VANCOUVER, WA-With expectations of doubling in size over the next few years, the privately-held maker of debt collection software is planning to build itself a 50,000-sf headquarters off East Mill Plain Boulevard.

SALEM, OR-The 80-year-old, locally-based retailer may reopen this weekend following a bankruptcy judge's decision to allow the company to covert from Chapter 7 liquidation to Chapter 11 reorganization.

LONGVIEW, WA-If approved, it will be one of two new power plants in the city. In October, Spokane-based Avista and Steag of Germany announced joint plans to develop a similar facility in the Mint Farm Industrial Park in Longview.

VANCOUVER, WA-The $11 million project at 24th and Main streets will include row houses, condominiums, apartments, retail shops and a public plaza. LRS Architects is designing the project and Westwood Swinerton Construction will be the general contractor.

GRESHAM, OR-The nine-store company filed for bankruptcy in August and then closed outlets in Hillsboro and Albany. It planned to keep other locations open indefinitely, including the Gresham location, but last month said all its stores would have to close.

PORTLAND-The city's goals is to increase density in the rapidly gentrifying warehouse district without endangering existing views of the old clock tower atop historic Union Station. The council gets a first look at the proposal on Dec. 13.

PORTLAND-With the defeat of Measure 93, which mandated voters' approval to increase public fees or taxes, expansion plans for the Oregon Convention Center are moving forward, albeit with a $10 million increase in costs.

PORTLAND-Office and investment specialist Chris Johnson, a "top producer" for most of his 13-year tenure with the locally-grown commercial real estate services firm, is now a partner in full standing and an executive vice president.