BEND, OR-There's only about 40,000-sf of floor space in the 73-year-old single-story structure, but it's as tall as a seven-story building, as long as one-and-a-half football fields and it sits on a little over four acres.
LINCOLN CITY, OR-The Villages at Cascade Head would be the largest development in the city's history. The property's changing ownership has made progress difficult. "The status of it, who owns it, seems to be evolving daily," says city planner Matt Harris.
ASTORIA OR-County officials will double the size of the 20,000-sf structure by adding a second floor beneath the existing roof. It paid $600,000 for the building, and will pay another $2 million for the remodel.
SAN FRANCISCO-In an industry where "Better! Faster! Cheaper!" is paramount, the RentPayment system could streamline routine tasks now that it can be fully integrated with the widely-used AMSI Property Management Systems.
HILLSBORO, OR-Japan-based Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. is in final negotiations for a seven-acre site on which it will begin development this month, investing as much as $90 million in coming years.
SAN FRANCISCO-In what just might be the strangest real estate story of the year, Maritime International is planning a $150-million floating hotel and conference center that would be an exact replica of the Titanic.
PORTLAND, OR-The 7.82-acre site in unincorporated Washington County includes three connected buildings containing a total of 188,500-sf of space. The locally-based clothing retailer plans to renovate and occupy the space within a year.
LOS GATOS, CA-CENTRE i, the non-profit arm of a local startup that provides one-stop, on-line shopping for finding, leasing and outfitting office space, this week begins publishing a refereed, on-line journal focused on solutions for the corporate real estate manager.
EUGENE, OR-After shooing the U.S. General Services Administration away from one site and pricing them out of a second, Chiquita has agreed to sell the city its 8.7-acre cannery property and move from it quickly in order to satisfy the GSA's timetable.
TIGARD, OR-The locally-based company recently closed on the sale of substantially all its assets. Yesterday, shares in the company were trading somewhere in the 15 cent range.
