Sep 27, 2002

Seattle Goodwill

Seattle Goodwill has been awarded a $30,000 grant from the Boeing Co. The grant will be used to support the organization's Support and Training Result In Valuable Employees Program, which provides training and placement services for participants and on-going support to employers and employees. Also, the company named Stuart C. Allen to its board of directors. Allen is currently a partner at Lane Powell Spears Lubersky.

Carney Badley Spellman

Nicki D. McCraw joined Carney Badley Spellman as of counsel. Her practice will focus on employment law and litigation. Most recently, McCraw investigated employment-related complaints and advised on employment liability issues at the University of Washington.

Artifex Business Identity Development

Artifex Business Identity Development named Ryan Anderson as a 3D media designer. Anderson will work with 3D design and print media projects. Artifex is a Web development and graphic design firm based in Tacoma.

National Software Testing Labs

National Software Testing Labs of Conshohocken, Penn., has opened a new testing facility in Bellevue and named Edward Shanahan lab manager. The new facility follows recent expansion in Taiwan and Japan. National Software Testing is an authorized testing facility for Microsoft's Powered by Windows CE, Pocket PC and Smartphone logo programs.

Sightward

Will Hodgman was named president and CEO of Sightward. Hodgman served as executive vice president of measurement services for NetRatings. The Bellevue company recently secured an additional $2.5 million in funding from Northwest Venture Associates. Sightward is a predictive analytics software and services provider.

West Coast Bank

West Coast Bank named Michele Freeman assistant vice president and branch manager for its Salmon Creek branch. Freeman most recently served as branch manager for First Independent Bank. West Coast Bancorp is a bank holding company, with 44 offices in Oregon and Washington.

Cognigen Networks

Cognigen Networks appointed Richard B. Rime to the new position of managing director for sales and marketing. Rime was most recently director for business development at AAA Washington. Cognigen is an Internet-enabled marketer of telecommunication services and related products, based in Seattle

Sep 26, 2002

Noble House Hotels and Resorts

Yogi Hutsen has been named chief operating officer at Noble House Hotels and Resorts. Hutsen will assume operational responsibility for the company's 12 upscale boutique resorts in the U.S. Most recently, Hutsen served as vice president of operations for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, with oversight of the company’s 11 properties in Washington and Oregon. Noble House is owned by Pat Colee and based in Kirkland.

Seattle Goodwill

Grand opening events for a new Goodwill store in Lynnwood begins today and continues through the weekend. The new store is located at 4027 198th Street S.W. and is operated by the Seattle Goodwill organization. The new store, with 35 employees and 19,500 square feet of retail space, replaces the Lynnwood Goodwill store on 52nd Avenue Southwest, which has operated since 1986. The new Lynnwood location will have an attended donation center.

Boeing

The Boeing Co. and FlightSafety International have signed an agreement that will allow Boeing to acquire all of FSI's interests in FlightSafety Boeing Training International which has been run as a joint venture for aviation training since 1997. Currently, FSBTI has 800 employees in 21 locations worldwide operating 70 full-flight simulators and numerous fixed-base and maintenance training simulators. Boeing will call the new subsidiary Boeing Training International and the headquarters will remain in Seattle. Boeing plans to keep the current management team in place with Pat Gaines continuing as president.

Metropolitan Improvement District

David J. Dillman has been named director of the Metropolitan Improvement District and Economic Development. Dillman will oversee program management and policy issues and help promote business growth and retention in the Seattle downtown area the organization serves. Dillman was partner at Transition Strategies Group where he facilitated rural community development initiatives on behalf of the Economic Development Council of Snohomish County.

Mariner Supply

Mariner Supply named Kal Harris to manage its commercial marine division. Harris was previously with Marco. He will work closely with commercial customers to solve problems in net-hauling, pot-hauling, lifting and anchor handling, along with mooring operations. Mariner Supply, based in Bainbridge Island, also operates Go2marine, an online site that offers companies direct access to its product database.

City of Richland

The International Economic Development Council presented the city of Richland with two Economic Development Awards for its newsletter and Web site. The city's newsletter is sent to 3,500 local businesses and community leaders. The Web site is a project developed by the city's economic development department's two-member staff.

