EUGENE, OR-All told, there are five possible sites for the $70 million courthouse, and the General Services Administration is speaking with all the owners. The agency plans to name its preference this December.

LAFAYETTE, CA-The suburban office and industrial REIT sells five properties to complete its strategy of exiting the Texas and Kansas City markets and redeploying the proceeds toward paying down debt, buying back stock, and funding new developments.

SPRINGFIELD, OR-The company plans to break ground here sometime next March and open up shop in early 2002. Of course, these plans predate a 28% drop in the company's share price yesterday.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Under a landmark deal that won final approval in the Senate last night, more than one million acres around Steens Mountain in Eastern Oregon will be preserved from development in a way that both ranchers and environmentalists can live with.

TACOMA, WA-Without using the traditional public-bidding process, city council members this gave a locally-based commercial art firm first dibs on buying the city's soon-to-be former vehicle fleet space at 2308 S. Holgate St.

VANCOUVER, WA-The House of Representatives approved legislation this week - and the Senate is expected to follow suit - authorizing the U.S. Army to transfer half of the 151-year-old barracks at no cost to the city.

ENTERPRISE, OR-The Zumwalt Prairie is North America's largest remaining expanse of native bunchgrass land. Remote and relatively little-known, it supports extraordinary wildlife populations, including the densest known concentration of breeding birds of prey in the nation.

PORTLAND-The outdoor clothier is negotiating with ADC Telecommunications, a Minneapolis company that consolidated its operations last year and left behind 188,500-sf of space in three buildings.