PORTLAND-Equity Office Properties Trust is one-quarter of the way through the project, which includes all lobbies and common areas. Yost Grube Hall is the designer and Baugh Construction is the general contractor.

SOUTHLAKE, TX-A Grubb & Ellis team has just closed a 25-acre sale for client Verizon Wireless, but is headed back to the bargaining table to talk lease renewal at Solana. Maguire Partners has sold the land, but IBM holds the office space reins.

Hammerson has bought a site off the prestigious boulevard Haussmann for a 335,000 sq office scheme due for completion in 2003. The project aims to take advantage of the current shortage of prime offices in the French capital.

BOSTON-The neighborhood of Brookline here in the city is suddenly faced with the possibility of being able to develop ten surplus acres owned by the state. The town has yet to decide what to do but it is its first significant development opportunity in years.