SEATTLE-Property owners shelve plans for a senior center on Seattle's First Hill. Construction of the project, The Perry at Cabrini Center, was to have begun later this year. Completion was expected in 2004.

SEATTLE-The developer of protein-based medications is seeking permits to build a four-story, 66,880-sf research & development facility on a parcel adjacent its smoke-stacked headquarters on Eatslake Avenue.

BREMERTON, WA-City Council members have delayed a decision on a zoning change that would allow public buildings--such as schools, libraries and fire stations--to become office space.

OLYMPIA, WA-Now that state lawmakers have given municipalities with public facilities districts extra time to break ground on public/private projects, city officials are looking to create a PFD to help finance a new conference center.

BREMERTON, WA-City Council members will consider a zoning change that would allow buildings, such as schools, libraries and fire stations, to become office space.

PASCO, WA-WestCoast Hospitality Corp. reflags the Doubletree Hotel Pasco as one of its own. WestCoast acquired the property in December 2001, in a deal that included two Doubletrees and the entire Red Lion Hotels & Inns brand.

SEATTLE-Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc. and the Housing Resources Group form an alliance to develop affordable housing in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Vulcan, HRG, community stakeholders and City of Seattle Strategic Planning and Housing officials have met several times to discuss such opportunities.

KENT, WA-Starbucks leases 215,000 sf at the Springbrook 188 Distribution Center for an undisclosed sum. Some in the industry are hailing the transaction as the most significant industrial lease in the south Puget Sound area in the last 18 months.