PORTLAND-A private grand-opening party for tenants and invited guests of Tom Moyer's 27-story office building in Downtown Portland is planned for Oct. 25. This week, the 10-screen movie theater and a Banana Republic store open.

PORTLAND-The 40-acre, 350,000-sf center being developed by MBK Northwest has put an 18-screen cinema on the back burner due to a glut of screens in the area, but says retail interest in the project has been huge.

BEAVERTON, OR-With all three projects leasing up, AmberGlen owner Birtcher Properties and leasing agent Grubb & Ellis are preparing to break ground on the park's third mid-rise office building.

VANCOUVER, WA-After appealing initial approvals for the three-story office building his landlord wants to build on the vacant lot that doubles as the beach adjacent his Beaches Restaurant, Mark Matthias appeals a hearings examiner decision back to the city council.

MILPITAS, CA-The independent supplier of storage management software buys the property for development of a second Silicon Valley campus. The first one, in Mountain View, will be completed in June.

LARKSPUR, CA-Using funds from recent industrial property sales, Spieker Properties picks up Drakes Landing for $330 per sf. The purchase gives Spieker 390,000 sf of space and a dominant position in the submarket.

SAN FRANCISCO-The proposal is to develop 150,000 sf of affordable space at Pier 70 and require private developers who receive city subsidies to build nonprofit space into their projects.

BEND, OR-The brewpub magnates intend to convert the former St. Francis School complex Downtown into a combination brewpub, hotel and theater not unlike the Kennedy School in Northeast Portland.