Los Angeles-based Woodridge Capital Partners is purchasing the landmark San Francisco hotel.

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One reason: "Certainly, more and more companies are sending people overseas, " says Scott Sullivan, executive vice president of Brookfield Global Relocation Services, a Woodridge, Ill.

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ThermoGen of Woodridge, Illinois, does just that.

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