Design Firms Expand Services, Add Hotel Restaurants, Healthcare, Spas

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. - Hospitality design firms have spent the last couple of belt-tightening years specializing, extending their service or hunting renovation work as they await economic turnaround and a surge of new growth opportunities. The consensus at ALIS (the Americas Lodging Investment Summit) was that any flow of new business is at least a year away. Below, executives from...