Jan 14, 1999

Seattle Symphony

Laurence E. Tucker was recently appointed general manager of the Seattle Symphony. Tucker formerly served as vice president and manager to Columbia Artists Management Inc. in New York. Tucker will assume his responsibilities on March 1.

The Woodmark Hotel

Tom Waithe has been appointed general manager of The Woodmark Hotel in Kirkland. Waithe formerly served as general manager of the Bellevue Club Hotel.

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Kathleen S. Sims has joined Foster Pepper & Shefelman as an associate practicing in real estate in the Seattle office. She has experience in lending, leasing and acquisitions and previously practiced in Rochester, N.Y. Susan Wright has joined the firm as an associate in litigation in the Seattle office. She has experience in commercial, aviation, product liability and technical cases.

Rezworks

Rezworks, a Seattle based travel and reservation technologies firm, has acquired GetawayZone.com, a Berkeley, Calif., company that operates a Web site for ski and snow vacations. Rezworks' http://www.vacationspot.com allows users to find and book vacation properties. Steve Murch, president and CEO of Rezworks, said the acquisition gives his firm talent, vacation properties and access to reservations technology. Six GetawayZone.com employees have joined Rezworks in Seattle.

Cobalt Group

The Cobalt Group, a Seattle-based provider of Internet marketing to automotive dealerships, has named Rajan Krishnamurty as vice president of software development. He spent two decades with IBM, in the U.S. and abroad. The company is expanding its software development team.

Jan 13, 1999

Journal staff

Over the past year, LMN Architects was been awarded several large projects across the country in the areas of urban design, performing arts, public assembly, sports and education. In Springfield, Missouri, LMN is leading urban design and planning for a 200-acre Civic Park Master Plan located at the city's center. The project will revitalize an abandoned industrial area, combining local history with recreation, art and education facilities. The project will involve the adaptive reuse of railroad yards and related industrial buildings, sites for a major exhibit center and ice rink, water features, trails and other enduring attractions such as a botanical garden and interpretive center. LMN is also working with the city of Flagstaff, Arizona and the government of the surrounding county to explore alternatives to the sprawling pattern of development that has recently dominated that high-growth community. LMN urban designers devised prototype plans for residential and mixed use infill, reflecting the context of older Flagstaff neighborhoods and showing that increased density can be accommodated in sensitive ways. Locally, LMN heads an interdisciplinary team for the Downtown Tacoma Plan and program, which involves economic revitalization, housing infill and connections to a future transit system. Over the next eight months, the firm will work with the City of Tacoma to provide advice on policies, projects, guidelines, investments, use of taxation tools, a development authority and parking strategies. In Colorado, LMN Architects in association with The Davis Partnership was selected for two higher education performing arts facilities. This team will provide full design services for Adams State College in Alamosa for an arts school renovation and expansion, and a new building for the drama department. The project will include a 250-seat theatre, black box studio theatre, art gallery and associated support spaces for painting, drawing and sculpture. For Front Range Community College in Westminster, a renovation and addition project similarly involves a performance hall, art studios, classrooms and offices. The Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth, Minnesota chose LMN in association with The Stanius Johnson Architects for an expansion project consisting of a ballroom, meeting rooms, prefunction lobby areas and associated support spaces. Located on the Lake Superior waterfront, this 65,000-square-foot project will involve close coordination with the Duluth Waterfront Review Design Committee, the Duluth Planning Department and Duluth's Traffic Engineering Department to design a facility addresses the harbor and helps to revitalize lakeshore activities and development. In the area of sports facilities, LMN is providing options for the renovation of the 1930s gymnasium and 1970s field house at Lakeside School in Seattle, Washington. The study entails programming, evaluating existing conditions and conceptual design options for building improvements. The project will accommodate high school physical education and athletic programs for 440 students. LMN has also been selected by the University of Washington to program and design Phase II of its Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and Engineering Building. The project will provide 157,000 square feet of space to be used for research and teaching laboratories, as well as faculty and staff offices. Building spaces and systems will be flexible to adapt easily to changing technology and program needs. The building will create an identity for the two departments and provide an edge to the traditional neo-gothic campus core.

Hart Crowser

Catherine Steen has joined the Anchorage office of Hart Crowser as an associate compliance specialist. Prior to joining the firm, she worked for EMCON Alaska, where she was responsible for facility compliance, environmental auditing, hazardous materials management and historical research projects. William Waite has been hired in the Anchorage office as hazardous building materials specialist. His experience includes the closure of over 100 fuel storage tanks across Alaska. Currently, Waite is providing hazardous building materials survey, management and design services for the major renovations at the Anchorage International Airport.

