Sep 23, 2016

Union Bank

Roberts

Union Bank appointed Lisa Roberts managing director and head of private wealth management for Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. She has 28 years of wealth management experience.

Lane Powell

Rachel B. Greenlee has joined Lane Powell's Seattle office as an attorney in the Litigation Practice Group, where she will focus on real estate and complex litigation. She also a judicial extern for the Honorable Ronald B. Leighton of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Trustmark Voluntary Benefit Solutions

Brenda Randall has joined Trustmark Voluntary Benefit Solutions of Lake Forest, Illinois, as regional sales director for the Pacific Northwest, covering Washington, Alaska, Oregon and northern California. She has worked at Sun Life, Allstate and Principal Financial Group. Randall's office is in Seattle. Trustmark provides employers with benefit plans.

Sep 22, 2016

Alpine Immune

Alpine Immune Sciences, a privately held biotech company developing an immune system modulation platform, named Stanford Peng, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer. He was chief medical officer at StemCentrx, executive medical director at Seattle Genetics and head of the Rheumatology Clinical Research Unit at Benaroya Research Institute in Seattle

Frazier Healthcare

Frazier Healthcare Partners, which provides growth capital to health care companies, said Hendrik Struik re-joined the firm as an operating partner on the Growth Buyout team. Struik originally joined Frazier in 2012 as an operating partner, and also worked Sarnova and Cardinal Health.

Transworld Business Advisory

Transworld Business Advisory has an office in Bellingham. Blaine residents Donald Gongaware and his wife, Leslee, and team member David Evans have an office at 1313 E. Maple St. Transworld Business Advisors is part of United Franchise Group, and represents corporations and individuals interested in owning a company or franchising.

Tarragon

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Lakeland Commons in Auburn.

Tarragon recently started two projects: 234 apartments in Frederickson and a 3.7-acre retail development in Auburn. The first phase of Sawyer Trail apartments is set for completion next summer, with 234 units in 11 buildings on a 25-acre site. Outdoor event space, pool deck, field house and fitness center, walking trails and playgrounds are included. No start date has been announced for the second phase, which will add 335 units. Here is the team: architect Milbrandt, structural engineer CT Engineering, civil engineer Barghausen Consulting Engineering and landscape architect Bradley Design Group.

This is the second phase of retail space at Lakeland Commons in Auburn. Three buildings will contain 17,400 square feet, plus there will be mini-storage in a separate three-story 100,000-square-foot building. Mackenzie is the architect, landscape architect and structural engineer. Apex is the civil engineer. No tenants have been announced. Justin Holmes and Josh Parnell of First Western Properties are the leasing agents.

Urban Land Institute

On Wednesday, Oct. 12, ULI will host a panel discussion at MG2's office, 1101 Second Ave., on “District Energy: What's stopping us from sharing in the sharing economy?” Topics will include sharing energy, reducing carbon footprints, ground-source heat pumps, solar, sewer heat recovery, wind power and micro-hydro power. One local example is Mack Urban's Cyrene Apartments, which will get energy Enwave Seattle, formerly Seattle Steam. The ULI panel will be moderated by Dave Cook (Aspect Consulting) and Lavina Sadhwani (Seneca Group), with Seattle City Council member Mike O'Brien, John Gaines (Freehold), Jim Leask (GeoTility) and Sairia Rhodes (Van Ness Feldman). Details and registration at (206) 224-4500 or uli.org.

Colliers International

In a recent update for apartment investors, Dylan Simon of Colliers said the boom will keep going in Seattle thanks to the continuing growth in wages and jobs. Simon says: “Given the region's diversified and growing job sectors, high lifestyle desirability and room for economic expansion, job and wage growth will continue to keep the Seattle apartment market vibrant and growing for the foreseeable future.”