Jun 27, 2008

The Resort at the Mountain

Coastal Hotel Group hired Paul Bosch as executive chef of The Resort at The Mountain, a golf and meeting resort at the Western base of Mount Hood in Oregon. Bosch has been commissary manager at Elephants Delicatessen, executive chef at Southwest Washington Medical Center and restaurant/sous chef at Skamania Lodge.

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Virginia Mason Medical Center promoted Katerie Chapman to vice president. Chapman was administrative director of perioperative and anesthesia services. She has 13 years of health care experience and has been with Virginia Mason since 2000.

Wentworth, Hauser and Violich

Steven Rhone, CEO of Wentworth, Hauser and Violich, a wholly owned subsidiary of Seattle's Laird Norton Co., announced he has resigned after leading the San Francisco-based company for five years. Kurt Hauser, a member of the firm's board of directors, will serve as acting CEO. The change is effective immediately. Rhone said a recent decision by the board of directors to permanently relocate the entire executive management team to San Francisco led to his decision. WHV will continue to maintain a Seattle office.

Jun 26, 2008

4Culture

4Culture, King County's cultural services agency, hired Sara Edwards as communications manager. Edwards worked at Seattle's On the Boards for six years. She replaces Lara Holman Garritano in the position, who left 4Culture in April to move to Colorado.

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Virginia Mason Medical Center hired Tony Wright as vice president of human resources. Wright spent 10 years in Atlanta, the last two as principal of The Wright Way, an HR consulting firm.

WWU

George Pierce, vice president for business and financial affairs at Western Washington University, will retire in December. Pierce has held the post since 1989 and led the division through major projects such as campus master planning. A national search for Pierce's successor will begin soon.

Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick, a global public relations firm, hired John Beale as executive vice president of the firm's Global Technology Practice. Beale will be based in Seattle and be responsible for developing new business. He has 20 years of global experience in different technology segments.

Coast Sperry Van Ness

Sperry Van Ness of Irvine, Calif., signed an area development agreement with Tom Hoban and Shawn Hoban, owners of Coast Real Estate Services in Everett. The new firm will be called Coast Sperry Van Ness. Tom Hoban, managing director of Coast Sperry Van Ness, said this will help the firm continue to grow its brokerage and leasing services. Sperry Van Ness has more than 960 advisors in over 150 locations. Todd Thompson has joined Coast Sperry Van Ness as a commercial real estate advisor and agent, specializing in commercial sales and leasing in the Puget Sound region. He spent several years in the land development and investment research business. Shauna Brennan has joined as an advisor and associate broker. She was a corporate lawyer.

Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield hired Theddi Wright Chappell as managing director to lead the firm's national Green Building & Sustainability Valuation and Advisory Practice, and its Valuation Services Group in Seattle. She has been a consultant for valuation and advisory related projects throughout the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe, and is a LEED accredited professional. Chappell will focus on the costs and benefits of sustainable properties in the U.S. She is the Ambassador of Sustainable Initiatives for the Appraisal Institute. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Chappell was CEO of Beaverton, Ore.-based Sustainable Values, Inc. She provided consulting services in valuation and investment analysis, feasibility of urban projects and assessments of the potential impacts on value of sustainable development.

Solution Partners NW/WRE

The Bellevue-based real estate sales and marketing firm Builder Sales Group is operating under the new name of Solution Partners NW/WRE. Principals Barbara Allen and William Donahoe have worked as a team for more than 20 years. Solution Partners NW/WRE specializes in multifamily and single-family community sales and marketing, and acts as an extension of their clients' development teams by staffing and managing on-site sales. Solution Partners NW/WRE was responsible for more than 1,600 sales last year.

Seabrook

Seabrook founder Casey Roloff said the beach town he is developing on the Olympic Peninsula is seeing increasing home sales this year and said vacation rentals are “brisk.” He said 117 homes have sold and homes in the first oceanfront phase are now available. Beach cottage sales are up 50 percent in last 12 months, according to Walker John, Seabrook's chief financial officer. As of the first quarter of the year, vacation rentals saw increases of 300 percent over 2007's first quarter. The town has Nantucket-style cottages as well as retail on 300 acres. More than 450 homes could be built in the next five years. Fourteen of the 45 lots in the oceanfront phase are now available. They range in price from $1 million to $2 million. Non-oceanfront cottages start at $399,000.

Spokane conference on leases

The Advanced Commercial Leases conference will be held July 17 and 18 at the Red Lion Hotel at The Park in Spokane. It is designed for people involved in landlord/tenant relationships and who deal with lease negotiation, drafting, defaults, construction defects, valuation and tax considerations. For more information and registration, call the Seminar Group at (206) 463-4400 or toll free at (800) 574-4852.