Oct 04, 2002

Campagne

Campagne named Nicholas Wiltz general manager. Wiltz was most recently director of food and beverage at the Bellevue Club. The restaurant also promoted Esther Harding to manager of Cafe Campagne and named Radiance Bellavita to a new position of marketing director.

Seattle Aquarium Society

The Seattle Aquarium Society board of directors elected Kevin Blair, Brian Jannsen, Robert J. Pasterick and Peter Ward as new board members. Blair is vice president of Washington commercial banking at Bellevue's US Bancorp, Jannsen is the founder of Onyx Corp., Pasterick is vice president/controller at Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group and Ward is professor of geological sciences, zoology and curator of paleontology at the University of Washington.

Department of Labor and Industries

The Seattle office of the Washington Department of Labor and Industries has moved to a new location at 315 Fifth Ave. S. The new office is adjacent to the Metro bus tunnel, Sounder commuter rail and the Waterfront Trolley. The main phone number for the office has changed to (206) 515-2800.

West Coast Bank

Kristy Davis was named branch manager at West Coast Bank in Vancouver. Davis was previously the branch manager of West Coast Bank's Salmon Creek branch. West Coast Bancorp operates 44 offices in Oregon and Washington.

Hydro Environmental Resources

Jack Wynn, has resigned as president of Hydro Environmental Resources of Vancouver. Hydro's executive board named David Rosenberg, the company's current CEO, to the position of president and chief executive officer. Wynn will leave Hydro to become president and chairman of Garrett Western Hotel Management. Hydro is developing an electro-chemical hydrogen fuel reactor.

Nordstrom

Nordstrom has opened its 86th full-line store in Coral Gables, Fla. The 200,000-square foot store features three retail levels and is located at Village of Merrick Park. It is the third retail location for Nordstrom in Florida. As part of the opening festivities, Nordstrom held a gala benefit for United Way of Miami-Dade that is expected to raise $250,000 for United Way.

Connexion by Boeing

Connexion by Boeing named Beverly Wyse director of its newly formed deployment and installation organization. Wyse previously served as the director of program management for the Boeing 757 aircraft program. Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of The Boeing Co., is a provider of broadband data services to commercial and executive aircraft during flight.

Oct 03, 2002

Zebra Hill

Bellevue's Zebra Hill appointed Angela Walls as director of its new importing division. Walls will oversee the division and manage the company's association with Hong Kong-based Hutchinson Harbour Ring. Most recently, Walls was director of the import services department at Bensussen Deutsch & Associates in Woodinville.

Holland America

Holland America hired Kelly P. Wilson as assistant general counsel and Hans Rood as director of voyage products. Wilson was previously with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. Rood, who will manage the company's cruises in Europe, South America, Asia Pacific and Hawaii, has held previous positions at Cunard Line, Royal Caribbean and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

Noble House Hotels and Resorts

Yogi Hutsen was named chief operating officer at Kirkland-based Noble House Hotels and Resorts. Hutsen will oversee operations at the Kirkland company's 12 boutique resorts in the U.S. Hutsen was previously vice president of operations for the Washington and Oregon area at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.

Tully's Coffee

Tully's Coffee named Paul Curhan vice president of marketing and merchandising. Most recently, Curhan was director of international marketing and business development for Amazon.com and held previous positions with Starbucks and Haagen-Dazs.

London Controls

Frederic Moreau joined London Controls as a security sales representative. He will oversee design and implementation of card access, cctv and other security systems in the Western Washington area. Seattle-based London Controls, established in 1983, specializes in design, installation and support of communication and security systems.

Corps of Engineers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has scheduled an open house on Friday, Oct. 4, for the new field office of its Portland District Regulatory Branch in Eugene. The office, at 1600 Executive Parkway, will oversee permit and enforcement actions in Lane, Deschutes, Crook, Lake, Klamath, Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Coos and Curry counties. For information, call (541) 465-6877.

The Instrument Society of America

The Instrument Society of America named Jonny Branom of Branom Instrument president of its Seattle/Tacoma Section. The society also elected Jon Mathison of Advanced Industrial Automation vice president; Frank Kerns of Branom Instrument secretary, Bob O'Brien of Brett Associates treasurer and Walt Boyes of Spitzer-Boyes editor and trustee. The society, founded in 1945, fosters advancement in theory, design, manufacture and use of sensors, instruments, computers and systems for measurement and control.

Affordable housing supporters

Sam Anderson, Adrienne Quinn and Lorig Associates received Pedestal Awards for their efforts to create affordable housing. The awards are given yearly by the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County.

