Lawsuit Tied to Clayton Molestation Charges Enters Settlement Phase

Daniel T. Hughes of Pennsylvania is charged with molesting a 9-year-old girl at a Clayton hotel in a separate criminal case.

A settlement conference in the civil case of a man charged with molesting a 9-year-old girl at a Clayton hotel is planned Wednesday morning in St. Louis County Circuit Court, online court records show. Daniel T. Hughes, a Pennsylvania resident, is suspected of having molested the girl in March 2011 after forcing his way into the wrong room at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. The civil lawsuit, titled Jane Doe et al. v. Daniel T. Hughes et al., identifies Hughes, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Maritz Wolff & Co., and Enterprise Leasing Company as defendants. The settlement conference is set to begin at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday in Division 18 before Judge Richard C. Bresnahan, the website Missouri Case.net states. A separate criminal trial initially…

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Richmond Heights Reopens Negotiations on Hotel Project

City officials will renegotiate terms of a hotel and parking garage project with Mullenix, which plans to build a hotel and parking garage at the Clayton Road-Brentwood Boulevard intersection.

During the Richmond Heights meeting on Monday, city council members unanimously approved a resolution allowing city officials to renegotiate terms with Mullenix-Richmond Heights Redevelopment Corp. The developer plans to build another parking garage and hotel on the southeast corner of 2.54 acres at the southeast corner of Brentwood Boulevard and Clayton Road. “This allows us to negotiate the major business points of the project,” said City Manager Amy Hamilton. “Then, we’ll bring it back to the city council, and if they give their approval then we’ll formally put the time frame out there.” She said the negotiations would totally rework the construction project’s time frame. Originally, the agreement called for Mullenix to begin on the …

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Richmond Heights Council to Decide on Mullenix Resolution

Resolution would allow city to renegotiate hotel project timetable with the developer.

The Richmond Heights City Council meeting Monday figures to be a short one, with few items on the agenda. The council has one resolution on the ballot regarding a development agreement with Mullenix-Richmond Heights Redevelopment Corp. The developer plans to build another parking garage and hotel on the southeast corner of 2.54 acres at the southeast corner of Brentwood Boulevard and Clayton Road. “They’re asking for an extension,” said City Manager Amy Hamilton. “We wanted to give them adequate time. The deadline to begin on the hotel is Dec. 31, and they notified us they will not be able to meet that deadline. Obviously, since they haven’t started yet they’re not going to meet that deadline.” The developers plan to build a second hotel …

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Clayton Road-Brentwood Boulevard Development Hearing Planned

At issue are several acres of land at the southeast corner of the intersection in Richmond Heights.

Development at the intersection of Brentwood Boulevard and Clayton Road is among the discussion topics planned Monday by the Richmond Heights City Council. At issue is whether a Community Improvement District (CID) should be formed for roughly 2.54 acres at the southeast corner of the intersection, a notice from the City of Richmond Heights states. A public hearing to discuss a CID will happen during the council's 7:30 p.m. meeting at City Hall. Such districts are "organized for the purpose of financing a wide range of public-use facilities and establishing and managing policies and public services related to the needs of the district," the website Missouri Development states. The council on Nov. 21 authorized Mayor James Beck to sign a …

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Cardinals Fans Beware: Another Consumer Alert from the Better Business Bureau

The St. Louis BBB is warning fans who are traveling to Texas for the World Series about suspicious hotel offers.

On Monday, the St. Louis Better Business Bureau warned Cardinal nation about World Series ticket scams. Tuesday came an alert about hotel ads targetting fans who may be scrambling to find accommodations in the Dallas area. The BBB said the ads are cropping up on Craigslist. The alert A release from the BBB reads in part: Several ads for World Series hotel packages on a classified ad site claimed to offer tickets for a Rams-Cowboys game along with the hotel, a tip-off that the person who placed the ad may not be familiar with the teams in the World Series, the Cardinals and the Texas Rangers. Some ads are full of misspellings, which also can be a characteristic of fraudulent ads. “Sports fans may be anxious to get a hotel room near the …

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No Parking: Clayton Residents Want No Part of Parking Garage on North Central

Board of Aldermen approve extending zoning, planning designations for properties at North Central and Maryland avenues.

Some Meramec and North Central avenue residents opposed to the Clayton Board of Aldermen renewing rezoning and planning designations for several development project.  “This is my neighborhood,” said Suzanne Forsyth, a resident of the 100 block of South Central. Forsyth said the commercial area is encroaching on the residential area. “I am opposed to rezoning 119 North Central simply because they’ve now entered the residential area. I don’t care what they do with the rest of it, but not that one lot.” The board voted 4-0 to extend the rezoning and planned unit development (PUD) designations for one year. The original developer, RJ York SSG, had the lots at 25, 103, 111 and 119 North Central Ave. rezoned and designated as a planned unit …

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VIDEO: Peek Inside Revamped Cheshire Room

The general manager of the Richmond Heights hotel shows off the interior of a royal room.

Royal rooms at The Cheshire hotel will feature a presidential look, general manager Harry Lunt told members of the Richmond Heights Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. In total, the hotel will have 108 guest rooms and suites, including 22 royal rooms. He spoke as part of a tour of the renovations, which began in January. The hotel is expected to re-open Aug. 5.

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Myra Lopez

11:29 am on Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Cheshire Inn is a neat place, glad to see it's going to come back.   more ›

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Weekly PatchCast: School News, Electric Cars and More

A roundup of the region's major developments for the week of May 9.

Hello there. Welcome to the return of the PatchCast.  That's right, the PatchCast is back. This time, however, instead of it being a daily look at the St. Louis area, we'll take a weekly look.  This is the PatchCast for the week of May 9. Enjoy.  Here are the top stories from Patch sites in your area:

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Electric Cars and Old World Charm: Chamber Tours Cheshire Work

The tour of The Cheshire hotel renovation in Richmond Heights happened Wednesday afternoon.

When The Cheshire hotel reopens Aug. 5 in Richmond Heights, one of the services general manager Harry Lunt hopes to provide might seem to some a contrast to its Old World air: a charging station for electric cars. To Lunt, the dichotomy makes sense. He and other representatives of Lodging Hospitality Management have been soliciting feedback from people who frequented the hotel in times past. They hope to bring a mix of old and new to visitors. "'It's the old classic inn, but how do we reinvent it?'" Lunt said Wednesday, describing how he and The Cheshire team have approached the project. He spoke  at The Heights community center during a meeting of the Richmond Heights Chamber of Commerce. Chamber members got an inside look at construction…

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Nate Birt

9:20 am on Thursday, May 12, 2011

This story made me laugh — thanks for sharing, James. Yes, the bear is still there. He (or she) is draped in a covering of some kind so as to be protected from the renovation work. Right now, the bear stands near what is expected to become the hotel's library.   more ›

$1.5M Raised at Cancer Event in Clayton

The benefit for Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation’s Cancer Frontier Fund featured Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth.

On Saturday night, more than 660 people attended Illumination, an event held at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis in Clayton to benefit Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation’s Cancer Frontier Fund. The fund provides seed money for innovative research in an effort to fast-track better cancer treatment. Corporations such as Express Scripts, Clayco, Edward Jones and many others supported the cause. Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth performed and talked about her mother, who was diagnosed with several forms of  cancer. Her mother has had breast cancer twice.  “When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, I realized this was my moment,” Chenoweth told Good Housekeeping in 2010. “All my life, I’d been on the receiving end of my mother’s endless …

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