />The charrette will conclude Sunday afternoon with a final open-to-the-public session from noon until 4 p.m., during which students will present the various design concepts that emerge as a result of the process. <br /><br />Fred Powers, principal with Powers Bowersox Associates and a past president of AIA St. Louis Chapter, initiated the project and is serving as the charrette coordinator. \\\"The collaborative nature of the charrette technique and the intensity involved should yield some imaginative suggestions,\\\" he notes. \\\"I also think the charrette represents a unique learning experience for multidisciplinary students and universities to collaborate and engage in current and important civic issues for our region. Getting the input of young people makes sense as the decisions being made today will impact their generation, much as the original plans for the Arch grounds conceived decades ago have impacted so many since then.\\\" <br /><br />The overall goal of the charrette is to create design concepts that will enhance the riverfront and arch grounds, better encompass downtown and transform the area into a world-class destination for visitors and area residents. The specific design objectives for the charrette are:</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> To preserve and protect the Gateway Arch as one of the world\\\'s greatest monuments. </li>\n<li> To view the Riverfront, the Arch grounds and the area extending west across Memorial Drive as one integrated project area. </li>\n<li> To maximize the use and impact of St. Louis\\\' two greatest physical assets - the Gateway Arch and the Mississippi River - for the long-term benefit and enjoyment of the area residents and tourists. </li>\n<li> To incorporate attractions and amenities that will make the area a year round activity center. </li>\n<li> To maximize pedestrian connections to, and within, the overall site. </li>\n</ul>\n<p><br />Organizers realize the project will be a challenging one for the students. \\\"There have been many attempts over the past several years to beautify and connect the Gateway Arch and Riverfront areas. There are many complex engineering issues due to the close proximity of several downtown roadways, including the convergence of several major interstates, that traverses through the study area. Finding a delicate balance for all will be challenging,\\\" notes Michael Trueblood, president of TEAMS. \\\"The complex engineering issues range from pedestrian-vehicle issues to retaining walls and drainage issues to significant infrastructure requirements such as tunneling and bridging. Developing a concept that transcends all of these issues can be done, but it will take cooperation from a number of disciplines.\\\"<br /><br />Other area experts who will be lending their time to this initiative and providing background information as speakers on Friday morning include: Robert Moore, arch grounds historian; Don Roe, Acting Planning Director, City of St. Louis; Gregory Horn of the Missouri Department of Transportation; Jasen Brown of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Harry Richman, AIA Emeritus, who will share with the students his stories about opening the Arch competition drawing submittals, which ultimately led to the 1947 selection of the design by Eero Saarinen, then a student of architecture at Washington University. &nbsp;<br /><br />Friday evening\\\'s panel lineup includes: Eric Mumford, Associate Professor, College of Architecture/Graduate School of Architecture &amp; Urban Design at Washington University; Peter Sortino, Director, Danforth Foundation; Tom Bradley, Superintendent of the Arch grounds, and George Nikolajevich, FAIA, principal with Cannon Design. <br /><br />\\\"This experience will bring together artists, engineers and architects in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative ideas around an iconic yet dynamic part of the city of Saint Louis,\\\" notes Bruce Lindsey, AIA, <br />Dean of the College of Architecture at Washington University. \\\"The students\\\' ideas will contribute to the on-going dialogue about this important part of the city and contribute towards their development as future professionals and citizens. Students are a renewable energy source.\\\" <br /><br />The charrette is being made possible thanks to the generous support of the Washington University School of Architecture; AIA St. Louis Chapter\\\'s Scholarship Committee; the Gertrude and William A Bernoundy Foundation; Peckham, Guyton, Albers, and Viets, Inc.; Cannon Design, HDR, Jacobs, Mackey Mitchell Associates; Powers Bowersox Associates; TEAMS and Value St. Louis Associates, owner of the Mansion House, which is providing the space at no charge. <br /><br />To learn more about the upcoming Downtown/Riverfront Student Design Charrette, contact Michelle Swatek at the AIA St. Louis Chapter, 314-621-3484. <br />.