1.   Although environmentalists were supposed to have first rights to buy it, Villanueva sold property adjacent to a protected sea turtle sanctuary to the Spanish hotel developer Sol Melia.

2.   Gamlieli, a diamond dealer and hotel developer, said the choice to move to the desert community was easy.

3.   Hemmeter, a hotel developer from Los Angeles, had much greater casino projects in mind than his New Orleans river boat, however.

4.   Hotel developers bear that out.

5.   Hospitality Worldwide, a hotel developer, will identify sites, provide purchasing services and build the new properties.

6.   Rancho Vistoso manager Dick Maes said another hotel developer is looking at the Tortolita site, but he declined to name the company.

7.   The fact that the hotel developers are all local has helped their projects win approval.

8.   The Perot group, known as K-A Co., complained in its withdrawal statement that it had been offered less than other hotel project developers.

9.   They were built by Tharaldson Enterprises, a North Dakota hotel developer that has been a pioneer in the market for economy-class hotels in the Midwest.

10.   This year, however, the hotel developer will expand construction of its own brand name, Amerihost Inns.