SEATTLE, WA-A bright spot is Downtown Bellevue, site of four new office buildings in 2000, with 12 others in the works totaling some two million sf. The Downtown vacancy rate there is between 2.1% and 2.6%.

PHOENIX-A business park in an increasingly popular area in northwest Phoenix has attracted another back-office tenant.

ORLANDO-CLT Meetings International of suburban Maitland, FL is moving its 60-person staff into a refurbished 40,000-sf warehouse formerly occupied by Barnie's Coffee & Tea Co. on Primrose Drive in east Orlando.

VANCOUVER, WA-The one-year extension of the surcharge should allow the county to implement several audit recommendations, including a project-by-project cost-accounting system that should help determine why the county was losing $100,000 a month on review of development applications.