</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/arch.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"15\";}'),(781,296,2,2,1225262251,'a:29:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"296\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-25 07:31 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:1:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"stadium_still_in_the_cards_area_work_dicey\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:245:\"There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a  program on Downtown Development  Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club.\n\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:33:\"DeWitt, Slay, Downtown, Cardinals\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3211:\"<p>There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a&nbsp; program on Downtown Development&nbsp; Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club. <br /><img alt=\\\"DeWitt and Slay\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/dewitt-and-slay.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<h4>Cardinals President Bill Dewitt III and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay at The St Louis Council of Construction Consumers Presentation on Downtown&nbsp; St. Louis Update on Oct. 23<br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Bill DeWitt III, Cardinals president,&nbsp; said that the Cardinals still hope to see construction underway in the Spring of 2009 on Ballpark Village. DeWitt said&nbsp; that the Cardinals plan to sell TIF bonds for the project in March, \\\"...if some semblance of order comes to the market.\\\" <br /><br />DeWitt said that the project has been reconfigured to&nbsp; push residential development into Phase II in recognition of current residential market realities. The Cardinals have lease commitments in place on 80 percent of the office/commercial space in Phase I, contingent on the sales of the TIF bonds, he said.<br /><br />DeWitt countered criticism of tax break given to the Cardinals. Despite the City\\\'s elimination of the admission tax, revenues to the City have increased from $6 million to $10 million a year since the new stadium opened, DeWitt said. <br /><br />St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay focused on the gains that Downtown St. Louis has made in recent years. \\\"Eight years ago Downtown St. Louis was a place where businesses were leaving,\\\" he said. <br /><br />\\\"We now have a vibrant Downtown, where people are living. If Downtown is doing better it\\\'s going to help the entire region.\\\"<br /><br />Slay noted the effort to create a Downtown streetscape, most notably the Gateway Mall sculpture garden project. Slay said that he had originally approached the Gateway Foundation for $350,000 for planning for the mall and ended up getting $30 million to fund the sculpture garden. <br /><br />He said that he is encouraged by the National Park Service\\\'s decision to consider plans that would develop some of the Arch grounds with amenities. &nbsp;<br /><br />\\\"What the Arch grounds do (now) is disconnect us from our riverfront. You can buy plum butter or beef jerky there, but you can\\\'t buy a hamburger.\\\" <br /><br />Slay said that while the demise of John Steffen\\\'s Pyramid Companies was unfortunate, Pyramid had left the properties poised to be redeveloped. \\\"Pyramid advanced the rehab-ability of the properties, \\\" Slay stated. \\\"Every one of the properties are now in the hands of people who want to get things done.\\\"</p>\n<p>Howard Wall, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis addressed employment and housing issues related to the St. Louis MSA. Wall said that the St. Louis area is tracking along with the U.S. economy in terms of jobs lost. St. Louis\\\' only area of job growth Q3 of 2007 to Q3 of 2008 has been health care and education, Wall said. 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The collaborative initiative is aimed at exploring new possibilities for improving the functioning, connections and vitality of the area of downtown St. Louis anchored by the central riverfront, Gateway Arch and arch grounds, Memorial Drive and sections of Interstate 70. <br /><br /><img alt=\\\"Arch\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/arch.