Jan 31, 2000

Union Gospel Mission

Seattle's Union Gospel Mission, which shelters an average of 450 people each night and serves more than 500,000 meals a year, is asking business owners to assist them in creating or expanding learning centers in all of its facilities. The Mission's staff is seeking items such as printers, copy machines, desks and chairs, fax machines, paper and other general office supplies, computers and software. Companies interested in donating can call Karen Andriesen at (800) 998-9484 or (206) 723-0767.

ConnectXt

ConnectXt, a Seattle-based developer of customer information system software, promoted Jeff Wheless from senior product manager to director of marketing and product management. Wheless joined ConnectXt in 1997 as a product manager

Jan 28, 2000

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo's Commercial Real Estate Group has hired Keith Dingfield as a relationship manager and vice president in Seattle. Dingfield is responsible for serving the financial and real estate needs of major commercial real estate developers in the Puget Sound region. The Commercial Real Estate Group provides a range of financing including for income property and single-family home tracts. Dingfield has 10 years' experience in financial services. His career includes positions in the Real Estate Groups at Mitsubishi Trust and Union Bank of California.

Insignia/ESG

Mark T. Walsh, CFA, CPM and RPA has been hired as director of property management by Insignia/ESG, which is expanding its property management capabilities in the Pacific Northwest. He will be responsible for the company's existing property management accounts in Oregon and will spearhead expansion into Seattle.

Walsh has managed more than 10 million square feet and leased in excess of 5 million square feet of mostly Class A assets in the Northwest. He has 13 years' experience and previously worked for Colliers International, Kennedy Associates Real Estate Counsel and Heitman Properties. Insignia/ESG strategy is to become a leading full-service provider for West Coast property owners.

The company already has a management and leasing portfolio of more than 5.7 million square feet in the Northwest. Insignia/ESG entered the Portland market in 1997 by acquiring Forum Properties. Across the nation, the company is one of the largest commercial real estate service providers. Among its Northwest clients are Principal Capital Management LLC, CarrAmerica Realty, GE Capital Investment Advisors, RREEF, Benaroya Co., and JDI Tacoma Limited Adv.

Prudential Commercial Real Estate

Seattle residential real estate veterans Roger Cayce and Mike Gain have established Prudential Northwest Commercial Real Estate LLC to provide brokerage services for leasing and sales of commercial real estate in the Puget Sound region. In addition, the company will provide property management, development and construction management services, business opportunity brokerage, and market and property research. Cayce and Gain own Prudential Northwest Realty Associates Inc., which has more than 210 residential agents in four offices that produce more than $500 million in residential sales and more than $60 million in commercial sales annually. Cayce said the new company will offer a range of real estate services through the Prudential Strategic Partners' Alliance.

The Counselors of Real Estate

Gary R. Danklefsen of CB Richard Ellis has been elected chairman and membership officer for the Counselors of Real Estate's Pacific Northwest Chapter. Russell W. Segner of Kidder Mathews & Segner, was elected vice chairman, secretary and treasurer, and Donald G. Spencer of Real Estate Advisory Services was elected vice chairman. The chapter's jurisdiction is Alaska, Idaho and Washington. According to CRE, it is an international group of high-profile professionals including members of prominent real estate, financial, legal and accounting firms as well as leaders of government and academia who provide objective advice on complex real property issues. Membership is selective and extended by invitation only.

WSCAR

Jeff Johnson of Kiemle & Hagood, the largest property management and commercial real estate company in the Inland Northwest, was installed as 2000 president of the Washington State Commercial Association of Realtors. Michael R. Bradley, sales manager and associate broker at Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Inc., was reinstalled as the organization's secretary-treasurer for 2000. He also was elected as an alternate board member of the Washington Association of Realtors. WSCAR, which strives to foster appreciation of the role commercial real estate plays in communities, is associated with the Washington Association of Realtors.

WAR

The Washington Association of Realtors recently installed four vice presidents for 2000. They are Larry Johnson of John L. Scott in Silverdale, vice-president of information systems; Eunice Hickerson of Windermere Real Estate in Kennewick, education; Rose Galloway, of Windermere, business practices; and Rebecca Anderson, of Century 21 Valley Homes and Investments, association operations.

Keystroke.com

Seattle-based Keystroke.com, which provides online lending technology, has developed a universal lending platform it says enables financial companies to reduce the costs of loan processing by as much as half, speed up the loan application process, increase loan closure rates and capture customer data for cross marketing of financial products. The platform allows lenders to brand and offers dozens of customized loan products - from first mortgages and refinances to credit cards - to consumers from one Web site. The platform appears under the identity of the lender. Users enter data and answer a series of credit and income questions. The platform uses this information to select lending programs for the consumer. Keystroke is 5 years old and created the first multi-lender mortgage marketplace on the Internet in 1996.

Pinnacle Realty Management

Seattle-based Pinnacle Realty Management Co., recently brokered two apartment transactions totaling more than $20 million. Jo Maynard, Jeff Gilson and Tim Campbell represented seller, Equity Residential, in the $7 million sale of the 82-unit Metropolitan Park, 601 S. Washington St., in Seattle to Metropolitan Park LP. Campbell and Gilson also closed the $13.8 million sale of Factoria Heights, a 145-unit property in Bellevue at 13180 S.E. Newport Way. Campbell and Gilson represented the seller, American Investment Management Co., of Tokyo. The buyers were Factoria Heights LLC. In addition to brokering the deals, Pinnacle will continue to manage both properties.

Windermere

The nonprofit Windermere Foundation last year raised more than $1 million, a 30 percent increase over 1998. The funds were donated to more than 250 Northwest organizations that assist homeless and low-income children and families. Each time a Windermere agents sells a home, a portion of the commission goes to the 10-year-old foundation. That provides about half the group's income. Other money comes from Windermere employees' contributions.

Doug Hicks has joined Windermere's Magnolia office in Seattle, and Daniel Riley has joined the Eastlake office, also in Seattle. Both are sales associates. Hicks previously worked in the broadcast industry, and Riley was with The Landmark Group in Seattle.

Reed McClure

Reed McClure added two lateral-hire attorneys to the business and intellectual property groups in its Seattle law office. Jodi L. Hansell will concentrate her practice in domestic and international business and securities law. Hansell joins the firm from the Seattle office of Patton Boggs. She also serves as adjunct professor at Seattle University Law School. Emmanuel P. Tangas concentrates his law practice in the software development industry, e-commerce companies, artists, authors, enologists and musicians. Tangas joins the firm from the Seattle office of Oles Morrison. Both are fourth year associates.

Tera Computer

Dean Thornton, former president of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, has joined the board of directors of Tera Computer Co., a Seattle-based designer of high-performance computer systems. Thornton said Tera's technology is the "future of high performance computing." He retired from Boeing in 1994.

Riddell Williams

Pamela A. Cairns, Craighton E. Geoppele, Barbara Van Ess and Steven B. Winters have been named principals at the Seattle-based law firm of Riddell Williams. Cairns practices business and tax law and is a certified public accountant. Geoppele practices in the area of mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and international business transactions. Van Ess practices labor and employment law. Winters focuses his legal practice in the areas of entertainment and technology