Nov 07, 2002

Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers

The Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers named Catherine Hillerman group sales manager and Mario Busquets and LeAnne Williams sales managers in its Seattle sales management team. Hillerman was group sales manager for the Hilton Corp. Busquets was desk guest service manager for the Sheraton Seattle and Williams served as a sales manager at the Embassy Suites Hotel.

Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo named Anthony Donovan, Marc Mohagen and Robert Raile as business bankers to serve Eastside customers. Donovan previously worked with Columbia Bank, G.E. Capital and US Bank; Mohagen previously worked for the Bank of Washington and US Bank; and Raile worked for Bank of America’s Commercial Banking Group. All three will be based at the Wells Fargo Eastside Banking Center in Bellevue.

Ace Hardware of Anacortes

Ace Hardware of Anacortes has received a U.S. Small Business Administration loan through the Evergreen Community Development Association. The store, established in 1979, will use the loan to purchase its building in Anacortes. The Evergreen Community Development Association is a private nonprofit organization providing SBA financing in Alaska, Washington and northwest Oregon.

KNCB Dave

Nicole Kraft is the new media coordinator, Emily Carlson is the new production artist and Erik Mickelson is a new account coordinator for public relations at KNCB Dave. Carlson and Mickelson are former interns at the agency and Carlson is a recent graduate of Pacific Lutheran University. KNCB Dave is a marketing, advertising and public relations agency in Seattle.

Ohana

Ohana, a specialty fish market, has opened in Kirkland Parkplace. The market will feature fresh fish, scallops and crab in downtown Kirkland. Ohana is owned by Greg Caluya, an 18-year veteran of Pike Place Fish. Ohana is located across from the QFC at Kirkland Place, next to Hoffman's Bakery.

Northwest Suites & Housing Services

Caple

Dave Caple was promoted to president of Northwest Suites & Housing Services in Redmond, reporting to CEO Brenda Handley. He was chief operating officer. Handley said the promotion recognizes Caple's role in the firm's transition "from an interim housing provider to a full service provider of corporate housing and housing services," such as finding furniture for clients to rent or buy. "When the hospitality industry screeched to a halt in the wake of the Sept. 11 tragedy, Caple led the organization through required reductions in force and other business challenges while keeping employee morale and productivity high," the company said.

UW's DeLisle to speak to economists

James DeLisle, director of the University of Washington's Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies, will speak at the next lunch meeting of the Seattle Economists Club, scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 13. The event will start at noon at Ivar's Acres of Clams on Pier 54 in downtown Seattle. DeLisle will speak on "The Boom and Bust of the National and Seattle Real Estate Economy: Sync or Swim?" For information, call (206) 618-7030.

Reverse Mortgage Association

Sarah Hulbert of Seattle Mortgage Co. was named co-chair of the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that promotes use of reverse mortgages by seniors. Association members sign a code of ethical conduct. Reverse mortgages allow homeowners older than 61 to take some of the equity back out of their houses tax-free. The association predicts volume will increase by 20 to 25 percent in the coming years as more baby boomers reach the qualifying age and as they learn more about reverse mortgages. Hulbert, who heads national reverse mortgage lending at Seattle Mortgage, entered the reverse mortgage industry in early 1992 as senior marketing rep for Providential Home Income Plan in San Francisco. She joined Seattle Mortgage in 2000. She co-chairs the association with James Mahoney, CEO of Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corp. of Irvine, Calif., the nation’s largest originator and servicer of reverse mortgages.

Land supply, housing workshop Dec. 11

A morning-long workshop on the limited supply of developable land in King County and the shortage of affordable housing in King County is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 11, in downtown Seattle. The Housing Partnership and the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County will hold the event from 8 a.m. to noon in the Union Square ballroom, at Sixth and University. "The buildable lands process has given us a detailed picture of the potential supply of various types of housing in King County," the organizers said. "What the study did not tell us is how that capacity gets turned into homes that people will want to buy or rent. We will compare likely future demand for different types of housing with the capacity to build it." For information, call (425) 453-5123.

New crew to lead CREW

Rush

Architect Shawn Rush was elected 2003 president for Commercial Real Estate Women Seattle. Next year's other 2003 board leaders are president-elect Helen Wattley Ames of Joshua Green Corp., treasurer Peggy Emerson. Also on the board are: Lori Hill of Cushman & Wakefield, Carleen Kinch of CB Richard Ellis, Linda Larabee-Dawson of Investco Management Services, Bob MacMillan of Moss & Co., Lori Mason Curran of Vulcan, Rebecca McIntyre of the University of Washington real estate office, and Gayle Wilder of G. Wilder & Associates.

Windermere

Sarah Burton became a sales associate in Windermere Real Estate's Capitol Hill office. Burton was previously an associate broker with Coldwell Banker in Bend, Ore. Linda Page joined the residential agency's Queen Anne office, coming from John L. Scott Real Estate. Page's background includes work in title insurance, mortgage loans and appraisals. Linda Connors became a sales associate in the Wall Street office. She was managing editor with Peanut Butter Publishing in Seattle.