INLAND EMPIRE, CA-Hotel developers have opened one more hotel but considerably fewer rooms thus far this year.

VANCOUVER, WA-The $71-million development calls for a seven-story building with 225 hotel rooms and a 30,000-sf conference center. The building would occupy the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Columbia Boulevard, on the south side of Esther Short Park.

SECAUCUS, NJ-Many years in the works, the 312,000-sf complex will link most of New Jersey's commuter and interstate rail lines, and may spark a new round of development.

DENVER-Marathon Oil announces its plans to make its Denver exit as it reduces its workforce in several southern and western states.