Jasmine Lee -- RETAIL ROUNDUP

This year marks the 100th anniversary for Glabman’s Furniture, the Costa

Mesa home furnishings store owned and operated by the Glabman family for

four generations.

To celebrate, the store will open an antiques department, scheduled to

debut in May. The imported antique items, which are being shipped from

Europe, prove the hard-to-believe fact that furniture did indeed exist

before Glabman’s went into business in 1900.

The Glabman’s showrooms feature home furnishings for every part of the

house -- patio furniture, draperies, rugs and carpets. And for the

customer’s shopping convenience, there are interior decorators stationed

at the store in lieu of salespeople.

Glabman’s also has locations in Pasadena, West Los Angeles and Woodland

Hills. The Costa Mesa store is at 3089 Bristol St.

Sheraton Hotel to become Radisson

A hotel by any other name would provide sleep just as sweet. And so the

Sheraton Hotel Newport Beach will continue to offer business travelers a

convenient place to lay their heads -- just under a different name.

The 339-room hotel by midsummer will make the switch to become a Radisson

hotel. The lobby will get new marble flooring and the rooms will be

refurbished in preparation for the change, tentatively scheduled for July

12.

The hotel, located in the highly competitive area near John Wayne

Airport, specializes in corporate business clients and conventions.

Management has been refurbishing the nine-story main building and is

planning to do work on the towers as well. Once there is some down time,

the main lobby will get a face-lift, too.

Skiing at Triangle Square

If the recent rains are any indication, ski season should be in full

swing by now.

And those who want to get in on the snowy action, but can’t go to the

mountains this weekend, can attend a winter ski expo from 1 to 4 p.m.

Saturday at Triangle Square, at the corner of Newport Boulevard and West

19th Street in Costa Mesa.