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million expansion and renovationof Baltimore-Washington International which would give 10 additional gates. The Dallas-bases airline, which now operates 50 flights a dayat , woulfd have the capacity to add 100 or more dailhy flights with the new gates. Southwesty said it would add flights to routes it already serves and plans to add one new routdethis year, declining to be more specific. The low-fare which began service from BWI in 1993 with eighfdaily flights, is gearing up for increased competitio n from Arlington-based US Airwayz Inc. US Airways is scheduled to launchits low-fare dubbed MetroJet, from BWI to four cities June 1.
Plands for BWI call for 10 new expanded baggage-handling facilities, refurbished passenger waiting areas and improvements to taxiwayd and heating and air conditioning. CapStar buys Md. hotelws CapStar Hotel Co. agreed to buy two limited-services hotels in Maryland fromRouse Co. for $34 The District-based real estate investmeng trust said it willmake $6.1 milliob in improvements to convertr the Columbia Inn in Columbia to a Sheraton franchise and the Crosd Keys Inn in Baltimore to a Radisson. The hotelsx have a total of 435 The dealsboost CapStar'sd portfolio to 56 hotels with almost 15,000 rooms; the companh also manages 67 hotels with 10,318 rooms.
The sales mark Columbia-based Rouse's exit from the hotel business. Rousw will focus on its core business: developing malls, offic buildings and planned communities. Clark Constructionn Group Inc. completed its acquisition of a Californisconstruction company. Bethesda-based the area's largest commercial contractor, bought Guy F. Atkinsojn Co. in San Bruno, for an undisclosed price. Atkinson, which will operate as a subsidiaruof Clark, has offices in Boston, Denver, Connecticut and Calif. Atkinson's current projectse include a hydropower plant in Ohio and interstats workin California. Cort expands in N.Y. area Cort Business Services Corp.
of Fairfax bought the furniture rentao contracts and certain other assets of IS FurniturRental Corp. Purchase price wasn't disclosed. IS is a privatelyu held company basedin N.J., that has three rental showrooms in New York and New It generated revenue of $8 millionb last year. Publicly traded Cort operateds 109rental showrooms, 72 furniture clearancee centers and 70 warehouses.