New Look for Lima Beans at SCP; OC 50 Update; Lyon in LA

Talk about courage and imagination—the crew from AnQi showcased culinary renditions of both at last week’s debut of Courage of Imagination: A Tribute to Henry T. Segerstrom at South Coast Plaza. The retrospective on the life of the late retail impresario drew a crowd that was generally dressed to the nines, and AnQi added to the swell atmosphere by serving up “The Henry,” a vodka martini made of Hanson of Sonoma and garnished with a pickled lima bean. The legume, which gives the cocktail a bit of a milky look, was selected in honor of the Segerstrom family’s roots as lima bean growers, a crop it still raises on the family farm just a short stretch from the luxury retail center … Henry Segerstrom was an original member and constant presence on the OC 50, our annual inventory of influence that’s the centerpiece of this week’s issue (see pullout section for entries, related stories, pages 1 and 4). Anton Segerstrom and Sandy Segerstrom Daniels are among the 10 new entries on the list, a relatively high rate of turnover based on its 22-year history … More notes on members of this year’s OC 50: Another legend of local real estate—Gen. William Lyon—leads the pack when it comes to the cumulative clout of OC-based homebuilders in L.A. William Lyon Homes ranked No. 2 on the list of residential developers recently tallied by our sister publication, the Los Angeles Business Journal, with 193 sales at an average price of nearly $685,000. It was one of 11 OC-based homebuilders in the top 25 in L.A. last year … OCVA boss Ed Fuller notes that several OC hotels have another sort of presence in the L.A. market, serving as the Southern California home base for crews from a number of air carriers with routes to LAX from the Middle East. Etihad Airways crews stay at the Hilton Anaheim, which is owned by the sovereign fund of Abu Dhabi, the carrier’s home emirate. Crews from Emirates Air stay at the Hilton in Costa Mesa, and Fuller reports that Quatari Airways will soon begin flying into L.A. and Dallas, with service from DFW to John Wayne Airport through a code-share agreement with American Airlines … Gary Jabara is just a kid compared to General Lyon, but he’s been on our influential list since 2013, shortly after he sold a piece of his Mobilitie LLC for $1.1 billion and kept going with his telecom business and other enterprises. He’s now positioned Mobilitie as a leader of wireless distributed antenna systems—sort of like mini versions of cellphone towers that can be placed around certain venues, including Churchill Downs, site of the Kentucky Derby. That’s where Mobilitie’s systems boosted AT&T’s coverage, helping the telecom to its highest mark for data use on a mobile network in a specific venue for a scheduled event. An estimated 290,000 attendees during Derby weekend accounted for 5 terabytes of data—the equivalent of more than 15.3 million social media posts with photos, according to AT&T … Casting is under way for the Segerstrom Center’s version of a musical based on the life of Motown founder Berry Gordy, who once employed Igor Olenicoff as his accountant. Haven’t seen the script, but the Insider offers this suggestion if there’s a character representing Olenicoff: Go with Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård.