On July 23, the business community joined the Vancouver Business Journal in celebrating the accomplishments of local contractors, architects, engineers and other building industry professionals during the 2014 Top Projects & Building Excellence Awards, held at Block 56 in downtown Vancouver (210 E. 13th Street). The area’s top projects – commercial, public and residential – were then highlighted in the July 25 print edition of the VBJ.

Construction cost: $5 million A new multi-tenant development, MAJ Place HD is located on the former Steakburger site between Interstate 5 and Highway 99. Construction of the project kicked off in May and is nearing its completion date. When finished, it will offer 15,000 square feet of retail/office space. The anchor tenant is a 4,400-square-foot Panera Bread Café with drive-thru. General Contractor: TEAM Construction Project Owner: Michael A. Jenkins  …

Bakery cafe to open this year; 2 other buildings are going up, with room for one more Steakburger is gone, but the beloved fast-food joint won’t be forgotten at its former home in Hazel Dell. Panera Bread, nearing completion on its new restaurant on Northeast Highway 99 at 72nd Street, has reconditioned three letters from the red neon “Steakburger” sign to create the word “eat.” That new sign will be…

Malia Spencer Staff Reporter- Portland Business Journal July 8, 2014 ZoomCare, the Hillsboro-based company that runs neighborhood health clinics across the Portland and Seattle metro areas, is taking on its first outside investor with a long-term deal with Portland-based Endeavour Capital. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, though Endeavor describes its typical equity investment as being between $25 million and $100 million. The deal gives Endeavour a minority stake in…

By Gordon Oliver, Columbian business editor Published: June 17, 2014 Photo: Zachary Kaufman/The Columbian Steakburger took its last food order May 29, ending a final burst of popularity that’s common when a long-loved but faded institution approaches its demise. This week, with the Golf-O-Rama miniature golf course and outbuildings already gone, the big machines got to the heart of the matter and leveled the restaurant that called 7120 N.E. Highway…