BOSTON-Denver-based Destinati0n Hotels & Resorts will enter the hotel market here with its new role as manager of the under-construction Nine Zero. The hotel will be a 190-key facility with 19 floors.

PORTLAND-Businesses cut some 800 workers this past month, pushing the jobless rate up two percentage points to 4.5%. The biggest cuts came from the manufacturing sector.

LOS ANGELES-A company planning a 240,000 sf industrial park acquires the 10.5-acre property in Vernon. Demolition has begun for the three-building project, which is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2002.

WILSONVILLE, OR-The winner will have approval to put up thousands of units of housing as well as office and retail space on the former Dammasch State Hospital in a semi-rural area at the west end of the city. It is one of the largest redevelopment sites in the region.