PORTLAND-The Port of Portland controls four airports, five marine terminals, several business parks and other real estate holdings. The executive director post is chosen by the Port commission, which is appointed by the Governor.

SANTIAM PASS, OR-A new $5-million lodge is under construction and slated for completion. A year after that, two new chair lifts and a tubing area will be up and running as the ski area tried to bounce back from a lousy ski season.

PORTLAND, OR-Molly H. Bordonaro, a sales associate at the local commercial brokerage Norris Beggs & Simpson, is one of four appointed to the board by George W. Bush. Bordonaro was a regional chairperson for his presidential election campaign.

SALEM, OR-The 100,000-sf building anchoring the northeast corner of the 650,000-sf development was one of the few mall buildings not already owned by C.E. John Co. The mall is undergoing a $17-million makeover.

PORTLAND -- Lease rates for rental housing in Portland grew 8.2% in the first quarter of 2001, nearly twice the national increase, according to the National Association of Realtors.

SEATTLE-A little more than $1 million from The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle is financing more than 260 new affordable housing units in rural Oregon cities, and will preserve and rehabilitate another 25 units.

SAN JOSE-The accounting firm has leased an additional 28,000 sf and will now occupy a total of 145,000 sf when the 341,000-sf class A office building opens in November. The project is now 50% preleased.

SALEM, OR-The 100,000-sf building anchoring the northeast corner of the 650,000-sf mall was one of the few mall buildings not already owned by C.E. John Co., which is finishing up a $17 million makeover of the mall.