Coffman

Jim Low has joined Coffman Engineers as senior engineer and will be working to establish a new communications division. He has 19 years of experience as a communications consultant and industrial engineer. Sarah Robson has joined the firm as a structural engineer. Her current projects include a new anchor retail facility at the Flatiron Crossing Mall in Broomfield, Colo., and River Park Square Retail Center in Spokane. Tina Dos Santos has joined the mechanical department at Coffman. Her past experience includes production for clients such as Boeing and the Chief Leschi School in Puyallup. She is currently working on projects for Microsoft and AT&T.

Kopczynski

John Tessem has been promoted to principal at Cary Kopczynski & Co. of Bellevue. He is currently managing the structural design of the 31-story Westlake Tower residential building; the 11-story Metropolitan Park North office building, also in downtown Seattle; and the 19-story Bellevue Technology Tower office building in downtown Bellevue; and the eight-story Avalon Hotel in Portland. Bill Ulmonen has been promoted to associate. Ulmonen, who is CAD manager for the firm, has been with CKC for the last 13 years, and has worked on the Nike World Campus parking structure in Beaverton, Ore., The Grove Hotel and Bank of America Centre in Boise, and the Rose Garden parking structures in Portland. He is currently working on Metropolitan Park North, Juniper Springs Lodge in Mammoth, Calif., and First and Broad, a mixed-use project also in downtown Seattle. Bart Needham has joined CKC as a senior project manager, and is now at work on the structural design of Sunrise Lodge, a condominium in Mammoth, Calif.; Metropolitan Park North in Seattle; and Gateway Place, an office park development in Mountlake Terrace.

RCA/Huitt-Zollars

Richard Larson has joined the Seattle office of RCA/Huitt-Zollars, (formerly Richard Carothers Associates) as vice president for transportation engineering. He spent 30 years as regional administrator for the south central division of the Washington Department of Transportation. Richard Petit has joined the firm as aviation specialist and returns to the Northwest from Dallas where he was deputy executive director of planning and development for the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Joseph O'Leary returned to the Seattle office of RCA/Huitt-Zollars as project manager after three years as director of engineering and airport operations at the Port of Bremerton. He will be directing marketing efforts toward regional airports and managing transportation projects. Tiffany Halperin has joined the firm as a landscape architect after graduating from Arizona State University and working with the Arizona Department of Transportation and the city of Tempe planning office.

Fisher & Sons

Warren Brehmer has joined Fisher & Sons of Burlington as project superintendent for a new 200,000-square-foot engineered wood products plant for Pacific Woodtech, and Joey Baker has been hired a clerk-of-the-works for the project. Susan Luvera-Chiabai has been promoted to marketing administrator with the firm. She was previously with Prescott and Colliers International. Beth Greatorex has replaced Luvera-Chiabai as contracts administrator.

Yergen and Meyer

Steve Mick has been named human resources manager for Yergen and Meyer, a regional accounting and consulting firm based in Oregon, with an office in Bellevue. He was formerly human resources generalist with Warn Industries and Precision Castparts.

Martin Nelson & Co.

Steve Chess recently joined Martin Nelson & Co., a Seattle-based investment banking and brokerage firm, as an investment executive. He specializes in small-capitalization stocks as well as tax-free and corporate bonds.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Wright Noel has joined the Bellevue office of Davis Wright Tremaine as an associate practicing general litigation. He was formerly with Graham & James law firm.

Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson

Ann Gygi has become a principal in the Seattle law firm of Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson. Her practice emphasizes land use and environmental law and government relations.

Trade-Marx

Trade-Marx Sign and Display Corp. will make interior environmental graphics and wayfinding signage for the new King Street Center and underground garage. The 310,000-square-foot building that opens in July will be headquarters for two county departments, Natural Resources and Transportation. The interior will be designed around environmental themes and the garage will have a transportation motif. The environmental designer is Kathy Murray of Houston-based Olive Design. Trade-Marx is a 30-year-old Seattle firm which makes high-end signage and environmental graphics for clients including Microsoft, Boeing and REI.

PublishingOnline.com

PublishingOnline.com is a commercial electronic publishing house that offers original works of fiction and non-fiction for sale over the Internet. Site visitors can browse by author, category and title, and pay with a credit card. Books are downloaded in minutes. Paul Knight is CEO/publisher for the Seattle-based company. He is accepting manuscripts for publication.