PORTLAND-The locally-based company agrees to acquire the landmark coastal resort for less than it traded for six years ago, with plans to transfer the purchase rights to its second limited partnership, Wisco Equity Fund No. 2.

PORTLAND-Executives with Gerding Edlen Development, Opus Northwest, Pacific Coast Restaurants, L.J. Melody and Mark D. Barry & Assoc. will analyze 2002 and prognosticate 2003 over breakfast at the Downtown Portland Marriott in early December.

PORTLAND-A public-private partnership of economic development professionals commissions a task force to review adopted and emerging economic development strategies from individual cities and synthesize the common elements for a region-wide approach.

PORTLAND-A public-private partnership of economic development professionals commissions a task force to review adopted and emerging economic development strategies from individual cities and synthesize the common elements for a region-wide approach.

VANCOUVER, WA-Construction of the first phase, 45 high-end condominiums, is being paid for with a $19.3-million loan from U.S. Bank and a $3.6-million "soft second" from Portland-based Wyse Investment. Ninety three more condos and 60,000 sf of office space also are planned for the Columbia riverfront site.

VANCOUVER, WA-The buyer was a partnership that included a 10-31 exchanger and Guardian Management, a regional owner and manager of apartments. The buyer assumed an existing $7.7-million loan carrying an interest rate of 7.09%.

PORTLAND-The 60,000-sf, estimated $20-million long-term lease agreement with the cooking and baking school--combined with several million dollars in planned renovations--should transform the struggling 140,000-sf anchor building of Downtown Portland's West End into a bustling lunchtime destination.

PORTLAND-The $35.7-million loan from the Union Labor Life Insurance Co. will be used to develop The Henry, a 15 story, 123-unit condominium tower with about 14,000 sf of ground floor retail. Site work has already begun.