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Neighborhood Ventures raised $500,000 from 100 investors.

Portland architecture firms are spreading the Rose City design gospel well beyond Oregon thanks to a solid reputation, good connections and being at the right place at the right time.

Though architectural services jobs have risen faster than overall employment, yet firms still report strong hiring demand.

HPM Building Supply partnered with the nonprofit Hope Services Hawaii on the project after being approached by local contractors who wanted to find a way to house some of the evacuees.

Kimberly Hoover had decades of law experience at some of Washington’s top firms under her belt when she veered toward a career in real estate.

Home Shoppe Hawaii LLC, a boutique real estate firm in Windward Oahu, has been acquired by Hawaii Life Real Estate Brokers.

Yvonne Ahearn, who owned and operated Home Shoppe Hawaii, will continue to lead her team from the Kailua office, which transitioned under Hawaii Life as of June 1.

“We decided to join forces with them to leverage these advantages, but also due to their company culture,” Ahearn said in a statement. “Despite their size, they [understand] my small firm’s dedication to…

Gabriel Metcalf, president and CEO of SPUR, is leaving the nonprofit urban think tank at the end of the year for a job in Australia.

Metcalf said in a letter to SPUR members that he will become CEO for Committee for Sydney, a city planning group in Australia's largest metropolis.

Throughout his years at SPUR, Metcalf was a public advocate for building more housing to create a more equitable Bay Area and for investing in public transit to alleviate the gridlock that increasingly defines life in…

The Portland native and director of one of the city's most prominent architects talks about planning properly for Portland's growth.

The U.S. National Park Service has become the latest casualty of San Francisco’s soaring office rents and housing crisis.

Vancouver, Wash., on the other end, could reap a big reward.

The federal agency plans to uproot its west regional office, which supervises 60 national parks throughout the western United States, from San Francisco’s Financial District for Vancouver.

A relocation plan to move the agency’s 150 western regional employees to a vacant building it owns at the Fort Vancouver…

Engineering giant Bechtel Corp. plans to move its corporate headquarters to Reston by the end of the year after more than a century in San Francisco.

Executives with the company told The Washington Post the move is part of a corporate consolidation to get all of Bechtel’s management in one space. Bechtel’s work in California has also waned as it has increased its oil and gas-related construction in and around Houston and its government contracting work in Greater Washington.

“Over the last…