SEATTLE-Gordon Sondland and partners gain final approvals for a 25-story Downtown hotel and apartment building at 1000 First Ave., where Warshal's Sporting Goods operated from 1936 through 2000. The existing buildings will be demolished.

OLYMPIA, WA- City staffers, consultants and a panel of city officials say Olympia should select Wilsonville, Ore.-based VIP'S Hotels Inc. to develop the publicly-owned conference center the city hopes to finance with a sales tax rebate from the state.

SEATTLE-The national retailer of outdoor gear and apparel will open two stores in the South Sound area later this month. The 22,000-sf facilities will bring the number of stores in the state to nine.

SPOKANE, WA-The locally based hotel owner, manager and franchiser says total revenues for increased 64.5% from $33.8 million in the third quarter of 2001 to $55.7 million in the same period of 2002, while earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization jumped from 18.8% to $12 million.

EDMONDS, WA-Triad Development Inc. says it intends to build an upscale, multifamily condominium project on the old Unocal tank farm site, just south of Downtown. The site had been on the short list for a new sewage treatment plant.

FEDERAL WAY, WA-The 111-unit multifamily complex, located at 2120 SW 352nd St. is snatched up by Whispering Hills/Bird LLC of Eugene, Ore. The seller was the Seattle-based Whispering Hills Associates LLC.

SEATTLE-Flush with cash after selling and leasing back its three-building, 158,000-sf headquarters in the city's South Lake Union neighborhood, the locally based pharmaceutical company buys the remaining property needed to house its future manufacturing site.

MUKILTEO, WA-The provider of Uniform Commercial Code and corporate data search, filing and document retrieval services, takes 21,000 sf at the four-story Harbour Pointe Tech Center in the north end of Seattle's Technology Corridor. The space will serve as the company's headquarters.