PORTLAND-The 70-acre subsidized Columbia Villa housing project in North Portland will be redeveloped thanks to a successful grant application, which the Housing Authority of Portland submitted in June to the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development.

SALEM, OR-The seller is Burnham Pacific, a San Diego-based retail REIT that is liquidating its portfolio. Its other remaining Salem property, along with one in Aloha are under contract to be sold later this year as part of a $151-million, 18-property, deal.

EUGENE, OR-The Nike founder and chief executive is reinstating his support of the university, which stopped amid controversy 18 months ago, ensuring that the ongoing $85 million expansion of Autzen Stadium can be completed without cutbacks.

DALLAS, OR-The two-building 189,000-sf former Caterpillar manufacturing and warehouse facility in Dallas, OR is in escrow to an investor who plans to rehab the older space and use it for incubating small-but-growing manufacturing firms.

SEATTLE-New Jersey-based Spencer Gifts Inc. goes through The Staubach Company's Seattle retail services office to secure more than 500,000 sf in the Los Angeles, Seattle, Phoenix, Portland, OR and Hartford, CT markets for its Spirit Halloween Superstores division.

PORTLAND-Several officers of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors' will speak at the Commercial Real Estate Women luncheon, including SIOR's Western Regional Vice President Don Ossey. The event was reschedueld from Sept. 13.

PORTLAND-The San Jose-based company that acquired Webtrends in March and took over its seven-year, 58,000-sf lease in the new Downtown high rise is now marketing its 19,275-sf view space that was never improved or occupied.

LAKE OSWEGO, OR-Oregon Business Bank of Lake Oswego was the fastest growing financial institution in Oregon in 2000 and is located near Walla Walla, WA-based Banner's construction and mortgage lending subsidiary, Community Financial Corp.