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" />The event will be held in a currently unoccupied three-story commercial space that is part of the Mansion House complex at 300 North Fourth Street, directly across from the Arch grounds. \\\"The venue, which is being donated for this initiative, is ideal as its east facing windows provide expansive, unobstructed views of the Arch grounds. The venue overlooks the network of roads that currently serves as a barrier between those grounds and the rest of downtown,\\\" said Michelle Swatek, Executive Director of the St. Louis Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). <br /><br />AIA St. Louis and the Transportation Engineering Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (TEAMS) are the lead organizers for the charrette, and participants include the schools of art &amp; architecture from Washington University, Drury University and the University of Illinois-Urbana; the Department of Civil Engineering at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo. <br /><br />The participating students of transportation engineering, art, landscape and architecture from these schools have spent the past several weeks reviewing advance information about the study area, compiled by Patricia Heyda, Architecture faculty member at Washington University. They will convene in St. Louis on Nov. 6, at which time they will be assigned to one of seven teams. The project gets underway that evening at Washington University with a keynote address by Alex Krieger, professor of Urban Planning and Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. On Friday, Nov. 7, the teams will gain additional perspective about the area and this project through various speakers, a host of presentations and panel discussions at Mansion House, while also touring the project site. They will then engage in an intense design planning period from 8 a.m. Saturday until 1 a.m. on Sunday, and again on Sunday morning from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. <br /><br />The charrette will conclude Sunday afternoon with a final open-to-the-public session from noon until 4 p.m., during which students will present the various design concepts that emerge as a result of the process. <br /><br />Fred Powers, principal with Powers Bowersox Associates and a past president of AIA St. Louis Chapter, initiated the project and is serving as the charrette coordinator. \\\"The collaborative nature of the charrette technique and the intensity involved should yield some imaginative suggestions,\\\" he notes. \\\"I also think the charrette represents a unique learning experience for multidisciplinary students and universities to collaborate and engage in current and important civic issues for our region. Getting the input of young people makes sense as the decisions being made today will impact their generation, much as the original plans for the Arch grounds conceived decades ago have impacted so many since then.\\\" <br /><br />The overall goal of the charrette is to create design concepts that will enhance the riverfront and arch grounds, better encompass downtown and transform the area into a world-class destination for visitors and area residents. The specific design objectives for the charrette are:</p>\n<ul class=\\\"unIndentedList\\\">\n<li> To preserve and protect the Gateway Arch as one of the world\\\'s greatest monuments. </li>\n<li> To view the Riverfront, the Arch grounds and the area extending west across Memorial Drive as one integrated project area. </li>\n<li> To maximize the use and impact of St. Louis\\\' two greatest physical assets - the Gateway Arch and the Mississippi River - for the long-term benefit and enjoyment of the area residents and tourists. </li>\n<li> To incorporate attractions and amenities that will make the area a year round activity center. </li>\n<li> To maximize pedestrian connections to, and within, the overall site. </li>\n</ul>\n<p><br />Organizers realize the project will be a challenging one for the students. \\\"There have been many attempts over the past several years to beautify and connect the Gateway Arch and Riverfront areas. There are many complex engineering issues due to the close proximity of several downtown roadways, including the convergence of several major interstates, that traverses through the study area. Finding a delicate balance for all will be challenging,\\\" notes Michael Trueblood, president of TEAMS. \\\"The complex engineering issues range from pedestrian-vehicle issues to retaining walls and drainage issues to significant infrastructure requirements such as tunneling and bridging. Developing a concept that transcends all of these issues can be done, but it will take cooperation from a number of disciplines.