May 16, 2017

Western Office Interiors

Associates Purchasing, a privately owned Knoll furniture dealership in Los Angeles and Orange County, intends to merge with Western Office, Los Angeles, a unit of Western Office Interiors, a West Coast Knoll dealership with offices in Seattle and Las Vegas. Jonathan Felton, former CEO and president of Associates Purchasing, will be the new entity's president and partner.

LabCorp

LabCorp of Burlington, North Carolina, has completed the acquisition of Spokane-based Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories from Providence Health & Services and Catholic Health Initiatives. LabCorp now assumes PAML's ownership interests in Colorado Laboratory Services, Kentucky Laboratory Services, MountainStar Clinical Laboratories, PACLAB Network Laboratories and Tri-Cities Laboratory.

Crab King

A new restaurant called Crab King has opened at 15600 N.E. Eighth St. in the Crossroads area. Xiaomeng Liu and his wife, Peipei, operate the Northern Japanese-style restaurant.

May 12, 2017

Emergency Food Network

Stabbert

Emergency Food Network named Paul Stabbert director of operations. He was CEO and managing partner at EZXpeditors, an air cargo delivery firm. Stabbert will oversee the organization's warehouse and distribution.

Symetra

Bellevue-based Symetra Life Insurance promoted two Individual Life executives: Mary E. Bates is senior vice president and chief operations officer, and Phil Bouvier is vice president of sales and marketing. They are based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Guild Mortgage Co.

Jeff Miltenberger, loan officer for Guild Mortgage Co., has been ranked one of Scotsman Guide's 2016 Top Originators. Guild was named third for companies with the most ranked originators on the top volume list. Miltenberger was ranked 138 in the country and third in WA for most loans closed with 381 loans.

May 11, 2017

Washington State University

Michael Wolcott, Washington State University Regents professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named to the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee, which advises the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Energy. He is the director of WSU's Institute for Sustainable Design, and acting director of WSU Composite Materials & Engineering Center.

Big Sky Resort

Montana's Big Sky Resort hired Bob Stinchcomb as vice president of business development. Stinchcomb has worked 20 years in the ski industry, and was Vail's vice president of business development. Big Sky 2025 is a 10-year vision to invest $150 million in on-mountain improvements. He will also oversee business development efforts for Boyne at 12 other resort properties.

Tacoma retail center sells for $47M

Capital Pacific said it handled the sale of Highland Hill Shopping Center in Tacoma for owners Highland Sixth Associates LP, a partnership associated with Koehler & Co., which bought and expanded the property in 1985. The price was $47.35 million. The buyer was an LLC associated with Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. of San Diego. The Capital Pacific team was led by Sean Tufts. He said ROIC has been one of the most active large-scale shopping center buyers in the Puget Sound. The 163,926-square-foot center is anchored by Safeway and LA Fitness. It was renovated in 2008.

John Lo goes from JLL to CBRE

Lo

CBRE said John Lo has joined the firm's capital markets/debt and structured finance team as senior vice president. He moves from Jones Lang LaSalle. He has over 20 years in the field, and has completed more than $6 billion in debt and equity closings, according to CBRE. CBRE's Jeff Majewski said, “John's addition reinforces our commitment to robust capital markets execution for our most sophisticated clients in the Pacific Northwest.”

Greystar expanding in Seattle

Charleston, South Carolina-based multifamily developer Greystar is expanding its Seattle office. Greystar recently moved to 800 Fifth Ave., in a space that can accommodate about 125 employees. Lindley Woolston has joined as a senior development analyst. She comes from Camden Property Trust. Greystar said it is the largest operator of apartments in the U.S., owning or managing over 400,000 units. It has $16 billion in assets under management. In Seattle, it is building or planning projects at 820 John St., 425 Fairview Ave. N., 400 Boren Ave. N., 301 Queen Anne Ave. N. and 300 First Ave. W.