AUSTIN-RuffCoffin, a new advertising agency, is building out 2,884 sf at Hannig Row, a historic CBD property along the bustling Sixth Street. The agency has inked a three-year lease in a Colliers Oxford Commercial-negotiated pact.

LOS ANGELES-Buoyed by this city's plans to create a sports and entertainment district Downtown, Palm Restaurant has leased 13,500 sf in the Toy Center Building and plans to open a new restaurant there by January 2002.

LOS ANGELES-The architecture and engineering giant will relocate to the CBD, bringing more than 500 workers with it. The move is seen as the biggest boost yet for Downtown's fledgling comeback.

ASTORIA, OR-The $5 million expansion of the Columbian River Maritime Museum here -- the first nationally accredited maritime museum in the Northwest -- is at the halfway point and on schedule.