Jun 07, 1999

King County

King County Executive Ron Sims recently appointed Jean Carpenter regional governmental relations manager. Carpenter, who has been the Executive's affordable housing liaison, will also continue in that role. Carpenter is a former Bellevue City Councilmember and Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle member, and served as vice president of the Suburban Cities Association, as well as its Legislative Chair. Carpenter most recently directed an intergovernmental work team to promote affordable housing. Carpenter is replacing Chuck Mize who is retiring.

Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe

Michael C. Dotten recently rejoined Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe as a shareholder for the energy group in its Portland office. Dotten left the firm a year ago to become General Counsel of PG&E Gas Transmission Northwest. PG&E relocated to Houston. Stanley A. Berman, former assistant general counsel for electric and hydroelectric litigation at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, recently joined the firm. Keith Cochran, formerly with Graham & Dunn in Seattle, recently joined as a shareholder in the technology practice. Bernard L. Russell, Lynn J. Loacker and David R. Wilson joined the firm from Foster, Pepper & Shefelman in Seattle.

U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray

James Weber recently joined U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray in its Seattle office as a managing director in mergers and acquisitions. Weber formerly served as chairman and CEO for Sims Sports in Mill Creek.

Senior Services

Jan Knutson was recently appointed president and CEO of Senior Services, the largest non-profit agency serving seniors in Washington state. Knutson formerly served as the United Way on-site liaison for Boeing Community Relations.

Jun 04, 1999

Quadrant

Troy Black has joined the Quadrant Corp., as finance manager, and Erin Fowler is Quadrant Homes' new assistant vice president of marketing. Black, a Spokane native, is responsible for analyzing the financing and sales of the company's real estate development projects. He previously was a financial analyst for Simpson Investment Co. and an audit manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Fowler will manage Quadrant Homes' advertising, sales office and model home merchandising as well as operation of the company's Smart Choice Design Center. Previously she worked for Kaufman and Broad, a California-base homebuilder.

Norris, Beggs & Simpson

Norris, Beggs & Simpson's Property Management Division has been awarded the assignment of managing the Crossroads Office Park by the Parkwood Limited Partnership. The office park is a 42,834-square-foot complex in Bellevue. Also at Norris, Beggs & Simpson, Gary Jones, Don Haze and Matt Wood represented Baldor Electric in subleasing its former facility at the Woodinville Corporate Center. Interact Inc., leased 56,430 square feet in a deal that Norris, Beggs & Simpson said is creative because it resulted in the termination of the sublease and Interact signing directly with the landlord, Spieker Properties.

BRE Properties

BRE Properties, a real estate investment trust, has redesigned its website. The new Resident section features an online portfolio of BRE apartment communities in 12 cities, including Portland and Seattle. It has downloadable driving directions. And the Business Partners section, which is new to the site, offers information about BRE's HOME (Home Ownership Made Easy) Plan, which allows residents to apply a percentage of their rent each month toward the purchase of a single-family home. BRE owns and operates 85 apartment communities totaling 22,182 units across the West. In Seattle, it has nine communities for a total of 2,316 units.

Stewart Title

Stewart Title, a Seattle-based real estate services firm, recently appointed Henry L. Roth to commercial sales manager. Roth formerly served as director of site acquisitions and asset management for Intracorp., a Seattle real estate development company.

Lake Washington Technical College

The Lake Washington Technical College recently named Dr. L. Michael Metkepresident. Metke will begin serving as president on Sept. 1, 1999. Metke currently serves as vice president for instruction and student development at South Texas Community College.

Advanced Research Systems Inc.

Tracy Maxwell, the founder and CEO of Seattle-based Advanced Research Systems Inc., developer of Atlantes Care Management System, was chosen as a finalist for the 1999 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for business leadership.

Betts, Patterson & Mines

Stephen L. Day, chair of the transportation and logistics practice group at Seattle's Betts Patterson & Mines, was recently elected president of the Association for Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, a national transportation bar association.