Globest Sectors

PORTLAND-Umpqua Holdings Corp. receives $70 million in capital financing to fund the cash portion of the previously announced $215-million merger with Centennial Bancorp. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter.

WESTWOOD, CA-The office building on Santa Monica Boulevard is 32% vacant. The four-story, steel-frame structure was built in 1985. A remodel is planned.

ATLANTA-After nearly a decade-long absence from this market, the Troy, MI-based company partners with Royalton Investments to buy the nine-story, 86%-leased, 125,603-sf building. Hayman may build condominiums on its rooftop parking deck.

MIAMI-The price of the 29-year-old, 183-unit project in Plantation, FL, equates to $48,907 per unit. The project, originally built as a condominium community, has one- and two-bedroom units and is approximately 95%-occupied.

PHILADELPHIA-Cincinnati-based based trustee L.J. Shapiro sells the 100,000-sf, 25-year-old shopping center in the northern Cincinnati suburb of Forest Park for $2.28 million to Mendos Inc., which plans a significant upgrade. Anchors are Family Dollar and NAPA Auto Parts.

MIAMI-The Pompano Beach-based casual-dining restaurant chain, which earlier said it would be free from protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code by Sept. 22, now says the date will be Sept. 30.

AUSTIN-CDM, a multi-faceted engineering firm, shifts its office from the northwest submarket to the far northwest while First Avantus Securities relocates into 6,295 sf in its existing submarket.

AUSTIN-The officers are elected, the board is in place and the application will go into the national office in January 2003. Brokers, lawyers, title company representatives and even State of Texas officials are on board.