Sep 09, 2020

Unimark Construction

Peyton

Seattle-based Unimark Construction hired Ross Peyton as director of business development. Prior to joining Unimark, Peyton held several high-profile roles in commercial real estate over 20-plus years: as associate director at CBRE; a broker for Colliers; general manager and director of leasing at Unico Properties; and senior leasing manager at Hudson Pacific Properties. Unimark is a commercial interiors general contractor that is expanding its footprint throughout Puget Sound.

Sep 01, 2020

Compass Construction

Rennes

Seeb

Turay

Kirkland-based Compass Construction promoted Taylor Turay to superintendent and Jeff Seeb to project manager, and hired Isaiah Rennes as project engineer. Turay started with Compass in 2009 as a laborer, returned in 2011 as a labor foreman and worked his way up to assistant superintendent in 2014. Seeb joined the company in 2016 as a project engineer and was promoted in 2018 to senior project engineer. Rennes interned with Compass in his junior and senior years at the University of Washington. He graduated earlier this year with bachelor's degrees in construction management and architectural design.

Lease Crutcher Lewis

Karr

In Seattle, Todd Karr joined Lease Crutcher Lewis as healthcare director for Washington. Karr has 24 years of construction management experience, with a focus on health care projects. He previously was a project executive with Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co., and worked at GLY Construction for nearly two decades. At Lewis, he is serving clients such as SCCA, Seattle Children's, EvergreenHealth and Kaiser Permanente.

BMC Stock Holdings

Builders FirstSource and BMC Stock Holdings, both national building material suppliers with operations in the Pacific Northwest, will merge to create a company with over $11 billion in sales and about 26,000 employees in 42 states. Builders FirstSource is based in Dallas. Locally, it has lumber stores in Arlington, Bainbridge Island, Fife, Gig Harbor, Spanaway, Graham, Shelton and Olympia. BMC is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. It has local operations in Issaquah, Everett, Auburn, Kingston and Lakewood. The new company will operate as Builders FirstSource and will be based in Dallas, with corporate centers of excellence in Raleigh and Denver. The all-stock deal is expected to close later this year or in early 2021.