FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                  

CONTACT:  Greg High
Director of Development, High Hotels, Ltd.
717-293-4548                                                                              

Lancaster, Pa., September 3, 2002 – High Hotels, Ltd. announces the groundbreaking of the new 134 room Courtyard by Marriott hotel located on Crystal Run Crossing in Middletown, NY.  The ceremony marks the beginning of the first Marriott franchised hotel as well as the tenth hotel to be owned and operated by High Hotels, Ltd. of Lancaster, Pa., an affiliate of High Industries, Inc.  Greenfield Architects, Ltd., also an affiliate of High Industries, Inc., designed the layout for the new Courtyard hotel.

Known as "The Hotel Designed by Business Travelers", there are more than 550 Courtyard hotels worldwide.  Recently Marriott launched a major effort to reinvent the designs for the lobby and guestrooms of the Courtyard hotel to deliver on future needs of travelers.  The new Middletown Courtyard by Marriott will be one of the first hotels to feature this new updated lobby and guestroom design.  The new hotel is scheduled to open for guests by the summer of 2003.   

 High Hotels is currently developing their ninth hotel, a new Hilton Garden Inn in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., scheduled to open in November of this year.  High also owns and operates award-winning Hampton Inn hotels in Lancaster, Harrisburg-West, Reading, and York, Pa as well as Middletown, NY.  They operate top rated Homewood Suites by Hilton hotels in Reading and Harrisburg, Pa as well as a Hampton Inn & Suites in Annapolis, Md.  For more information please see our website at www.highhotels.com or call 717-293-4446.