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.