Cutter & Buck

Cutter & Buck has moved to a new headquarters in Fremont at 701 N. 34th St. The company will continue to operate its distribution center in Renton for warehouse, shipping and embroidery production. The company has also been named a finalist for the annual Warehouse of the Year award sponsored by Warehousing Management Magazine.

Seattle Times

This week, the Seattle Times started including a new newsmagazine delivered to customers in Snohomish County called the Times of Snohomish County. The newsmagazine will be a part of the paper's Wednesday edition. John de Leon will lead the news bureau and John Haslam will lead the advertising department for the special section.

A legal look at GMA

A two-day conference on challenges and solutions facing the state's Growth Management Act is scheduled for Nov. 7 and 8 at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in downtown Seattle. Law Seminars International put together the event, which the Seattle legal education group says will hear from developers, government officials, attorneys, planning staff, transportation consultants and others involved in growth planning. The conference's faculty will include Joe Tovar of the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board, Dave Williams of the Association of Washington Cities and numerous lawyers, led by program co-chairs Amy Kosterlitz of Buck & Gordon and Roger Pearce of Foster Pepper & Shefelman. Presenters also include Heather Ballash of the state Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development, Sue Carlson of the city of Renton, David Markley of Transportation Solutions Inc. and King County Councilman Rob McKenna. For registration and additional information, call (206) 621-1938 or (800) 854-8009 or see http://www.lawseminars.com.

Bentley Properties

The Properties East residential sales office in Evans Plaza on 140th Avenue Northeast in Bellevue has sold to Bentley Properties, a subsidiary of Bellevue-based America's Home Caretakers. Properties East agents Mary Stumph, Romeo Puluqi, Sandra Boury and Eleanor Griffin now work as Bentley associates. Bentley also hired seven additional agents: Austin Farrell, Julie Harris, Sam Mossafer, Ann Semler, Phyllis Johnson, Dane Giraldin and Manard Overall. Brian Graves heads Bentley as designated broker.

Windermere

Mija Hamilton returned as a sales associate in Windermere Real Estate's Ballard office after two years in Milan, Italy. Hamilton worked in the office from 1996 to 2000. Richard Taylor rejoined the office, too, after a year in France. His first run in the Ballard office ran from 1992 to 2001.

The charity corner

Starting this week, People & Companies will periodically run notices of charitable activities by people and organizations involved in real estate in the area. Don't let your good deeds go unmentioned, particularly if you are with a smaller organization and we haven't heard from you before. Just drop a quick note to joe@djc.com.

• The National Association of Industrial and Office Properties' local chapter recently conducted its annual community enhancement project. This year, some 200 volunteers from the developer-and-broker association cleaned up and restored the 40-acre Des Moines Beach Park, a prime place for watching fall salmon runs. The volunteers installed 700 feet of split-rail fencing and put in 1,200 plants, including shrubs, ground cover and trees, to improve salmon habitat. They built three viewing platforms along the stream banks and painted six historical buildings, including the senior center. All in one day. "With budget cuts closing 20 King County parks this year, we are hopeful that more organizations will follow NAIOP's lead and invest in keeping their local parks clean and beautiful," said Des Moines park and facilities manager Bill Miller.

• Equity Office Properties Trust gave the United Negro College Fund what the fund calls a "significant discount" in rent to allow the non-profit scholarship organization to lease 2,500 square feet in the Bank of America Tower in downtown Seattle as its Northwest regional office. "We are thrilled with the subsidized lease. It will free-up further dollars for our Northwest Scholarship Fund," sad Joan Houston, the fund's Northwest area director.

• Windermere's Ballard office's annual Windermere bowling tournament at Leilani Lanes raised more than $10,000 that will go to the Ballard Boys & Girls Club, the Ballard Family Center, the Northend Emergency Fund, the Northwest Senior Center and Ballard elementary schools. Sponsors included First Horizon Home Loans, Clearpoint Appraisal, First American Title, Chicago Title, Washington Title, Wells Fargo, Ballard Escrow, US Bank, Commonwealth Title, Ambiance Home Furnishings and Washington Mutual Inc.