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The idea for a business combining virtual offices and conference-room rental with a cafe struck a few people in the St. Louis meeting industry at about the same time.
Cal Thompson and Euclid Strayhorn, veterans in the meeting planning and convention industry, are launching a Soulardarea venture, an express conferencing center, that will include a coffee shop, cyber-cafe, conference and meeting rooms, and virtual offices.
Meanwhile, Angela Lieb is in the planning and fund-raising stages for a similar business concept with more of a retail focus. Lieb is president of OffiStart Business Center, an office space consulting, virtual office and conference-room business based in West Port.
Thompson and Strayhorn's conference center will open in midJune at 1900 Arsenal, a building built in 1911 and located across Interstate 55 from the Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. brewery. About 25 full- and...