ORLANDO-The Chicago investment family, matching rival Hilton Hotel Corp. project for project, is starting the venture with a 1,500-room hotel that will be built to house another 1,000 rooms in five to 10 years. The Orlando hotel then would surpass Hyatt's largest property in Chicago by 500 rooms. Orlando currently boasts of having 111,000 rooms, the highest in the nation.

WHITE PLAINS-Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide reported that it assumed management of the former DoubleTree Hotel at Liberty Center in Pittsburgh and has renamed it The Westin Convention Center, Pittsburgh.

WASHINGTON, DC-The Urbans Land Institute, a nonprofit education and research institute focusing on providing responsible land use leadership, named Peter H. Monroe as its executive director and Richard M. Hance as its senior vice president.