Aug 11, 2000

Residential Inventory Corp.

Grand opening ceremonies were held at the Larkspur Landing Hotel in June for the Residential Inventory Corp. located in Renton. The company is a licensed, bonded and insured corporation that provides video and digital home inventories. Owners Darlene Pryor and Don Teele opened the business which documents personal possessions for insurance and other purposes. The company provides high quality VHS tapes, digital pictures on CDs, computerized printouts and engraving services.

Armstrong/Robitaille

Tim Mooney, president of independent insurance brokerage firm Armstrong/Robitaille's San Francisco office, recently announced the opening of a new facility in Portland. Looking to expand upon its core commercial base of business, Mooney has hired Mark McPike as the new vice president to head up the Portland facility. McPike comes to the company with more than 20 years experience in the wood products and transportation industries.

Edmonds Community College

Gov. Gary Locke has appointed Ronald Howell, president of the Washington Research Foundation, to the Edmonds Community College Board of Trustees. He will replace Karen Miller, a longtime board member who was first appointed in 1978. Howell leads a private, nonprofit corporation that seeks to create start-up companies based on the most promising technologies developed at the University of Washington and other research institutions in the state.

Inforetech Wireless Technology

Inforetech Wireless Technology, a Seattle-based company that applies the Global Positioning System and wireless technology to information systems for the golf and recreational industries, announced it has named Iain McLean to the newly created position of chief operating officer. Effective Aug. 28, McLean will be responsible for shaping the company's business objectives and strategies as it prepares to launch the first-ever, hand-held, wireless golf pace-of-play GPS system, the InforemerT 2000

Aug 10, 2000

Harbor Properties

Debra Keskey joined Seattle-based Harbor Properties as residential leasing manager in charge of all the developer's leasing. She starts with Harbor Steps North, which is well into leasing, and then The McGuire, where leasing will begin in January. Keskey worked the past three years as directory advertising consultant for US West Dex. Before that she was in sales for other print media and managed leasing and sales for various sizable residential projects.

CB Richard Ellis

Therese Mercer is director of CB Richard Ellis' Northwest corporate services group, which is rebuilding from personnel losses. Mercer comes from seven years with Julien J. Studley Inc. At Studley, she worked four years for Microsoft, managing five brokers who lined up 3 million square feet of Microsoft leases in 80 locations around the country. Mercer also worked for Lincoln Property Co. and Village Resorts Inc.

CB Richard Ellis had built its Northwest corporate services around experienced brokers Gary Danklefsen and Rob Larsen when they shifted two years ago from handling Boeing deals for Cushman & Wakefield. Danklefsen, Larsen and Ken Barnes have left, however, in the past six months, Danklefsen and Barnes to run a toy company.

P.B. Investments

P.B. Investments bought West Valley Commerce Center I & II in Kent from Spieker West Valley Associates. P.B., headed by Seattle investor Tom Leavitt, paid $3.9 million. The structures total 78,367 square feet, so the price equals $49.50 per square foot. The two light-industrial buildings house seven tenants including a cabinet-making company to a birdseed distributor. P.B. has no plans to change the property's use, said Brad Knowles, a broker with Industrial Brokerage Services. Tom Abbott and Reynolds Haas of Cushman & Wakefield represented Spieker. Spieker over the past year sold the bulk of its Seattle-area industrial portfolio to the California Public Employees Retirement System to shift its investments into area office properties.

Koss Property Management

Apartment manager Tamara Simon received the professional property manager designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers. Fewer than 300 property managers hold the designation nationwide. Simon owns Koss Property Management in Seattle.

Security Properties

Tom Curran's Security Properties has 164 homes under development in the Poulsbo Place project off Jensen Way in Poulsbo. The three- to five-year project will feature mostly free-standing single-family homes, but will include 28 attached townhouses. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place on Thursday, Aug. 17, at 4 p.m

Webforia

Webforia, a Bellevue-based provider of business-to-business web products, tools and services, announced the appointment of Richard Bennett as director of business development. Bennett will be responsible for the development of Webforia’s online vertical community for legal professionals. Gary Leaf was appointed as director, information systems and customer support and service. Leaf will be responsible for hardware and software configuration, LAN administration and security, end-user and partner assistance and situation resolution. Kristine Szarkowitz joined the company as director of public relations. Szarkowitz will be responsible for overall corporate PR, including corporate awareness and visibility, executive counsel, corporate messaging, communications and media/analyst relations.

ApplicationStation.com

ApplicationStation.com, a Bellingham-based application service provider, announced it has reached an agreement to deliver its services to British Telecom's BTopenworld, a multi-user broadband access service and portal. BTopenworld is Britain's first commercial broadband service that provides high-speed Internet access to small businesses and home offices.

Seattle Public Utilities

Seattle Public Utilities announced the addition of Daisy Lam as its newest civil engineer. Lam will serve in the water engineering division performing plan reviews for many water utilities-related private contract projects. She served as an assistant project manager in the Seattle Public Utilities project management division before accepting her new position.

Seattle Public Library

Nancy Hevly, Thomas Seery, Airyang Julia Park and Wendy Minick have joined the Friends of the Seattle Public Library board of trustees. The Friends of the Seattle Public Library was formed in 1941 as a community-based, non-profit group dedicated to supporting and promoting the work of the Library system. Hevly is a freelance writer and member of the advisory board for the University of Washington alumni magazine. Seery is a retired business administrator for the General Electric Co. Park is an urban planner for Pierce County and Minick is the regional staff attorney for the Northwest Women's Law Center.

Olympic Pipeline Co.

BP, which took over as the operator of Renton-based Olympic Pipeline Co., announced its new management team. Bob Batch is president and will assume his duties as of Sept. 5. Bobby Talley is vice president. Jim Clark heads the health, safety and environment team, Andres Restrepo heads the engineering team and Dan Cummings heads the external affairs team.