Immigrant Investors: A New Source of Real Estate Capital

When the Athia family arrived in Washington, D.C., during the 1990s, they gained entrée to the local motel industry through connections from their native India. What began for them as front desk check-ins and the cleaning of motel rooms in suburban Maryland has grown into Baywood Hotels, a successful family-run hospitality development firm that has completed more than 70 hotels nationwide.

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Marriott Marquis Washington, DC Now Accepting Applications for Hundreds of Job Opportunities

The Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC, the city’s soon-to-be-largest hotel, has officially started accepting applications for hourly employees as of Thursday, February 20. Opening on May 1, over the course of the year Marriott Marquis Washington, DC will provide hundreds of job opportunities, in housekeeping and front office, culinary, restaurants, engineering, loss prevention, and more.

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Swensons Start 2nd Century in Silicon Valley

As a leader of his own construction company, Swenson Development & Construction, for over twenty years, Case Swenson had the pedigree of a builder family that has been a major player in Silicon Valley development for a century. In 2013 he has devoted more time to a family business that his father, Barry, a perennial valley fixture had been running for over three decades.

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