Long Beach Airport is set to open a new, much modernized and roomier passenger concourse in early December as it nears completion of a $145 million program to improve its car parking, terminal and aircraft ramp facilities.

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Alaska Airlines has unveiled its new ‘Airport of the Future’ location at Los Angeles International Airport in the newly remodeled Terminal 6, where the carrier has replaced traditional ticket counters with customer-friendly check-in kiosks and bag-check stations.

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Shore Hotel has opened as the first new-build hotel in Los Angeles beachfront town Santa Monica in the past 10 years. Owned by the Farzam family, the boutique-style property is the first newly constructed hotel in Santa Monica to win Silver LEED sustainability certification.

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The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe on the Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort near North Lake Tahoe has officially been awarded LEED certification from the U.S. Green Business Council, becoming the first-ever LEED-certified Ritz-Carlton resort.

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Slated for completion in spring 2011, the $383 million, 640,000-square foot T2 will serve as Virgin America’s home base and will be the first LEED Gold-certified airport terminal in the U.S.

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. has opened the Element Omaha Midtown Crossing, the first hotel in Omaha’s new Midtown Crossing neighborhood built around Turner Park in Omaha’s revitalized Midtown district.

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Located in Settlers Ridge in west suburban Pittsburgh, the state-of-the-art property design – created by Concord Hospitality Enterprises with support from Marriott – will be the prototype for all future LEED-compliant Courtyard by Marriott hotels.

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Hotel Felix Chicago has received the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification for commercial interiors from the U.S. Green Building Council, making this the first hotel in Chicago to earn this environmental status.

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The Courtyard Charleston/Summerville in South Carolina will be the first hotel built using Marriott International’s green-hotel prototype, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council.

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Marriott International, Inc. plans to expand its green-hotel portfolio ten-fold over the next five years by introducing a green-hotel prototype that will be pre-certified as meeting LEED standards.

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