PORTLAND-The port purchased West Hayden Island in 1994. Located in the Columbia River between North Portland and Vancouver, the 825-acre island was envisioned as the future home to marine terminals.

EUGENE, OR-The land is slated for development, but a team of University of Oregon staff and students are fighting to preserve the property, considered one of the last undeveloped riverfront parcels in the area.

PORTLAND-The deadline is Wednesday for proposals to own the only house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Oregon. All that is required: $700,000 and property with a view of Mount Hood.

GRESHAM, OR-Columbia Trails is proposed for land adjacent the Gresham Station shopping center. City planning staff accepted comments on the project through last week, and are expected to respond to the developer's proposal in January.

HILLSBORO, OR-Walgreen Drug Stores has reportedly made a better offer for the property, but the city says it is prepared to expropriate the property for use as police station by using its power of eminent domain.

TUKWILA, WA-The 84,380-sf development is on 4.54 acres amid the largest concentration of retail--some four million sf--in the Pacific Northwest. The asking price is $13.95 million. The center is 100% occupied.

VANCOUVER, WA-Starbucks opened a downtown location here over the weekend, and closed the door on the city's status as the largest city in the Northwest still without a Starbucks store in its core.

PORTLAND-The City Council here delays an emergency moratorium in Northwest Portland to prevent more telco hotels from popping up along the city's new streetcar line, but will take up the issue again in January.