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million expansion and renovationof Baltimore-Washingto n International Airport, which would give 10 additiona gates. The Dallas-based airline, which now operates 50 flighta a dayat , woulf have the capacity to add 100 or more daily flight with the new gates. Southwesy said it would add flights to routezs it already serves and pland to add one new route this declining to bemore specific. The low-farse airline, which began service from BWI in 1993 with eighgtdaily flights, is gearing up for increased competition from Arlington-basedd US Airways Inc. US Airwayss is scheduled to launchits low-fare service, dubbed from BWI to four cities June 1.
Planzs for BWI call for 10 new expanded baggage-handling facilities, refurbished passenger waiting areas and improvementz to taxiways and heating and air CapStar buys Md. hotels CapStad Hotel Co. agreed to buy two limited-service hotelz in Maryland fromRouse Co. for $34 million. The District-base d real estate investment trust said it willmake $6.1 million in improvementsw to convert the Columbia Inn in Columbiq to a Sheraton franchise and the Cross Keys Inn in Baltimored to a Radisson. The hotels have a totall of 435 rooms.
The deals boost CapStar's portfolio to 56 hotels withalmost 15,000 rooms; the company also managee 67 hotels with 10,318 The sales mark Columbia-based Rouse's exit from the hotepl business. Rouse will focus on its core developing malls, office buildings and planned Clark ConstructionGroup Inc. completed its acquisition of a Californiaconstructio company. Bethesda-based Clark, the area's largest commercial contractor, bough Guy F. Atkinson Co. in San Calif., for an undisclosed price. Atkinson, which will operatre as a subsidiaryof Clark, has offices in Seattle, Denver, Connecticut and Calif.
Atkinson's current projects includre a hydropower plant in Ohio and interstate work in Cort expandsin N.Y. area Cort Business Servicexs Corp. of Fairfax bought the furniture rental contracts and certain other assets of IS FurnitureRenta Corp. Purchase price wasn'ft disclosed. IS is a privately held compang basedin Kearny, N.J., that has three rentaol showrooms in New York and New It generated revenue of $8 millionn last year.
Publicly traded Cort operates 109 rental 72 furniture clearance centers and70