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Portland's hospitality industry powered through the recession, and is looking strong in 2012.
"The economy is clearly recovering, from a travel perspective," says Brian McCartin, executive vice president of Travel Portland, the trade association that works to persuade conventions to land in Portland. In fact, for the more than 30 hotels in what Travel Portland considers the central city --which includes the Oregon Convention Center in Northeast --2011 brought the third-highest occupancy ever. The highest-occupancy years were pre-recession 2006 (No. 2) and 2007 (No. 1). Read more at OregonLive.com.
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Lane Powell is proud to announce the formal launch of their Privacy and Data Security Practice Group, which was organized to better serve their clients in this increasingly popular area — an area their attorneys have been working in for years.
From Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute: OTRADI today announced its plans to open and operate a 13,000 square-foot multi-tenant bioscience complex in the Willamette Wharf building at 4640 SW Macadam Avenue. Slated to be complete in spring 2013, the OTRADI Bioscience Incubator (OBI) will house up to six companies.
MEDIAmerica, publisher of Oregon Business and Oregon Home magazines, announces a new retail website: HalfOffOregon.com. The website offers lodging, dining, recreation and many other items at half off their regular cost.
As you probably know by now, The Vernon Company is a national leader in the promotional products industry with annual sales of over $60 million. We are a family owned business, led by the fourth generation of the Vernon family.
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