Anderson is executive director of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties, which teamed with the consortium and the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors to develop commercials on KOMO-TV that focused on the need for affordable housing and pushed legislation that aimed to ease the condominium construction defects liability crisis. Anderson also serves on Washington’s Affordable Housing Advisory Board.

Seattle-based Lorig, headed by Bruce Lorig, "often takes on projects that include an element of 'social good'," the consortium said. It has partnered with the Central Area Development Association, AIDS Housing of Washington, the King County Housing Authority, St. Andrew’s Housing Group and the Eastside Housing Association on complicated affordable housing projects, helping them to use their funds more efficiently. The firm worked on development of The Village at Overlake Station in Redmond and is working on concepts for teacher housing with the King County and Seattle housing authorities.

Quinn, a land-use lawyer with Buck & Gordon, moved to the Northwest in the mid-1990s and is board president of Plymouth Housing Group. As a member of the Mayor’s Citizen Advisory Committee, she helped shape the 2002 Seattle housing levy that voters recently approved. Plymouth Housing Group executive director Paul Lambros says she's so eager to volunteer that when he sends out an e-mail to his board asking for help, he often puts "do not respond to this" on the one to Quinn.

A look at Seattle, San Francisco, L.A.

Boeing's Colette Temmink, Vulcan's Ada Healey, Microsoft's Jose Oncina and other leading commercial real estate decision makers will discuss opportunities in the Seattle area at a half-day conference scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 15. The event is one of three days of conferences called the West Coast Networking Series, organized by CPN Conferences, an affiliate of New York-based Commercial Property News. A similar conference the next day in San Francisco will focus on opportunities there, followed by a conference Oct. 17 in Los Angeles. Temmink, Healey and others will talk about the long-term outlook here during the Seattle event's opening general session. One of two breakout sessions will address the multi-family market as a "bright side." Brokers Greg Laycock and Greg Wendelken, bankers Tracy Edgers and Brian Smalley, and developer Karen Anderson-Bittenbender will lead that session. The other breakout session will address how Seattle can attract more corporations, with brokerage managers Jeffrey Lyon and Jim Bowles, developer David Moore and EDC head Art Scheunemann leading that. For information, call Joanna Garnett at (646) 654-4590 or see www.cpnonline.com.

NW CFOs tell how they're coping

Chief financial officers from at least three major Northwest companies will talk about strategies involved in waiting for the economy to recover at an economic development event scheduled for Friday, Oct. 25. The Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County's quarterly update breakfast will run from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Elliott Grand Hyatt in downtown Seattle. Costco's Richard Galanti, Safeco's Chris Meade and Alaska Airlines' Brad Tilden, with Cell Therapeutics' Louis Bianco as a possible fourth, will discuss "Waiting for the Recovery." An EDC event flier says, "One group, perhaps more than any other, relentlessly grapples with the daily economic evidence in order to extrapolate a viable forecast for their business: corporate CFOs." For information, call (206) 389-8651 or see www.edc-sea.org.

HomeStreet Bank

Bob Pascal joined HomeStreet Bank in Seattle as vice president and residential construction loan manager. Pascal will arrange financing for land acquisitions and for development and construction of condos, town homes and detached single-family homes in the Portland and Puget Sound markets. The 28-year lender previously worked as vice president and investment manager for Weyerhaeuser Realty Investors in the Seattle and Portland areas. Pascal holds a BA from the University of Virginia and a law degree from Creighton University.

John L. Scott

Toai Nguyen and Mandy Holley became residential agents in John L. Scott Real Estate's Belltown office. Linda Kittelson joined the Kirkland office. Lynn Manning started in Des Moines, while Jessica Gatke did so in Burien. Additional new hires include: Cathy Steiner in Lynnwood Center, Thomas Nguyen in Lynnwood West, Clayton Walker in Redmond, Jennifer Scheiter and Thelma Corbin in Silverdale and Sandy Holstead in Mercer Island. Also: Krystina Slauson and Robert Kenney in Bellevue South, Linda Lee Caliman in Poulsbo, Marc Mignogna and Steven Kresser in Lakeside, Aaron Stafford in Kent, Michael Dayton in Monroe, Jerry Allensworth in Magnolia and Cassie Ridgeway in Lake Tapps.

Binswanger Puget Sound Properties

Tamir Ohayon was promoted to vice president at Binswanger Puget Sound Properties, which he joined in 1999 in south Seattle industrial leasing and sales.