Portland, OR

VANCOUVER, WA-After a two-month delay to adjust plans for a larger underground parking garage, work resumed this week in the 35-foot deep hole east of Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver. Cranes and concrete will arrive next month.

DESCHUTES COUNTY, OR-High Desert Development Partners of Los Altos, CA, is proposing 420 houses, 180 condominiums, a hotel and a conference center as well as two golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools and equestrian facilities on 640 acres between Bend and Redmond.

REDMOND, OR-The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Central Oregon Irrigation District have published a notice of land exchange wherein the COID gets 254 acres here and the BLM gets 30 acres at Cline Falls on the Middle Deschutes River.

EUGENE, OR-Guard Publishing Co., which owns the Eugene Register-Guard newspaper, wants to develop the Summer Oaks Business Park on 20 acres next to its newspaper office on Chad Drive.