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We have a new Chairman at the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission -- Dan Dierdorf, the NFL Hall of Famer and CBS football analyst. Here's the official word on Dan:

DIERDORF NAMED NEW ST. LOUIS CVC CHAIRMAN

St. Louis – July 25, 2005 – Football great Dan Dierdorf is the new Chairman of the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission (CVC).

The announcement was made by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt. Dierdorf, whose term begins on August 29, replaces outgoing Chairman J. Kim Tucci, president of the St. Louis-based Pasta House Co. restaurants. Tucci has been in office since 2002.

A 1996 inductee in the pro Football Hall of Fame and a former all-pro tackle with the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals, Dierdorf has distinguished himself nationally as one of the top football announcers in the industry. He is currently an NFL television analyst for CBS and a St. Louis restaurateur.

The St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission is the official destination marketing organization for St. Louis City and St. Louis County. An economic development agency, the CVC works to bring valuable conventions, meetings, group tours and leisure visitors to St. Louis. The organization also operates and manages the America’s Center convention complex, which includes the Edward Jones Dome at America’s Center. The St. Louis CVC is the only destination marketing organization in the country to also manage its community’s convention center and a domed stadium.

Dierdorf will head a 10-person Board of Commissioners appointed by the Mayor of the City of St. Louis and the St. Louis County Executive.

“We are very excited to welcome Dan to the CVC,” said Carole Moody, president of the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission. “His enthusiasm for St. Louis is contagious and his high-profile in the community and across the country will be a great help in our efforts to win business for the destination.”

St. Louis now has 7,600 hotel sleeping rooms near America’s Center and more than 35,000 rooms area-wide. More than 2,200 rooms have been added to the downtown inventory since 2001. The convention center offers 502,000 square feet of prime exhibit space along with the 70,000-seat Edward Jones Dome, a 28,000 square-foot ballroom, the 1,400-seat Ferrara Theatre and the St. Louis Executive Conference Center.

Nearly $3 billion in downtown development is underway in the destination, including construction of a new ballpark for the St. Louis Cardinals to open in April 2006, a $208 million Pinnacle Casino east of the Edward Jones Dome, the Bottle District entertainment area just north of the dome, the Old Post Office Square redevelopment, dozens of new restaurants and thousands of loft condominiums opening in St. Louis’ historic buildings surrounding the convention center.

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