Oct 18, 2001

Naegeli Reporting

Lewis

Lisa Lewis is the new office manager of the Seattle office of Naegeli Reporting. Lewis will be responsible for day-to-day business, sales and technical operations for the Seattle area. The company provides court reporting, videography and videoconferencing services with offices in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.

Delta Computer Systems

Riddle

David O. Riddle was appointed Southeastern U.S. region sales manager at Delta Computer Systems. Delta is located in Vancouver.

Country Insurance & Financial Services

Miller

Ben J. Miller has been named an agent for Country Insurance & Financial Services. Miller will serve customers from an office in Everett at 909 S.E. Everett Mall Way.

Lane Powell Spears Lubersky

Tober

Lane Powell Spears Lubersky partner Gary Tober was named secretary to the recent San Francisco Congress of the International Fiscal Association on Taxation of Income Derived from Electronic Commerce. Tober's paper prepared for the conference, "Taxation of Electronic Commerce," formed a basis for many of the discussions on electronic commerce transactions and income characterization.

Alliance for Education

The Paul G. Allen Virtual Education Foundation has awarded a $195,000 grant to the Alliance for Education. The grant will be used to further fund Cleveland High School's Infotech Infusion and Infotech Academy projects. The project's goals are to integrate computer technology into the school by offering college-prep curriculum with a focus on the field of technology. The Paul G. Allen Virtual Education Foundation seeks to advance the development and growth of online and distance learning.

Waldron & Co.

Waldron & Co. has formed a strategic alliance with Santa Clara, Calif.-based Saratoga Institute. The Saratoga Institute provides workforce measurement and product benchmarking services. Waldron & Co. provides human resources consulting services, with offices in Seattle, Portland and Phoenix. It will represent Saratoga's services and products in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah. Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska and Hawaii. Waldron & Co. (wwwwaldronhr.com) will present two programs by the Saratoga Institute on Oct. 24 in Seattle.

Columbia Bank

Columbia Bank opened a new branch at 1102 Martin Luther King Jr Way in Tacoma. A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held October 25 officiated by Columbia Bank president Melanie Dressel and branch manager Julie Borell. The Martin Luther King Jr Way branch is the bank's 33rd branch

Opus Northwest

Wieneke

Opus Northwest landed Richard Wieneke from Kennedy and Associates Real Estate Council. Wieneke was a Kennedy partner. He worked there from 1981 until this year, leaving as senior vice president responsible for acquisition and development of large office, residential and mixed-use projects in metropolitan areas across the country. Kennedy is a Seattle-based pension and investment advisor. Bellevue-based Opus, one of the area's most active office and industrial developers, hired Wieneke as a senior real estate director in its Seattle office. Wieneke will focus on urban development opportunities in both Seattle and Bellevue that include office, residential, mixed-use and private-public projects, Opus said. Wieneke is a Washington State University economics graduate and he holds an MBA from the University of Oregon.

Santos

Also at Opus PJ Santos was promoted to a real estate manager post. Opus said Santos worked on Sammamish Parkplace and Opus Eastpointe, both in Issaquah, as a real estate representative, and he now manages Opus Crossing in Federal Way and is working on other projects.

In addition, Opus hired Tom Cody as real estate director in the firm's Portland office. Cody most recently worked as vice president for D.W. Sivers, a Portland development company. Cody will work on Opus projects in the Portland area called Southwest Center, Cornell West, Opus/205 Distribution Center, Bridgeport Village (aka the Durham Quarry site) and Columbia Gorge Corporate Center.

Kennedy Associates

Kennedy Associates played a role in a $34.7 million construction loan recently issued for a new W Hotel in downtown San Diego. The 19-story hotel will total 263 rooms. Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group of New York arranged the loan, funded by Multi-Employer Development Partners and Chadwick-Saylor Capital Management. Kennedy manages Multi-Employer, a $525 million development joint venture with publicly traded real estate companies formed in 1999. Gatehouse Capital Corp. is the W Hotel developer.

Vancouver YMCA venture wins award

The Vancouver Housing Authority teamed with the Clark County YMCA to develop an innovative combination of 296 affordable apartments atop a new Y. The apartments are called Springbrook Village. The National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials liked the result enough to give it a 2001 Award of Excellence in Administrative Innovation. The partnership between the housing authority and the Y is the first of its kind in the nation, the association said. "The collaboration added affordable housing stock, gave low-income people opportunities to grow personally and in their family lives, and created a quality recreation facility for the entire community."

Harbor Properties

Three retailers opened at the newly construction northern half of the Harbor Steps apartment complex in downtown Seattle: Holistic Tao, Art of Illustration and SeattleCafe.com. Holistic Tao, part of the Dahn Center of health outlets, provides full-service yoga facilities, including meditation workshops and personal discovery tours. Scott McCallum's Art of Illustration sells original paintings that people have seen in books, magazines, calendars, ads and the like. SeattleCafe is a combined Internet cafe and art gallery that plans to also offer teleconferencing suites.

Law seminar on leasing

Law Seminars International will hold its 13th annual Advanced Commercial Real Estate Leases conference on Dec. 10 and 11 at the Renaissance Madison Hotel in downtown Seattle. Brokers and lawyers will address the needs of landlords, tenants, lenders, brokers and lawyers. Presentations will include basic concepts as well as sophisticated nuances and practical suggestions. For information, call Nina Milligan at (206) 621-1938 or see http://www.lawseminars.com/htmls/seminars/01aclwa.

Windermere Real Estate

Five John L. Scott-Madison Park agents jumped to Windermere Real Estate's Wall Street office, which also hired another six sales associates. Suzanne Charnos, Stacie Ottman, Samantha Patterson, Dan Petesch and Liz Totten came from John L. Scott's Madison Park office. Kyle Ryan came from Coldwell Banker Bain. Kinam Sohn was a practicing CPA. Scott Trotten worked previously with Infinite Possibilities Academy. Deborah Young came from Young and Associates. Windermere identifies Michael Galloway as an experienced commercial broker and Doug McLeod as new to real estate.

Prudential MacPherson's

Amanda Hoffman became an agent in Prudential MacPherson's Auburn office. Shegufa Haubrich, Kim Maynard, Heidi Hanson and Patricia Lu joined the residential agency's Greenlake office. Dustyn Edler, Marla Pierce, Barbara McMahon, Jay Lind and Tom Callaghan now work as agents in the firm's Lynnwood office. The Seattle North office hired Cynthia O'Hara as assistant manager and Theodore Payton as agent.

Keller Williams Realty

McKnight

Karen McKnight was promoted to team leader for Keller Williams Realty's Bellevue office, to provide training, coaching and recruiting. McKnight was an agent. The 17-year veteran of residential sales passed Keller Williams' 10-step Recruit/Select Process training program. Keller Williams said for the year 2000 she was named among the "100 most powerful women in real estate."