GRESHAM, OR-Up against the 120-day deadline for processing American Property Management's application for a 264-unit complex on its heavily wooded 12.5-acre property here, the City Council gives it a thumbs-up.

SEATTLE-The airplane manufacturer says it will affect about 500 of its 78,400 employees in the region. Three metropolitan areas are under consideration: Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Denver. All three states have lower tax structures. One will be chosen by early summer.

SAN JOSE-For the second straight day since the first of January, business and residential customers in Northern and Southern California had their electricity shut off temporarily in what is believed to be a small taste of things to come this summer, when demand for energy really peaks.

TUALATIN, OR-Tualatin Business West will include four industrial-flex buildings and two commercial pads on 12.56 acres fronting Tualatin-Sherwood Road at 97th Avenue. The first buildings will be completed in October.

PORTLAND-The 12.25-acre property, valued at $22 million, includes a 139,000-sf administration building, a 51,000-sf truck shop, three fourplex apartment buildings and a house. The seller is Consolidated Freightways, from which CNF spun off in December 1996.

PORTLAND-The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors' annual awards breakfast also included rants and market predictions by keynote speakers Carl Panattoni of Sacramento-based Panattoni development, and Jim Johnson, Intel's vice president of technology and manufacturing.

SAN FRANCISCO-For all of 2000, however, there were significant price and rent gains. Nationwide, CBD and suburban office rents experienced double-digit percentage gains--11.27% and 10.97%, respectively--between the fourth quarters of 1999 and 2000.

BEND, OR-Says a source at The Pape Group, which lost the battle despite offering as much as $6,000 more per share than Powdr Corp.: "Four directors made a decision that will cost all shareholders a lot of money.