BELLEVUE, WA- Conversational Computing Group and Locate Networks are taking space in the 20-story office building being developed at 333 108th Ave. N.E.

PORTLAND-The city's development arm is buying a downtown hotel and an apartment complex to offset the upcoming loss of low-rent rooms in the area.

SAN FRANCISCO-The 85-year-old brick structure has been empty since 1970, complementing a strip of Mission Street that has been neglected for some time.

PORTLAND- The court determines that nothing in the century-old adopting papers of the initiative system shows voters "intended to require private property owners to permit petitioning activity on their premises.

SEATTLE, WA-The Winston-Salem, N.C.-based chain will have area franchises by 2001 en route to 30 stores in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and British Columbia over the next six years.

WASHOUGAL, WA- The State Parks and Recreation Commission is eyeing 250 acres for sale near this small town just east of Vancouver, Wash.

PORTLAND, OR-Kalberer Co. and Venerable Properties are also considering a similar project on one-quarter block immediately south of the building.

CAMAS, WA-The port wants to buy back 45 acres near Seigerwald National Wildlife Refuge that it sold to the parks commission for $911,800 in 1991; the land sits adjacent the port's industrial park, which the port wants to expand.