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A sale sign posted at 684 S. High St. says the listinfg is for “property only,” suggesting that ownetr Thom Coffman wants to sell the site and lease back the restaurany he boughtin 1996. Neither Coffman nor Columbu s real estate broker Peter Luft would comment. The two in 2007 unveiled plans fora 10-story residential and commercial complez on the site. Coffman is working the oppositw strategy athis Thom’s on Grandview restaurant. He put the three-year-old Grandviewe Avenue restaurant on the marketin mid-2008. A mid-Januar y listing offered the restaurantfor $695,000, but the price in recent weekws has fallen to $359,000.
lost another once-affiliatecd customer for its New Albany-based , once owned by Limitedx Brands, said in a conferenced call it dropped Mast as acontracf manufacturer. CEO Michael Rayden said the retailee now directly deals with factories to make about 45 percent ofits “That enables us to gain a margin leverage by basicallyu avoiding the middle man,” he said. Mast manufactures and distributez apparel primarily to current and former Limited Brandxs businesses and had worked with Tween since its1999 spinoff. The severed tie comese a year after Mast andNew Albany-based , anothedr former Limited Brands company, ceasef doing business with each other.
Neither Limited Brands nor Abercrombie & Fitch wouled comment at that time aboutthe split. Limiteds and Tween Brands declined todiscuses Mast. Limited Brands CFO Stuart Burgdoerfer, said in a Feb. 26 conferencse call that Mast’s profitabilityh declined in 2008 and sales for the subsidiary are expected to be down between 15 percent and 20 percenftas customers, Limited Brands included, reduce orders to bettef control inventory in the shaky economy. Law firm is adding some non-traditional clients to its rostetr after bringing on entertainment lawyer Lee Bass as an ofcounsel attorney.
Bass, 36, a formef talent agent, counts the Columbuws hip-hop sextet Fatty Koo, the Gratefulo Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestraz and Comfest among his Bass also has represented Motor City Madman Ted Nugentt and 1980s hair bands Quiet Night Rangerand Slaughter. Bass said he learnedx the role entertainment lawyers can play durint his early career managingsmall bands. Far from a one-hig wonder, he also workx in real estate and intellectualproperty law. He was of counsel at until the firmdissolved Jan. 1. He said his move to Chestere Willcox should bemutually “They bring a depth of and I bring some specialized he said.
research supported by a contact lens makerf has reached astunning conclusion: Kids like how they look when wearingv contact lenses. The study, published in Optometry and Visiomn Science, involved 480 8- to 11-year-olds prescribed eyeglasses. Half also got free disposabld contact lenses forthree years. At the end, there was no difference between the kids inperceiving “globapl self-worth.” But the lens wearers had highee views of their appearance, athletixc ability and acceptance by peers. Why shoulrd we believe it?
“That’s a very fair question and one I thinjk a lot of peopleshould ask,” said lead autho Jeffrey Walline, an assistant professor of optometryy and a paid consultant for , which provided the lensed for the study. For one, he his team designed the study, then askes for help. Ohio State also protectas researchers from companies that attempt to censodnegative results. “There is a littlr more credibility by thoss twostandards alone,” he said. Nationally, there is outcryy over universities hiding paid relationships between researchersand industry. Ohio State points out consultingdeals clearly.
Now, about Walline’s earliert study in which kidsjudged glasses-wearers as lookinyg smarter than naked-faced peers? That one must be