MINNEAPOLIS-The Minnesota Supreme Court refuses to hear baseball's appeal of two lower court decisions requiring the team to honor its lease at the Metrodome. The Twins were targeted by Major League Baseball for contraction this year.

LOS ANGELES-Juergen Bartels, CEO of the London-based Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts, told a small crowd gathered in the Garden Room of his Le Meridien at Beverly Hills that the independent luxury hotel group has its sights set on becoming the number-one brand in the international hotel trade by 2004.

TROY, MI-Kojaian Cos. of Bloomfield Hills says it's ignoring offers to sell the 660,000-sf Top of Troy office building. Instead, it has begun discussing plans to build a mirroring mixed-use tower next door.