EDINA, MN-The interior tries to achieve the ambience of a California home in the '60s with upholstered couches and chairs, credenza, lamps and coffee tables.

PHOENIX-Hamstra Builders of Wheatfield, IN has its team in place for its first Arizona project. The in-town project, set to kick off in July 2002, calls for a three-story, 120,00-sf building that will be leased long term to the VA.

BELLEVUE, WA-John Howie is opening Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar in Civica Office Commons, a new two-tower, 300,000-sf development in Downtown Bellevue owned by Schnitzer Northwest. The 8,000 SF lease completes the lease-up of Civica's retail space.

PORTLAND-The Portland Development Commission is expected to move forward today by singing off on the hiring Yost Grubb Hall Architecture to study whether to renovate the former Holman Moving & Storage Building, located across the river from Downtown, or demolish it and build anew.