Union Pacific will be the exclusive sponsor of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial exhibition, which opens at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2009, in celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday. America’s 16th president, Lincoln was a great railroad advocate and is considered the father of the transcontinental railroad. He signed the Pacific Railroad [...]

Troops stationed overseas will test their skills in one of this year’s hottest new video games from Activision, Call of Duty®: World at War. Pro vs. GI Joe, the USO, and the Cleveland Browns are teaming up with Activision Publishing, Inc. for a series of online matches featuring the newest installment of the blockbuster Call [...]

There’s a new yellow rose in Texas. Mr. John Q. Hammons’ new 10-story, 283-suite Embassy Suites® San Marcos – Hotel, Spa and Conference Center (www.sanmarcos.embassysuites.com) today opened at 1001 McCarty Lane in San Marcos decked in brilliant yellow trimmings in honor of its collaborative relationship with the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF). The $50 million hotel [...]

Weary travelers have gotten a reprieve.
On Friday, the Bush administration temporiarly waived a portion of its post-September 11 travel restrictions at least until September.
For weeks, a proposal had been floating around Washington seeking to have travel restrictions for passport travel relieved for the next upcoming months. Since the beginning of 2007 new restrictions for citizens [...]

Lured by congressionally authorized tax credits and other financial incentives after Hurricane Katrina, a procession of developers announced plans to build high-rises.
Adding to the tension for commercial investors: Construction and insurance costs have soared.
At least one big plan — a $400 million proposal by Donald Trump to construct the city‘s tallest building — is going [...]

Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. has completed the sale of several properties, including two in Austin, to Walton TCC Hotel Investors V LLC as it prepares for a buyout.
Fort Worth-based Crescent [NYSE: CEI] has sold the Omni Austin Hotel and Austin Centre office building at 701 Brazos in downtown, as part of a transaction announced [...]

NORFOLK, Va. - Andrew Adams hated one soup kitchen because he believed the workers deprived him of food. He stopped staying at a homeless shelter because he was convinced the people who ran it were plotting to evict him.
So Adams lived on the street, sleeping in out-of-the-way places, trying to avoid the people who, in [...]

Plagued by a chronic shortage of local workers, Wintergreen Resort has tried every tack but lassos to fill its staff: It has recruited 15-year-old high school kids. College kids. Seventy-five-year-old retirees. Foreign students in work exchange programs.
Still not enough.
This season’s idea: Jamaicans.
This Blue Ridge Mountains ski resort three hours southwest of Washington — playground for [...]

The Boston Redevelopment Authority approved a 505-room hotel in the South Boston Seaport District on Thursday.
The project will likely break ground in the next 12 months, said Denis Dowdle, president of Madison Properties, which is developing the hotel. Dowdle bought the sliver of land on Congress Street known as the “sausage parcel” last April [...]

Dubai’s government bolstered its holdings of New York City real estate, announcing Sunday that its Istithmar PJSC holding company had purchased a majority stake in Manhattan’s five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel.
The US$340 million (euro260 million) purchase of the Mandarin Oriental, part of the Time Warner Center on Manhattan’s Columbus Circle, adds to the growing U.S. [...]

The people are crying over too-high property taxes. But West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel says they’re not high enough.
In an unprecedented move by a city, West Palm Beach is suing Palm Beach County Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits, demanding he boost tax assessments on three new downtown condominiums so the city can collect more taxes [...]

Freddie Mac introduces credit and homeownership guidebooks for the Asian American community in the languages of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and English. The CreditSmart® Asian guidebooks are the corporation’s newest educational tool for community-based organizations to use to educate consumers. While the Asian American community is the nation’s second-fastest growing minority population, the homeownership rate [...]