Jul 09, 2009

Grubb & Ellis

Bill Condon has been named managing director of the Grubb & Ellis Seattle office, effective immediately. He will manage commercial real estate services in Seattle and continue to serve his industrial brokerage clients. Condon started his career in 2003 at Colliers International.

CB Richard Ellis

The sale of Lexington Heights, a 252-unit apartment complex in Renton closed recently. Los Angeles-based FSC Realty purchased the complex from BlackRock for $26 million, or $103,174 per unit. The complex is on a hillside above Lake Washington. Jon Hallgrimson and Frank Bosl of CB Richard Ellis represented BlackRock.

CREW event on health care

The Commercial Real Estate Women will hold its July luncheon today at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave., with a panel talking about health care projects and how they may impact the region's economy. The panel will be Alison Garr of Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital, Mike Denney of Multicare Health System and Todd Johnson of Seattle Children's. They will look at master planning, drivers for campus design and systemwide integration. For more information and registration see http://www.crewseattle.org.

NAIOP candidate forum

The July 15 breakfast meeting of NAIOP will be a candidate forum with Dow Constantine, Ross Hunter, Susan Hutchison, Fred Jarrett and Larry Phillips. They are all running for King County executive. David Postman of Vulcan Inc. will moderate. The event starts at 8 a.m. at the Seattle Sheraton. For information see http://www.naiopwa.org.

CBA/CCIM golf tournament July 21

The CBA/CCIM Invitational Golf Tournament will be Tuesday, July 21, at the Golf Club at Redmond Ridge, with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. To register contact CBA at (425) 820-3348 or (800) 275-2522 or see the Web site at http://www.commercialmls.com.

KCTS 9

After a national search, KCTS 9 has hired Beth Savage as its new vice president of development. Savage has 17 years of experience and has worked for KETC/Channel 9, St. Louis PBS, Saint Louis Science Center and Southern Illinois University.

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson

The Seattle law firm of Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson hired Philip Bednar as an attorney. Bednar worked as a certified public accountant before law school and was a law clerk in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Kinnear Park

Lower Kinnear Park is becoming revitalized. Friends of Lower Kinnear Park or FOLKPark, a recently formed community group chaired by Debi Frausto, wants to secure further improvements with funding from city grants and other community resources. FOLKPark is seeking volunteers, including a webmaster, to support its activities. For more information, contact Phil Prahst at philprahst@hotmail.com.