Mar 15, 2018

Caliber opens local office

Calvert

The Scottsdale, Arizona-based investment and development firm Caliber is opening a Seattle office, led by Sherry Zins Calvert. She makes the move from Arch River Capital. Calvert has helped secure over $300 million in captial in her career. Caliber says it has over $300 million in assets under management in five states in commercial, residential, multi-family, self-storage and hospitality sectors.

NAIOP: dueling economists March 21

Olsen

Gardner

NAIOP will hold a breakfast presentation next week, pitting economists Matthew Gardner of Windermere Real Estate and Zillow's Skylar Olsen against each other. Topics will include Amazon's HQ2, recent employment data and the Seattle market in general. The event takes place at 7 a.m. Wednesday, March 21 at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, 721 Pine St. Details and registration: naiopwa.org.

MoxiWorks adds to staff

The cloud-based Seattle brokerage startup MoxiWorks is expanding with two new hires: Jim Tarte as chief financial officer and Marc Chouaniere as vice president of marketing. CEO York Baur said in a statement, “We're honored to have industry veterans that are qualified to work anywhere in tech choose us to practice their craft.” The MoxiCloud platform has expanded from one brokerage client with 6,500 agents to 55 brokerage clients with over 100,000 agents. The company has about 75 employees, and recently expanded to a full floor in the Commuter Building, near the ferry terminal.