Apr 17, 2008

KeyBank

KeyBank hired Lysa Barbano as an area retail leader in Tacoma. Barbano will oversee retail operations of the 14 South King County branches. She worked at Bank of America for 17 years.

Cruise West

Cruise West, a small-ship cruise line in Seattle, hired Dietmar Wertanzl as president and chief executive officer. Wertanzl was chief operating officer at Tauck World Discovery. He replaces Jeff Krida who retired in January.

Cairncross & Hempelmann

Seattle law firm Cairncross & Hempelmann hired Sandip Soli to the real estate team. Soli worked at Carney Badley Spellman and practices in commercial real estate transactions.

Hodgson/Meyers

Hodgson/Meyers, a full-service marketing and communications agency in Kirkland, hired Colleen Richardson as a production manager, Willem Buys as a production designer and Shaye Mitchell as an account coordinator/project manager. Richardson worked at Hacker Group, Buys worked with Kendall Ross and Mitchell was promoted from marketing project manager.

Capacity Commercial

Capacity Commercial, a Portland-based real estate company, has added Evan Bernstein to the brokerage team. He specializes in industrial leasing and property sales.

John L. Scott

John L. Scott sales associate David Barkman has been named managing broker of the Sammamish Plateau office. He has been a top-producing sales associate in the Bellevue Downtown office for more than 10 years. Pat Giles has joined as vice president of marketing. She managed marketing, the Internet, agent training and IT for 92 Coldwell Banker offices in California.

Ewing & Clark

Seattle-based nonprofit Provail will move its Wallingford headquarters to 12550 Aurora Ave N. by July 1. This puts Provail closer to its assembly and fabrication facility on 128th Street. The 15,000-square-foot building is occupied by the Washington State Employment Security Office. Provail serves people with all types of disabilities. Bob Meyer of Ewing & Clark was the leasing agent.

GVA Kidder Mathews

Lauren Powell has joined the Bellevue office of GVA Kidder Mathews, where she will specialize in office leasing and sales in the brokerage division.

Marcus & Millichap

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services named its top investment specialists for 2007 and Robert Sheppard in the Seattle office ranked No. 5 out of more than 1,300 nationwide. He facilitated transactions valued at $377 million last year. Sheppard joined Marcus & Millichap in 1993 and was promoted to senior vice president of investments in January.

Bellevue retail outlook April 22

The second part of the Downtown Bellevue Growth Series will be an outlook on retail. Nearly 1.5 million-square-feet of new retail space is scheduled to open in the next three years. The speakers will be Susie Detmer of Cushman & Wakefield and Jennifer Leavitt of Kemper Development. The event will be on April 22 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Westin Bellevue. Cost for members of the Bellevue Downtown Association is $25. Non-members will pay $35. To register go to http://www.bellevuedowntown.org.

REAPS meeting April 24

REAPS (Real Estate Association of Puget Sound) will meet on April 24 from 7 to 10 p.m. The first hour of the meeting will be a panel discussion called “Two New Laws Affecting Real Estate Investors.” The second hour with feature Hoan Do, a performance strategist from the Anthony Robbins Co. Networking starts at 6:15 p.m. in Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus. Cost is free for REAPS members and $15 for others. For information and registration see http://www.reapsweb.com.