WASHINGTON, DC-The mayor and general managers from several of the District's major hotels gathered Monday in an attempt to attract more convention and tourism business to the city.

ARLINGTON, VA-Real estate players in Northern Virginia say the office market immediately around closed Ronald Reagan National Airport, and the Pentagon, may benefit from the terrorist attacks. The General Services Administration is moving displaced workers from the Pentagon, one of the places struck by terrorists on September 11, into buildings GSA leases in the area.

HERNDON, VA-This mortgage giant has signed a 10-year commitment for the entire nine-story, 229,000-sf building, which is the third phase of a planned 790,000-sf complex.

WASHINGTON, DC-The law firm has taken an additional 30,420 sf at 1001 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Presently, the firm occupies 117,000 sf.

WASHINGTON, DC-The association is moving forward with plans for a fall convention that has been altered substantially in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

WASHINGTON, DC-The increase is seasonally adjusted. On an unadjusted basis, the application index increased 19.9% and was up 97.6% versus the same week a year earlier.

WASHINGTON, DC-Robert Morse takes over hotel operations, as this management company continues to make executive changes, only days after affiliate MeriStar Hospitality scuttles $2.7 billion merger with Irving, TX-based FelCor Lodging Trust.

ARLINGTON, VA-Washington Mayor Anthony Williams traveled a short distance across the Potomac River late Wednesday afternoon, along with area congressional representatives, to press the Bush administration to re-open the airport. Closed now for nearly three weeks, the region is losing $5 million each day it's closed, and the airport and the businesses within it have laid off more than 10,000 employees.