Kansas City, KS- A 200-room, 19-story, $16-million hotel is going up adjacent to civic center. It will be Kansas City, KS' only Downtown hotel.

TARRYTOWN, NY-A new e-commerce company headed by a former executive with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has opened for business at 155 White Plains Rd.

CHARLOTTE-The real estate industry generally is not taking full advantage of data on numerous Web sites because brokers traditionally are not used to sharing information that could be of mutual benefit to their colleagues, suggests GlobeSt.com national online editor John Salustri.

REDMOND, OR-Officials from Redmond, Deschutes County, the Oregon Military Department, the federal Bureau of Land Management, the Division of State Lands and a company proposing an entertainment complex all have an interest.