EVERETT, WA-The decades-old shopping center sells for $7.95 million to Asia First Inc., a Puget Sound area property management company. The facility is about 90 percent leased.

TACOMA, WA-Several homes are being cleared for what the Puyallup Tribe has billed as the state's largest casino, to include a 3,000-seat entertainment area, a 250-room hotel and mulitple water features. A retail center will be built next door.

SEATTLE-Panattoni Development Co. has contracted for a phased purchase of 52 acres in Sumner, WA. This marks the company's second major land purchase in the Puget Sound area in the past several months.

RENTON, WA- The Scandinavian retailer expands its store here for the fourth time in seven years and celebrates its grand reopening this weekend. This round adds 50% more sales floor space.

SEATTLE-The UK-based Six Continents Hotels will manage its first Inter-Continental hotel here. Groundbreaking on the upscale hotel, located Downtown at the corner of First and Madison, takes place in the first quarter of next year.

BELLEVUE, WA-Urban Retail Properties Co. gets leasing contract for the retail portion of The Shops at Lincoln Square, a mixed-use real estate development. The 1.4 million-sf facility is expected to be completed in the fall of 2003.

SPOKANE, WA-With roughly 6,000 absentee ballots left to be tallied, it appeared two measures that will make expansion of the Spokane Convention Center a definite reality, were passing in the unofficial count, according to elections officials.

SEATTLE-The Port of Seattle's largest warehouse tenant says it will vacate 420,000 sf and no longer ship containers through the Port. Hasbro Inc. had been a tenant for more than 30 years. It now will consolidate operations in Ontario, Calif.