\\\"<br /><br />Other area experts who will be lending their time to this initiative and providing background information as speakers on Friday morning include: Robert Moore, arch grounds historian; Don Roe, Acting Planning Director, City of St. Louis; Gregory Horn of the Missouri Department of Transportation; Jasen Brown of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Harry Richman, AIA Emeritus, who will share with the students his stories about opening the Arch competition drawing submittals, which ultimately led to the 1947 selection of the design by Eero Saarinen, then a student of architecture at Washington University. &nbsp;<br /><br />Friday evening\\\'s panel lineup includes: Eric Mumford, Associate Professor, College of Architecture/Graduate School of Architecture &amp; Urban Design at Washington University; Peter Sortino, Director, Danforth Foundation; Tom Bradley, Superintendent of the Arch grounds, and George Nikolajevich, FAIA, principal with Cannon Design. <br /><br />\\\"This experience will bring together artists, engineers and architects in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative ideas around an iconic yet dynamic part of the city of Saint Louis,\\\" notes Bruce Lindsey, AIA, <br />Dean of the College of Architecture at Washington University. \\\"The students\\\' ideas will contribute to the on-going dialogue about this important part of the city and contribute towards their development as future professionals and citizens. Students are a renewable energy source.\\\" <br /><br />The charrette is being made possible thanks to the generous support of the Washington University School of Architecture; AIA St. Louis Chapter\\\'s Scholarship Committee; the Gertrude and William A Bernoundy Foundation; Peckham, Guyton, Albers, and Viets, Inc.; Cannon Design, HDR, Jacobs, Mackey Mitchell Associates; Powers Bowersox Associates; TEAMS and Value St. Louis Associates, owner of the Mansion House, which is providing the space at no charge. <br /><br />To learn more about the upcoming Downtown/Riverfront Student Design Charrette, contact Michelle Swatek at the AIA St. Louis Chapter, 314-621-3484. <br />.</p>\";s:11:\"field_id_42\";s:24:\"/images/uploads/arch.jpg\";s:11:\"field_id_43\";s:0:\"\";s:11:\"field_ft_43\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"category_0\";s:2:\"16\";s:10:\"category_1\";s:2:\"26\";}'),(787,296,2,2,1225348794,'a:30:{s:9:\"weblog_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:8:\"entry_id\";s:3:\"296\";s:6:\"sticky\";s:1:\"n\";s:14:\"allow_comments\";s:1:\"n\";s:16:\"allow_trackbacks\";s:1:\"n\";s:10:\"entry_date\";s:19:\"2008-10-25 07:31 PM\";s:15:\"expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:23:\"comment_expiration_date\";s:0:\"\";s:8:\"category\";a:2:{i:0;s:2:\"16\";i:1;s:2:\"26\";}s:9:\"author_id\";s:1:\"2\";s:10:\"new_weblog\";s:1:\"2\";s:6:\"status\";s:4:\"open\";s:14:\"trackback_urls\";s:0:\"\";s:18:\"versioning_enabled\";s:1:\"y\";s:5:\"title\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:9:\"url_title\";s:42:\"stadium_still_in_the_cards_area_work_dicey\";s:6:\"submit\";s:6:\"Update\";s:10:\"field_id_5\";s:43:\"Stadium Still in the Cards, Area Work Dicey\";s:10:\"field_ft_5\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_9\";s:245:\"There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a  program on Downtown Development  Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club.\n\";s:10:\"field_ft_9\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_13\";s:1:\"4\";s:10:\"field_id_7\";s:33:\"DeWitt, Slay, Downtown, Cardinals\";s:10:\"field_ft_7\";s:4:\"none\";s:10:\"field_id_8\";s:3211:\"<p>There was good news for Downtown St. Louis and bad-but-hopeful news for the St. Louis Metro Area as whole when the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers held a&nbsp; program on Downtown Development&nbsp; Oct. 23 at the Busch Stadium Champions Club. <br /><img alt=\\\"DeWitt and Slay\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"303\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/dewitt-and-slay.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"266\\\" /></p>\n<h4>Cardinals President Bill Dewitt III and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay at The St Louis Council of Construction Consumers Presentation on Downtown&nbsp; St. Louis Update on Oct. 23<br /></h4>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Bill DeWitt III, Cardinals president,&nbsp; said that the Cardinals still hope to see construction underway in the Spring of 2009 on Ballpark Village. DeWitt said&nbsp; that the Cardinals plan to sell TIF bonds for the project in March, \\\"...if some semblance of order comes to the market.\\\" <br /><br />DeWitt said that the project has been reconfigured to&nbsp; push residential development into Phase II in recognition of current residential market realities. The Cardinals have lease commitments in place on 80 percent of the office/commercial space in Phase I, contingent on the sales of the TIF bonds, he said.