SEATTLE-The Minneapolis-based electronics reatiler will open doors this Friday to its first retail stores in Washington State. The 45,000-sf stores will open on Southcenter Parkway in Tukwila and on Northgate Way, near Seattle's Northgate Mall.

TACOMA, WA-The Central Terminal, constructed in 1929, will close its doors today and eventually be torn down to make way for a parking lot that will support a nearby office building development. Greyhound Lines will move its operations to a bus hub in the new Tacoma Dome Plaza.

SNOHOMISH, WA-This small farming and logging town is fighting to overcome an economy crippled by the spotted owl controversy and limitations on logging by developing a plan for luring new commercial development, new companies and new jobs.

SEATTLE-The nation's largest publicly-held office building owner has decided to open up a Seattle office and assume management control of its portfolio, which until now has been managed by Seattle-based Wright Runstad & Co.

SEATTLE-The Associated General Contractors of Washington now has wage package agreements with each of the five basic construction trades in Western Washington. The three-year packages feature annual increases of 3.6% to 4%, well above the consumer price index for the area.

SEATTLE-The fourth largest timberland owner is selling some operations to Vancouver, BC-based West Fraser Timber Co., and merging with the Timber Co., a separate operating group of Georgia-Pacific Corp.

YELM, WA-The complex, being constructed by Yelm Prairie Development Co. on property it owns at 701 Prairie Park Lane, will provide the community with an eight-screen cinema, a restaurant, retail outlets, office space, a library branch, a 48-room hotel expansion, and a fitness and conference center, if all goes as planned.

SEATTLE-A $198.2 million plan to buy more parkland will be brought before voters on Nov. 7. City officials say the issue is critical because exploding growth is rapidly raising acquisition costs.