PORTLAND-Only Portlanders remain in the running for Port of Portland's executive director position, which will have overall management responsibility for four airports, five marine terminals and several business parks, among other things.

VANCOUVER, WA-Redwood Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of locally-based Consolidated Freightways, opens a contract distribution and inventory management center just north of Mexico City on the so-called "NAFTA Highway." Electronics giant Sony Corp. already has signed on for half the space.

EUGENE, OR-The acquisition and renovation deal for a 30,000-sf former Waremart Foods store in West Eugene is contingent upon project approval and a signed 20,000-sf lease deal with the state Department of Administrative Services.

PORTLAND-In a move no doubt due to its United States headquarters being here, the hip shoe manufacturer will open its first U.S. location in Downtown Portland next week and follow with storefronts in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

SAN FRANCISCO-The communications company is added to a handful of companies that have a green light to sell broadband services to the myriad tenants within Shorenstein Co.'s 25 million sf of office space.

OAKLAND, CA-Woodtech purchased two neighboring industrial/manufacturing-use buildings totaling 50,000 sf on 1.6 acres in order to expand its production space without having to move. The seller was Abbey Press, which is consolidating its operations in Brisbane, CA.

MCMINNVILLE, OR-The national owner and operator of grocery anchored strip centers is leasing 28 acres abutting Linfield College for one of its retail developments.

WARM SPRINGS, OR-The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation is merging its The Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Indian Head Casino operations, renaming them the Kah-Nee-Ta High Desert Resort & Casino, and spending $5 million to upgrades the Central Oregon facilities