May 14, 2010

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

The Seattle office of regional law firm Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt hired Davin Chin and Scarlett Hunter as associates. Chin will practice in the Intellectual Property Group and Hunter will focus on clients in the area of product liability. Chin specializes in drafting and prosecuting patents in the electrical and software fields and is a registered professional engineer. Hunter is a former Schwabe summer associate.

Swedish

Swedish, a regional nonprofit health care provider, hired Amir Bastawrous, a colon and rectal surgeon; Izabel Belem, a pediatric intensivist; Namou Kim, a head and neck cancer surgeon; Arthur Lam, a neuroanesthesiologist; Mark Tomski, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician; and Suzanne Steinman, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon.

Biotechnology & Biomedical Association

The Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association hired H. Stewart Parker as its commercialization consultant. Parker served as president, chief executive officer and director of Targeted Genetics.

May 13, 2010

CB Richard Ellis

Bruce Francis was named by CB Richard Ellis to oversee its West Coast Debt & Equity Finance practice. He is based in Phoenix. Six finance professionals were named to regional leadership posts. They will work with local market leaders and mentor brokers. Francis has worked in real estate debt and equity for insurance companies, pension funds, banks, government-sponsored enterprises and Wall Street.

Grubb & Ellis

DCT Industrial, a publicly traded company, has picked Grubb & Ellis to lease seven Seattle-area industrial properties with 1.1 million square feet. Bill Condon, managing director of the Seattle office, will be joined on the leasing team by Matt McGregor and Andrew Hitchcock. The properties are 95 percent leased. They include the O'Brien Business Park, Van Doren's Landing Shaw Industries and Sea-Pac buildings, and Seattle Bike Supply, all in Kent; Algona Business Park Buildings A and B in Algona; and a building at 800 S.W. 27th St. in Renton. AMB Property also hired the Seattle office to market four industrial buildings totaling 1.3 million square feet.

OfficeSpace.com

Seattle-based OfficeSpace.com has added two features to its website: a year-to-date absorption calculator and the ability to create more defined submarket reports. OfficeSpace says it logs about 4,200 user sessions each business day.

Keller Williams Realty

Tina Duran is a new agent in Keller Williams Realty's Seattle Metro West Market Center in West Seattle. She has owned multiple properties. The office has more than 60 associates.

Facebook

The Internet marketing tool provider RealBird said its single property listing websites are now integrated with Facebook. Agents can create a Facebook page for their RealBird single property website, and invite sellers and potential buyers to “like” that property. This will inform them of price changes, open houses, photos and other updates. RealBird said its service costs $99 a year.

ULI program on infrastructure

Former Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy will talk about how communities can leverage infrastructure into other investments at the Seattle Urban Land Institute's May 25 breakfast at the Grand Hyatt, 721 Pine St. ULI said as mayor Murphy initiated a public-private partnership that leveraged more than $4.5 billion in economic development. Registration begins at 7 a.m., and the program starts at 7:30. Cost is $25-$70. Go to seattle.uli.org or call 1 (800) 321-5011 to register.

Global Partnerships

Global Partnerships, a Seattle-based nonprofit that invests in microfinance programs in Latin America, hired Mark Coffey as chief investment officer. Coffey was president of ShoreBank Pacific and has 20 years of leadership experience in banking and commercial lending.

Parker, Smith & Feek

Parker, Smith & Feek hired Gregor Hodgson in the commercial insurance department as a vice president and account executive. Hodgson spent the past 17 years at Kibble and Prentice, another regional insurance broker.

Washington Federal Savings

For the first time in 25 years, Washington Federal Savings is updating its company image and launching a new brand identity. The bank is shortening its name to Washington Federal and re-branding branches recently acquired from both Horizon Bank and First Mutual Bank. New signs are being installed at many locations, including 15 branches in the Seattle area.