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.