PORTLAND-The Port spent $84 million in bonds in 1976 to upgrade the Portland Shipyard and build Dry Dock 4, the largest of three boat repair facilities at the shipyard and the largest dry dock in the Western hemisphere.
BEND, OR-Brian and Mike McMenamin's conversion of an 87-year-old catholic school property here into one of their popular brewpub and bed & breakfast operations will be the first McMenamins east of the Cascades.
VANCOUVER, WA-The projects are both planned for sites just east of the Evergreen Airport on Southeast First Street. The projects are moving forward because a traffic-based moratorium on new development near East Mill Plain Boulevard was recently lifted.
SALEM, OR-The 30,467-sf, six-story historic building across from the county courthouse was to go in a sealed bid auction, but nobody bid so the county last week mailed out an open invitation for interested buyers that says "time is of the essence.
BEND, OR-Sunriver is also reporting this week it has received for the second consecutive year a four-diamond designation from the American Automobile Association. Sunriver is one of only two AAA four-diamond resorts in the state.
OREGON CITY, OR-The residential developer is planning its second office project here, a 60,000-sf class A office building on Warner Milne Road, adjacent Portland General Electric's line crew center.
PORTLAND-Local hotel brokerage specialist Ed Dundon says the Westside hotel market is firming up and that despite rumors of its trouble, the airport market is reporting a slight increase in revenue per available room.
BEAVERTON, OR-In court Friday, a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge says she may decide later this week which debt reorganization plan will prevail for the the Round at Beaverton Central development, a long-stalled mixed-use development project surrounding a downtown light rail stop.
PORTLAND-The firms will be filling vacancies in a 4.2-million-sf Portland-area industrial portfolio the Chicago-based investor of pension funds is acquiring in a $400 million, 8.3-million-sf staged acquisition from Spieker Properties that began last fall and will continue through 2001.
PORTLAND-The Wards locations are at Clackamas Town Center and the Rogue Valley Mall in Medford, where Meier & Frank already has department stores, allowing the department store to separate out some of its categories.