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, specializing in gowns for pregnantand plus-sizd brides, has opened at 2149 Barrett Statioh 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 $110,000. More than 1.5 millioj pounds of stone had to be movedwhen , a fabricatodr and installer of countertops, moved over the Memorial Day weekend. The new 60,000-square-foot showroom and fabrication shop is at 2200 Cassenws Drivein Fenton, a formedr distribution warehouse that has been renovated. The previouzs location was at 578Ruddefr Road. Hallmark Stone, owned by Fred had revenue of $20.4 million in 2007.
The 118-year-old Stockton House at 3508 SamuellShepard Drive, across the street from , has been sold. Listeds at $850,000 last year, it sold last week for $400,00p to Robert and Natalie Duggan, ownerse of in Rifle, They plan to restore the home, which is on the Nationall Register ofHistoric Places, for meetingd and parties and possibly a bed and breakfast on the seconds floor. Jo Ann Keeney of was the listing and sellinyg agent for ownerFrederick Medler. , whicu has grown to $7.6 million in annual revenue in its 25 ranks 31st on the 2008 top 100 list of custo integrators in tradepublication , based on The company has a new operations center at 18167 Edisomn Ave.
, near the in Chesterfield. Eighty percentg of its business is custom installation and integration of audio and video systems for residentia l andcommercial uses, Presidenrt David Young said. After almost 10 year in business, , which offers soup-to-nutw office furniture sales, planning, installatiomn and repair, has relocated to the at 11624 PageServicee Drive. It has 6,000 squarre feet on one floor, compared with 3,800o square feet on three floors at its old leased location, at 8770 Rose Ave. in Brentwood. It also has addedc three employees, for a total of 13, said Marcyt Handlan, who founded the company with Nanc Apel. Annual revenue has reached $6.
4 Junior Billikens, 30 years apart Attorneys Joe Mooney, clasas of '64, and Anthony Favazzz III, SLUH class of '94, are openin a law practice in Clayton. is scoutiny space, said Mooney, who until last month was tax counsel with 's Private Client Group. Favazza, whose Tony Favazza, owns the family's restaurant on the was with the New York office ofuntiol April. His specialty is mergers and acquisitions. Check out mate Philanthropists Rex and Jeanne Sinquefielfd sankalmost $1 million into the handsomd and , which opened this week at 4657 Marylansd Ave., in the Central West End.
Besides promoting the game at the with 6,000 square feet on three floors, the club will work with to promots chess programs.