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, specializing in gowns for pregnantand plus-sizwe brides, has opened at 2149 Barretgt Station Road in Des Peres. She and her Dan Welcher, refinanced their home to pay the $50,000 in startupo costs and anticipate first-year sales of More than 1.5 million pounds of stone had to be movesdwhen , a fabricator and installer of countertops, moved over the Memoriapl Day weekend. The new 60,000-square-foot showroom and fabricatiomn shop is at 2200 Cassensd Drivein Fenton, a former distributionm warehouse that has been renovated. The previous locationn was at 578Rudder Road. Hallmarlk Stone, owned by Fred Christen, had revenu e of $20.4 million in 2007.
The 118-year-old Stocktoj House at 3508 SamuelShepard Drive, across the street from , has been Listed at $850,000 last year, it sold last week for $400,000 to Roberrt and Natalie Duggan, owners of in Rifle, They plan to restore the which is on the National Registe of Historic Places, for meetings and partiez and possibly a bed and breakfast on the second floor. Jo Ann Keeney of was the listingb and selling agent for ownerFrederick Medler. , whichn has grown to $7.6 million in annual revenuee in its 25 ranks 31st on the 2008 top 100 list of custo m integrators in tradepublication , based on The company has a new operationx center at 18167 Edison Ave.
, near the in Eighty percent of its business is custok installation and integration of audiol and video systems for residential and commercial President David Young said. After almost 10 yearw in business, , which offerds soup-to-nuts office furniture planning, installation and repair, has relocated to the at 11624 PageServicee Drive. It has 6,000 square feet on one floor, compared with 3,800 squarse feet on three floors at its oldleaseds location, at 8770 Rose Ave. in Brentwood. It also has addeed three employees, for a total of 13, said Marcty Handlan, who founded the companhy withNancy Apel. Annual revenude has reached $6.
4 Junior Billikens, 30 years apart Attorneys Joe Mooney, clasw of '64, and Anthony Favazza III, SLUH class of are opening a law practicein Clayton. is scoutingb space, said Mooney, who until last month was tax counselwith 's Private Client Favazza, whose father, Tony Favazza, owns the family's restaurant on the Hill, was with the New York office of until His specialty is mergers and acquisitions. Check out this, mate Philanthropists Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield sankalmosr $1 million into the handsome and , which opene d this week at 4657 Maryland Ave., in the Central West End.
Besides promoting the game atthe center, with 6,000 squared feet on three floors, the club will work with to promotde chess programs.