<br /><br />DeWitt countered criticism of tax break given to the Cardinals. Despite the City\\\'s elimination of the admission tax, revenues to the City have increased from $6 million to $10 million a year since the new stadium opened, DeWitt said. <br /><br />St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay focused on the gains that Downtown St. Louis has made in recent years. \\\"Eight years ago Downtown St. Louis was a place where businesses were leaving,\\\" he said. <br /><br />\\\"We now have a vibrant Downtown, where people are living. If Downtown is doing better it\\\'s going to help the entire region.\\\"<br /><br />Slay noted the effort to create a Downtown streetscape, most notably the Gateway Mall sculpture garden project. Slay said that he had originally approached the Gateway Foundation for $350,000 for planning for the mall and ended up getting $30 million to fund the sculpture garden. <br /><br />He said that he is encouraged by the National Park Service\\\'s decision to consider plans that would develop some of the Arch grounds with amenities. &nbsp;<br /><br />\\\"What the Arch grounds do (now) is disconnect us from our riverfront. You can buy plum butter or beef jerky there, but you can\\\'t buy a hamburger.\\\" <br /><br />Slay said that while the demise of John Steffen\\\'s Pyramid Companies was unfortunate, Pyramid had left the properties poised to be redeveloped. \\\"Pyramid advanced the rehab-ability of the properties, \\\" Slay stated. \\\"Every one of the properties are now in the hands of people who want to get things done.\\\"</p>\n<p>Howard Wall, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis addressed employment and housing issues related to the St. Louis MSA. Wall said that the St. Louis area is tracking along with the U.S. economy in terms of jobs lost. St. Louis\\\' only area of job growth Q3 of 2007 to Q3 of 2008 has been health care and education, Wall said. 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He also was a long-time active participant in the AIA Large Firm Roundtable and other professional organizations.</p>\n<p>To honor his memory, HOK has established &ldquo;The John F. Mahon Sr. Scholarship Fund&rdquo; at St. Louis University High School (his alma mater). Founded in 1818, St. Louis University High School is a private, Jesuit secondary educational institution located in Forest Park South in the City of St. Louis. Mahon graduated from SLUH in 1964 and has recently served on the school\\\'s board of trustees and budget and finance committee. He also received a bachelor\\\'s degree from Saint Louis University and a master\\\'s degree from the University of Denver. <br /><br />&ldquo;John was a beloved leader whose legacy will continue to guide and inspire us,&rdquo; says HOK Vice Chairman Clark Davis. &ldquo;He had a profound positive influence on our people, our values and our collaborative culture.&rdquo; <br /><br />Mahon is survived by his wife of 31 years: Victoria Mahon and three children: John F. Mahon, Jr., Emily Singleton Mahon and Michael Patrick Mahon, all of St. Louis. <br /><br />Donors interested in contributing to the John F. Mahon Sr. Scholarship Fund can send a check payable to St. Louis University High School, Attn: Advancement Office, 4970 Oakland Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63110. Please specify &ldquo;The John F. Mahon Sr. Scholarship Fund&rdquo; on the memo line. 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Alternative #3: Program Expansion calls for revitalizing the Memorial by expanding programming, facilities and partnerships.\";s:11:\"field_ft_44\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_28\";s:49:\"Arch, plan, superintendent, Park Service, Bradley\";s:11:\"field_ft_28\";s:4:\"none\";s:11:\"field_id_29\";s:1184:\"<p>&nbsp;A design competition would be held to generate ideas for programmatic revitalization of the Memorial grounds in an area bounded by the North and South Reflecting Ponds, Memorial Drive, Washington Avenue, <img alt=\\\"Gateway Arch\\\" class=\\\"image-left\\\" height=\\\"347\\\" src=\\\"/images/uploads/Gateway_Arch.jpg\\\" style=\\\"float: left;\\\" width=\\\"260\\\" />Poplar Street, and Luther Ely Smith Square. The look of the Memorial grounds could be changed, according<br />to Bradley, \\\"so long as those changes are compatible with and respect the grounds\\\' status as a National Historic Landmark. The final design entries<br />will undergo environmental and historic preservation review by the National Park Service, prior to final approval by the agency.\\\"<br /><br />The preferred alternative, two other action alternatives as well as a no action alternative will now be fully analyzed as part of the draft General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement to be released for public comment in January 2009. 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