PORTLAND-Executives with Gerding Edlen Development, Opus Northwest, Pacific Coast Restaurants, L.J. Melody and Mark D. Barry & Assoc. will analyze 2002 and prognosticate 2003 over breakfast at the Downtown Portland Marriott in early December.

PHILADELPHIA-A $25-million check from the man who gave The Kimmel Center a jump-start and its name gets the long-planned new National Museum of American Jewish History off the ground. The 80,000-sf, five-story, glass-and-stone structure is planned for Independence Mall.

LONDON-Great Portland Estates has raised pounds 75.5 million ($120 million) in two separate transactions, selling a Midtown office building and an M25 business park.

DALLAS-The city's first Mexican/Hispanic-owned mall will open in a vacant Kmart, now being retooled for 200 shop spaces, 10,000-sf bus terminal, 6,000-sf special events center and 3,200-sf private club. The 10-year lease was closed in just four months.