PORTLAND, OR-The Portland Development Commission authorizes staff to begin negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding with locally based Ashforth Pacific and its partner Dallas-based Garfield Traub Development for a $100-million-plus convention headquarters hotel across from the Oregon Convention Center.

SAN FRANCISCO-The locally based private real estate company acquires a seven-story 208,000-sf office building on the Second Street Corridor between Interstate 80 and SBC Park.

SAN FRANCISCO-The locally based private real estate company acquires a seven-story 208,000-sf office building on the Second Street Corridor between Interstate 80 and SBC Park.

CHARLESTON, SC-The 573,000-sf addition to Wild Dunes Resort here will include 254 condominium units in several mid-rise residential-over-retail buildings surrounding a plaza.

CHARLESTON, SC-The 573,000-sf addition to Wild Dunes Resort here will include 254 condominium units in several mid-rise residential-over-retail buildings surrounding a plaza.

CHARLESTON, SC-The 573,000-sf addition to Wild Dunes Resort here will include 254 condominium units in several mid-rise residential-over-retail buildings surrounding a plaza.

MUKILTEO, WA-A subcontractor on the new Boeing 787 takes 16,665 sf at Harbour Pointe Tech Center, a four-story 350,000-sf office and warehouse building here that is located near Boeing's assembly plant in Everett, WA, and the Snohomish County Airport (Paine Field).

GRESHAM, OR-With the necessary approvals in place, this city's urban renewal commission should close this month on a 6.1-acre site that holds a former Fred Meyer department store that shut down in 2003.