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I thought this should be in the Technology section as well.

StationDigital Moves Corporate Headquarters to Prominent St. Louis Building to Access Top Software Talent and Expand its Branding Efforts
ST. LOUIS, June 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/



Modern Building is Centrally Located in the St. Louis Area - Company Leasing 13,000 Square Feet of LEED Silver Space

ST. LOUIS, June 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet radio and digital broadcast platform provider StationDigital, Inc. today announced it has moved its corporate headquarters from Los Angeles to a building in St. Louis in order to attract top-tier talent and boost its branding efforts. It is leasing 13,268 square feet at The Highlands Plaza Two, located at 5700 Oakland Ave, Suite #200.

StationDigital chose St. Louis for its low cost of living and its abundance of quality software development talent that comes from area firms such as CenturyLink/Savvis, Visa, MasterCard, A&B, Rawlings, Energizer, Stifel Nicolaus, Ralston Purina, and US Bank, among others. The company is retaining an office presence in its former headquarters in Los Angeles in order to maintain its strategic ties to the entertainment and music industries.

StationDigital has signage rights on the building, with its sign to be viewed by more than 175,000 daily drivers from the I-64 highway. The building is centrally located between downtown St. Louis and the west county area, making it an attractive work destination for a large number of commuters. The Class A office suite comes fully furnished with modern items from Florence Knoll and Haworth. It's a LEED Silver classified building and offers free covered parking and several other amenities for tenants.

"Moving our headquarters to Saint Louis is an exciting chapter in the expansion and evolution of the company," said Lou Rossi, Chairman of the Board and CEO of StationDigital. "St. Louis provides companies like ours with a vibrant community, a low cost of living, and access to top-tier talent that will allow us to hire locally and build out a great team. We also wanted a centrally-located building with signage rights in order to build our local branding image to further promote the company as a place to work and the best choice for music streaming."

"As part StationDigital's strategic plan, we were searching for a corporate headquarters site that would support their branding and marketing initiatives. The Highlands Plaza Two, 5700 Oakland Ave, was the perfect high image, high identity building site in the West County where StationDigital will have building signage visibility from I-64 and a great location to attract the technology employees, and close to amenities and service for their employees" said their exclusive corporate real estate agent Nancy Morse CCIM, SIOR, Senior Vice President Cornish & Carey Newmark Knight Frank.

StationDigital provides quality streaming content through its library of more than 20 million songs. It features a personalized listening experience that allows users to build custom music playlists based upon themes and interests. It also offers the SD Rewards program which helps users earn virtual currency for listening to music and sharing StationDigital with friends on social media.

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Looks like the acquisition of Yurbuds by Harman will allow for job expansion.... Yurbuds will head up the headphones division and likely will add to its current roster of 40 employees:
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... l?page=all

We need some of these 30-50 employee companies that have cropped up downtown to become 300-500, but its a start.

I want bigger tech jobs announcements for St. Louis too. But I also feel that you must crawl before you walk.

Check this......in one week alone, there's been an announcement that Station Digital is moving from L.A. to St. Louis, Harman's Headphones division will operate out of St. Louis and now Upside Financial has solidified their St. Louis engineering office because its President and co-founder is relocating to St. Louis.

Upside co-founder is moving to St. Louis

I think the little things, like this move by the President, will eventually lead to bigger things for St. Louis. Imagine how this guy's move to St. Louis will have his Silicon Valley circle of friends and colleagues talking.

I suspect Harmon will be pouring money into the Headphones division if it plans to compete with Apple's Beats. More research and tech jobs certainly could be on the way.

There's more work to be done, but I think St. Louis is going to sneak up on other established tech hubs; and within the next decade it will become respected tech hub.

This is a big haul for a local tech firm.

Medical technology firm Lumeris raises $71 million in venture capital

moorlander wrote:

arch city wrote:This is a big haul for a local tech firm.

Medical technology firm Lumeris raises $71 million in venture capital

Today's business journal article on Lumeris it mentions a plan to hire 120 employes before the end of the year.

Another nice haul was BioSTL receiving a $30 million grant from JP Morgan.

^ my bad... yes, there's 10 other cities so maybe $3 million.

Pretty cool that T-Rex has passed the century mark with housing start-ups.

Also, Biz Journal reports some good news for two city-based companies involving out-of-state deals: Appistry will be having a Buffalo presence thanks to a NY state start-up program and RF Controls created a joint venture with Stanley Black and Decker in Georgia.... hopefully these will boost employment in Saint Louis as well through increased bottom lines.

While he'll continue to be involved in Saint Louis projects to some extent, Jim McKelvey is moving to Miami.
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog ... hcode.html