DENVER-Hotel occupancies fall to the 50% to 55% range, according to Horwath Horizon Hospitality Advisors/Montgomery & Associates, the lowest since 1989. Normal September occupancy has been more than 70%.

HOUSTON-A Houston family trust goes on a search for a new site to lease and instead becomes a buyer. The trust's acquisition is a 35,342-sf industrial building in Bellair. Half will be used for corporate offices and the balance leased.

BOSTON-The fate of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s involvement with the development of a headquarters hotel here hangs in the balance. The hotel, which would abut the convention center being developed in south Boston on the waterfront, is considered crucial to the center's success.

NEW YORK CITY-An international law firm is moving its local offices from one of the city's most notable Park Avenue skyscrapers to larger quarters less than a block away. But the attorney's aren't packing their briefs yet; they won't occupy the new space until July 2002.