LOS ANGELES-Jeffrey Tamkin, president of Los Angeles-based Tamkin Development, tells GlobeSt.com that most colleges now see student housing more as a marketing tool for attracting new students to their campuses than as a sheer revenue generator.

WILSONVILLE, OR-The locally-based glass company assumes a lease that runs through 2013 for a 38,000-sf free-standing warehouse building on four acres. The company is moving from about half as much space in the Wilsonville Business Center.

PORTLAND, OR-Joining the local operation of Cushman & Wakefield's Valuation Advisory Services Group are an appraiser from Salem, OR and another from C&W in New York.

LOS ANGELES-Jeffrey Tamkin, president of Los Angeles-based Tamkin Development, tells GlobeSt.com that most colleges now see student housing more as a marketing tool for attracting new students to their campuses than as a sheer revenue generator.

PORTLAND-Interestingly, the only office space in the five-block redevelopment for which Gerding Edlen Development has not secured tenants -- the 215,000-sf Block 2 tower -- is the only one of the bunch it no longer owns and one of the first that will be completed. It pre-sold the building to Multi Employer Properties Trust.

PORTLAND-The big-box electronics retailer agrees to a long-term lease of the 80,000-sf former Builder's Square building, which it plans to expand by 50,000 sf. It joins Office Depot, GI Joe's, PetCo, Sleep Country and Wicks Home Furnishings in the 333,000-sf power center.

PORTLAND-Thanks to a lease rate that was a couple of bucks below market and a space already built out especially for high-tech, creative uses, Brad Christiansen and Mike Holzgang leased up the avaiable 13,000-sf in just 45 days.

PORTLAND-In addition to confirming the 6,418-sf lease, property manager Dale Pearce tells GlobeSt.com a deal is pending for one of two remaining retail spaces, leaving few spots left to lease in an 18-month-old, 27-story building that its owner began building with neither financing nor tenants in hand.