Mar 30, 2001

Bellevue Chamber of Commerce

Betty Nokes, currently Renton's director of economic development, neighborhoods and strategic planning, was selected from among 55 applicants in a national search to become CEO of the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce, effective May 1. Nokes served a five-year term as president and CEO of the Renton Chamber of Commerce. She was Renton's 2000 Citizen of the Year and 1996 Chamber Executive of the Year in Washington state. Nokes' achievements include a $1.5 million fund-raising campaign for the Renton Community IKEA Performing Arts Center.

Seattle Public Library

David Traylor has joined the Citizen Implementation Review Panel, which is responsible for providing citizen oversight of Seattle Public Library's Libraries for All building program. The 15-member panel meets monthly to monitor and provide feedback on implementation of the voter-approved program.

tompeterscompany!

tompeterscompany!, a training and consulting company, has opened a Seattle office. Nancy Winship serves as the Northwest regional director and Hugh Blane is senior consultant. Winship's career focuses on how to streamline and optimize organizations to improve customer service. Blane is a consultant, leadership development coach and inspirational speaker.

QFC/Seattle's Best Coffee

Quality Food Centers and Seattle's Best Coffee announced an agreement in which the Bellevue-based grocery chain will convert all Veneto's-branded espresso bars, kiosks and fresh-brewed coffee stations to the SBC brand over the next six months. QFC will also expand the presence of SBC products on its grocery shelves.

Seattle Webgrrls

The Internet organization Seattle Webgrrls has named Melinda Giovengo, founder and CEO of Showcase Web Design, as local chapter leader. With over 100 chapters around the world, Webgrrls International was the first Internet organization for women. Each chapter is led by a local woman who has taken the initiative to bring the organization to her hometown. The Webgrrls International Web site can be found at http://www.webgrrls.com. The first Seattle Webgrrls meeting led by Giovengo will be held April 5 at 6:30 p.m. at Union Square Boardroom, 600 University St., First Level. For more information, contact Melinda Giovengo at Melinda@showcasewebdesign.com.

Omega Group

Omega Group, a financial consulting agency with offices in Bothell and Portland, announced the promotion of Jered Cady to vice president. Cady joined the agency 18 months ago. His assignments will now include business development for software sales and consulting for the agency’s Oregon, Washington, and Idaho regions

Mar 29, 2001

thinktank

Topel

Mayans

thinktank, a marketing company headquartered in Chicago, has opened a Seattle office. The company has added Rob Topel and Juan Mayans to its account management and creative teams. Topel’s past positions include business development manager at Parsons Brinckerhoff. Mayans worked for several multi-national, Fortune 500 corporations.

Kibble & Prentice

Gonzales

Robert Gonzales has joined the personal insurance division of Kibble & Prentice as an account executive. Kibble & Prentice is a financial services firm based in Seattle.

Tribal Connections

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing a $393,435 grant to the Tribal Connections project co-sponsored by the University of Washington and the National Library of Medicine. The collaboration will open access to electronic health information resources for Southwest Native American tribes by equipping over 100 American Indian communities with computers, software and technical support.

Jones Radio Networks

Edie Hilliard, who has served as president/general manager of Jones Broadcast Programming, Seattle, has been named to the new position of vice president/chief operating officer for Jones Radio Networks. Jones Media Networks also announced that it is consolidating its radio programming subsidiaries under the Jones Radio Networks banner, including Jones Broadcast Programming and the Jones Radio Network divisions. Jim LaMarca, senior vice president of the former Jones Broadcast Programming, has been named vice president/general manager for Music Dayparts and TotalRadio Consulting-Programming Services and will report to Hilliard. Jones Radio Networks serves over 5,000 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada, from production centers in Denver, Seattle and New York.

Cole & Weber/Red Cell

Cole & Weber/Red Cell, a full-service branding agency with offices in Seattle and Portland, has added the following 12 new hires to its interactive division: Stephanie Carlson, site builder; Patrick Brossard, developer; Sedora DeBondt, senior designer; Knox Gardner, usability specialist; Peter Gaucys, copywriter; Penny Gray, senior site builder; LeAnn Judd, producer; Christina Kelly, account supervisor; Shawn Kimsey, technical director; Gordy McElroy, quality assurance specialist; Dave Rezoski, developer; and Gina Tolentino, art director. Additionally, the Seattle office has hired Christy Bach as accounting coordinator; Krissa Glasgow, senior account executive; Sandy Malich, executive assistant; Willow Roberts, payroll/benefits manager; and Lesley Wikoff, electronic producer.

SIOR honors brokers, developers

art? Tom Grossi photo in r.e. mugs, Todd Stedman, too. Jeff Forsberg is the third.

It may have appeared broker Jim Klinger vanished a couple of years, but don't believe it. He bore down on work for a property buyer who didn't like tooting his horn very much.

It turns out Klinger's buyer, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, spent $110.99 million in 30 transactions in Seattle's South Lake Union area last year, according to a small line in a recent ad placed by Klinger's brokerage, Kidder Mathews & Segner. The $111 million bought 21.73 acres, the ad states. Thus, Allen paid an average of $117 per square foot.

Klinger handled all that buying for Allen's Vulcan Northwest, a volume that won Klinger this year's designation as industrial broker of the year from the local chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, a broker group.

Kidder's Chris Corr and Chris Langer of the Broderick Group were industrial runners-up.

Pacific Real Estate Partners principal Bill Pollard won as SIOR's office broker of the year with Tim O'Keefe of Colliers International and PREP's Steve Schwartz as runners-up.

Dave Sabey's Intergate.Seattle mega-data center in Tukwila won as industrial project of the year, followed by Benaroya Business Park-Auburn and Opus Northwest's Fife Landing.

Opus took the office development of the year for its Opus Center @ Union Station. Triad Development's rehab of Pier 70 and Wright Runstad & Co.'s downtown Bellevue high-rise named Key Center were the other two finalists.

Pinnacle Realty Management

Tom Grossi joined Pinnacle Realty Management, a Seattle-based, nationwide apartment management company, as a commercial investment manager in the firm's Seattle office. Pinnacle said Grossi has 10 years of experience in commercial real estate, and that he will work on both day-to-day property managing and on signing new commercial management contracts. Grossi previously worked as senior property manager for Opus Northwest, where he formed the firm's Bellevue property management group. Before Opus Grossi was with ProLogis Trust.

Puget Sound Properties

Jeff Forsberg rose to vice president at Puget Sound Properties, where he works as an industrial broker in the Kent Valley. Forsberg holds a law degree and has worked as a broker for seven years, the past three at Puget Sound Properties.

John L. Scott

Todd Stedman, John L. Scott Real Estate's relocation specialist, was promoted to vice president from director. Relocation means working with corporations in the moving their employees. "We act as an extension of corporate recruiting departments to serve the needs of their candidates, new hires or transferring employees," Stedman said. In the two years that Stedman has worked at John L. Scott, the relocation department has tripled its business, the company said.