RENTON, WA-A new 58-unit luxury apartment complex by Dally Homes opened last week in this city's Downtown retail core, and an Irvine, CA-based investment group has bought a 382-unit complex here for $24.5 million.

SEATTLE-Starbucks Corp. says it is launching coffee shops in a second country in continental Europe beginning in December. The goals is to have 650 stores in Europe by the end of 2003.

SEATTLE-Chuck Barbo is the winner of Ernst & Young's annual Pacific Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year award. The award follows Shurgard's listing as one of the best companies to work for in Washington State.

SPOKANE, WA-The international company acquired locally based American Electronic Sign Co. late last year and renamed it 3M Dynamic Message Systems. Now it's expanding en route to new products.

SINGAPORE-The 50-50 partnership, called Colliers International Asset Management Pte Ltd, will feature online property management services as a way of differentiating itself on the worldwide stage.

BELLEVUE, WA-The locally based firm is ranked No. 1 architectural firm - and No. 7 overall - in The Zweig Letter "Hot Firm 2001" ranking, which lists the 100 fastest growing architectural, engineering, professional and environmental consulting firms in the U.S.

SEATTLE-LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. has announced the consolidation of the National Commercial Services office in Portland, with the one in Seattle. The Company's NCS division handles the coordination of complex, single and multi-property commercial real estate transactions for national customers.

SILVERDALE-The Outlook Above Silverdale Apartments have received $9.1 million in permanent financing through a loan arranged by Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P., the nation's leading commercial real estate capital intermediary.