SALEM, OR-Oregon's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stays above 7% for the second consecutive month following four months in the 6% range, but remains well below September 2003, when statewide unemployment was 8.2%.

SEATTLE-To be located at Seventh Avenue and Westlake in the Denny Triangle area, the building will include 230,000 sf of office space topped by 170 luxury condominiums. The locally based developer predicts a fall 2005 groundbreaking.

PORTLAND-The locally based company is delisted after a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel denies the company's appeal of a Nasdaq staff determination primarily related to the company's continued affiliation with Andrew Wiederhorn, who plead guilty in June to two felony charges unrelated to the company.

NASHVILLE-After a three-and-a-half year planning-and-approval process that included a hard-earned federal permit to create a harbor and marina, the developer of a 180-unit waterfront condominium project here is nearing the construction phase.

PORTLAND-With its present 15-year lease set to expire 11 months from now, American Honda Motor Co. signs on for an additional 10 years at a starting rate of almost $1.4 million per year that will escalate every three years based on the Consumer Price Index.

SEATTLE-The Metropolitan King County Council approves the development agreement for its new $101-million Downtown office building, which will house some 1,200 county employees working in 10 different agencies.

SACRAMENTO-Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual pays San Diego-based Fairfield Residential $48.7 million for the Granite Point Apartments, a 16-building development located six miles north of Downtown in the North Natomas area.

KISTA, SWEDEN-The Swedish construction company NCC AB is under contract to sell its two-building Borgarfjord office development here to a CalPERS fund. The transfer of ownership is slated for November.