LAS VEGAS-The San Francisco-based real estate firm acquires the 190,000-sf Showcase Mall adjacent to the MGM Grand and New York New York hotel-casino complexes for $142 million. It also acquires an adjacent parcel on which it is planning a condominium-over-retail development.

PORTLAND, OR-Walsh Construction starts moving dirt for the Strand Condominiums, a project here by local developers Jack Onder and Homer Williams that will include 222 residential units in three mid-rise towers and one single-story waterfront restaurant.

REDMOND, WA-King County will issue RFPs next month for redevelopment of the 4.8-acre Redmond Park-and-Ride lot, which sits next to where a new transit center will be built.

ATHENS, GREECE-Kantor, a locally based 10-year-old management consulting firm aligns itself with the international real estate services network, which now has partner offices in 19 European nations.

ATHENS, GREECE-Kantor, a locally based 10-year-old management consulting firm aligns itself with the international real estate services network, which now has partner offices in 19 European nations.

SAN FRANCISCO-Chris Kostanecki, most recently senior director of Marcus & Millichap's National Retail Group, has left the firm along with brokers Zeb Ripple and Chris Peters to form a new partnership with Capital Pacific, a Portland, OR-based company specializing in the sale of investment real estate.

SAN FRANCISCO-Chris Konstanecki, most recently senior director of Marcus & Millichap's National Retail Group, has left the firm along with brokers Zeb Ripple and Chris Peters to form a new partnership with Capital Pacific, a Portland, OR-based company specializing in the sale of investment real estate.

CORVALLIS, OR-The Salem-based owner of 260 retirement facilities in the US and Canada closes on $6 million in financing for an 85-unit assisted-living facility here called Stoneybrook Lodge.