Hotels going up today are going above and beyond.

Across the nation, including in Central Pennsylvania, hotels are turning into destination points that boast convention centers, retail space, high-end restaurants and bars, spas, office centers and more.

An Ohio-based retailer will open a new, 600,000-square-foot furniture warehouse at the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and Pennsylvania Route 116 in West Manchester Township, York County.

Four employees from Cornerstone Design Architects in Lancaster County and a building-industry professional bought Cornerstone from Horst Construction Co.

Organizers of a skatepark honoring the late Reid Menzer, son of York County businessman Eric Menzer, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the project June 2.

I was handed a copy of your article on the building code and feel I should respond (“Contractors seek to annul building code,” May 18). I doubt the code will be repealed.

York County-based Rutter’s Farm Stores plans to double the size of its store at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Route 30 in York as part of a $4 million project.

A Utah-based company developed a paperless tool that allows property managers to distribute and complete lease agreements online.

Denny Miller likes the juxtaposition of running a 21st-century interactive communications company from an office that was built in 1890.

Should Pennsylvania phase out defined-benefit pension plans for state workers and shift to a defined-contribution plan, such as the 401(k)? Why or why not?

Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed today dedicated the first installment of 71 planned townhouses to be built along North Fifth, North Sixth, Reily and Calder streets.

Swatara Township-based TransCore received a $4 million contract to upgrade the toll collection systems for two bridges in Nova Scotia.

Global real estate group CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc., which has an office in Harrisburg, plans to become carbon neutral by 2010.

A Montgomery County developer plans to infuse new life into a three-acre site at 4125 N. Front St. in Susquehanna Township.

Resun Corp., a modular-construction company based in Dulles, Va., acquired the U.S. and Canadian assets of General Electric Capital Corp.’s Modular Space business March 31, according to statements from both companies.

Developers are responding to more expensive real estate tastes in Central Pennsylvania cities.