BELLEVUE, WA-Like the earthquake and the Boeing decision, the local office market that breezed through 2000 with record low vacancy rates has become yet another source of anxiety.

SEATTLE-The partnership between Binswanger/CBB and Puget Sound Properties Commercial Real Estate Services LLC is another prime example of a competent local firm gaining the exposure, network and management of an established national firm with strong international ties.

SEATTLE-The timber company in the first quarter took a one-time gain of $24.7 million, or $0.36 per share, from the March sale of its southwest Washington timberlands to Poulsbo, WA-based Pope Resources LP.

BELLEVUE, WA-With the help of money partner Columbia Housing, the King County Housing Authority acquired the Somerset Gardens apartment complex here and will keep the units affordable to workers too often priced out of the community in which they work.

SEATTLE-LandAmerica Financial Group, the parent company of Transnation, Commonwealth and Lawyers title companies, says it will begin making its title commitments and title policies available over the Internet.

SEATTLE-GreenWorld 2001, scheduled for May 17, is a one-day community forum on "sustainable" design created to explain and discuss a variety of design methods. The program will feature an interactive panel discussion entitled "Greenwashing: When Green Isn't Green.

SEATTLE-Representatives of the City of Seattle's Strategic Planning Office and Department of Design, Construction and Land Use submitted the proposal to the Seattle City Council. Official legislation could be proposed by July.

TACOMA-The City of Tacoma will ask voters to fund the $32-million conversion of an old Costco Wholesale warehouse into a new police headquarters and fire station. Mail-in ballots are being delivered to voters this week.