PORTLAND, OR-The proposed 28-story, 500,000-sf mixed-use tower would rise within a block of Gerding Edlen Development Co.'s Brewery Blocks redevelopment, which sits on the edge of the city's burgeoning former warehouse district.

SAN FRANCISCO-The market has seen 1.9 million sf of net absorption so far this year--half of it thanks to tenants relocating from outside the city--making it likely to surpass two million sf for the first time in five years. The pace of improvement has some thinking overall vacancy could drop into single digits by the end of 2007.

MUSCAT, OMAN-The acquisition was contingent upon JOL signing a memorandum of understanding with the Sultanate of Oman for a $700-million beachfront tourism and residential real estate project on a long stretch of beachfront near the Muscat International Airport. The MOU is now being negotiated into a development agreement.

MUSCAT, OMAN-The acquisition was contingent upon JOL signing a memorandum of understanding with the Sultanate of Oman for a $700-million beachfront tourism and residential real estate project on a long stretch of beachfront near the Muscat International Airport. The MOU is now being negotiated into a development agreement.

SEATTLE-The project, in the works since 2000, has already been approved once, but a taking related to the city's would-be monorail extension forced a change in plans.

BEAVERTON, OR-One year after acquiring the eight-acre former Tyco/ViewMaster facility bordering its Cascade Plaza shopping center here, Portland-based Harsch Investment Properties adds another contiguous property, Cascade Square, a 91,864-sf suburban office building.

ALBANY, CA-Magna Entertainment Corp. and Los Angeles-based Caruso Affiliated unveil preliminary plans for the redevelopment of 45 acres behind the historic Golden Gate Fields racetrack here. The project, which is subject to a vote of Albany residents, would open up the waterfront to public access for the first time in 65 years.

ALBANY, CA- Magna Entertainment Corp. and Caruso Affiliated unveil preliminary plans for the redevelopment of Golden Gate Fields racetrack.