PORTLAND-By defeating a statewide ballot measure that threatened the $100 million project's revenue-bond financing plan, voters have given the go-ahead for construction to begin early next year on the 105,000-sf addition.

PORTLAND-The locally-based national real estate investment and merchant banking company picks up a 1.65-million-sf portfolio in the Reno-Sparks area from one of the largest industrial developers in the nation.

ASTORIA, OR-The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners this week approved sending a letter of intent to that effect to the state Building Codes Division, saying it will improve service and maybe even bring in some extra revenue.

RIDGEFIELD, WA-Clark County is balking at plans by the church to build a 40,000-sf administration center because the agriculturally-zoned land it wants to use allows for worship centers, not business centers.

SAN JOSE-Manhattan-based Rockefeller Group Development Corp. is master leasing a six-story, 100,841-sf building under development on Winchester Boulevard, and then subletting four floors to affiliate Rockefeller Center Business Centers and one floor to Cushman & Wakefield.

LAKE OSWEGO, OR-Xandra T. McKeown, most recently senior vice president of business banking for US Bank's Oregon and Southwest Washington operations, now has responsibility companywide for West Coast Bancorp.

GRESHAM, OR-Albertson's and government officials can't decide who should pay for a $200,000 utility relocation in a multi-million project designed to fix an accident-attracting triangle of roads.

PORTLAND-Bruce Fery had directed the group's operations since 1997, overseeing the hotel, restaurant and commercial real estate assets of the Stevenson family of Bingen, Wash. The family recently sold its top asset, the downtown Heathman Hotel.