KLAMATH FALLS, OR-In order to improve the financial performance of the company, Klamath First president and CEO Kermit Houser says greater emphasis will be placed on higher yielding/shorter term loans such as commercial real estate lending, small business, commercial/industrial and consumer lending.

PORTLAND-The PDC plans to pay $800,000 for the property at the corner Northeast 99th and Pacific Street and then recruit a private developer to build on the property in order to encourage construction on other parcels within the Gateway business district.

PORTLAND-Most brokers say the moves began in earnest in early 1998 after Trammell Crow Co. decided to add brokerage to its core business of developing real estate for institutional investors by taking top performers from the existing local brokerages.

PORTLAND-A new loan on the 124-unit Chinook Way apartments allows the local developer to clear up foreclosure proceedings, buy out an equity partner that was part of the problem and switch focus to the retail portion of its 95-acre planned community.

PORTLAND-The locally based, nationally known purveyor of care and education for children between the ages of six weeks and 12 years has shuttered 43 under performing stores over the past three quarters, but in the past three months has opened another 28 locations.

VANCOUVER, WA-After a two-month delay to adjust plans for a larger underground parking garage, work resumed this week in the 35-foot deep hole east of Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver. Cranes and concrete will arrive next month.

VANCOUVER, WA-After a two-month delay to adjust plans for a larger underground parking garage, work resumed this week in the 35-foot deep hole east of Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver. Cranes and concrete will arrive next month.

MADRAS, OR-Officials from the Central Oregon county have applied for $405,000 in federal funds to build an airport services building, after which the county hopes to develop a light industrial park.