We offer a personal concierge, someone who will be there to service you from the time you check in until you check out. We know that much of our business travel is East Coast-based while the leisure guests tend to come from throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Replacing traditional phone service has been done. Now, it's time to utilize the real power of IP communications by providing organizations with capabilities that they can customize for any application in any environment. This is a good example of how the communications industry and computing industry are colliding.

This time it'll probably be even more intense. I'm sure there will be some lip service out there.

By the time we get to 2006 or 2007, there will be a ton of new service providers offering wireless voice and data, ... It's too late to think about the number of carriers shrinking. Five years from now we'll be looking at another wave of consolidation.

Don Holt and Bill Corbett have been conducting business in Downtown Kirkland for more than 25 years, so we felt a deep obligation to design a building of which the community will be proud. As one of very few hotels ever to open in the downtown area, we've a remarkable opportunity to play a role in retaining the aesthetic integrity and contribute to the economic development of Kirkland.

The theater will definitely get its use. It's going to be there forever, or at least as long as all of us will remember.