Sep 01, 2010

BLRB Architects

BLRB Architects hired Gene Grulich to lead its historic preservation studio, allowing the firm to do more preservation work, including adaptive reuse. Grulich, a Washington architect for nearly four decades, has managed preservation of historic structures including The Granary at Fort Nisqually in Tacoma, West Point Light Station in Seattle, Alexander's Castle in Port Townsend and the Pantages Theatre in Tacoma. He was the founder and owner of GA+PS, an architecture firm focused on historic restoration and preservation projects, and had consulted for BLBR. He is managing the exterior refurbishment of Tacoma's Municipal Complex. Tacoma-based BLRB provides design services to educational, commercial and public clients.

Sparling

Sparling hired Greg Vail as project manager for electrical engineering in the Seattle office. He has 28 years of experience in design and construction of health care, commercial, military, institutional and industrial facilities. His expertise includes lighting, security systems, power quality analysis, office space design, value engineering, cost estimating and military facilities. He has worked on Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, the South Pavilion Expansion at St. Joseph Hospital in Tacoma and Northgate North in Seattle. He also was involved in more than 200 projects at Microsoft's corporate campus. Sparling provides electrical, technology, audiovisual, acoustical and lighting design services, and also has offices in San Diego, Portland and Houston.

BHC Consultants

BHC Consultants hired Ken Dahl as a senior structural engineer to strengthen its structural engineering services. Dahl has 28 years of experience on commercial, technical, industrial and institutional structures. His has worked around the world in many seismic zones, and he has managed several award-winning projects, including renovation of the University of Washington Hec Ed Pavilion. BHC is a locally owned engineering, planning and construction services firm serving the public sector. It employs 50 people.

MulvannyG2 Architecture

MulvannyG2 Architecture said Craig Davenport has returned to the firm as a principal for the Bellevue retail environments team, which includes domestic and international projects. He has 25-plus years of experience in hospitality, retail, educational facilities and corporate office buildings. He worked with MulvannyG2 for 4.5 years prior to leaving in 2007. After that, he worked with developer R.C. Hedreen Co. as senior manager of architecture and design. MulvannyG2 has more than 300 employees. Other offices are in Portland; Irvine, Calif.; Washington D.C.; and Shanghai.

Barking Frog at Willows Lodge

Barking Frog at Willows Lodge in Woodinville hired Matthew Davis as the new wine director and restaurant manager. Davis was wine director at Pearl Bar & Dining in Bellevue and has worked at O/8 Seafood Grill in Bellevue and Ray's Boathouse in Seattle.

Lane Powell

Scott Edwards has joined Lane Powell's Taxation Practice Group as the newest shareholder. His practice focuses on state and local tax, including appeals and litigation, tax refund claims and ruling requests. Edwards was previously chair of the State and Local Tax Practice at the Seattle office of Perkins Coie.

Northwest Center Kids

Northwest Center is opening a new child care center in King County's Chinook Building in downtown Seattle. The space is at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Terrace Street. It has five classrooms, a rooftop playground and an indoor “motor room” for children to play in. It will accommodate 60 children from infant through pre-kindergarten, with 20 percent of the spaces reserved for children whose families earn below 80 percent of the greater Seattle area median income. Children with developmental delays and disabilities will be given priority. Northwest Center provides Birth-to-Three Early Intervention Services for children with developmental delays, and was selected by King County as the childcare provider after a request for proposal process in 2009. The majority of tenant improvements were paid for by Seattle's Child Care Bonus Program.

Aug 31, 2010

Meeting Professionals International

The Tulalip Resort Casino announced Sam Samuelson, national sales manager of Tulalip Resort Casino, has been named the 2010 President's Award recipient by the Meeting Professionals International Washington State Chapter. Samuelson is director of industry alliance for the MPIWSC.

KeyBank

KeyBank promoted Mahnaz Eshetu to real estate lender in its community development group. She will be responsible for financing community development transactions in local markets throughout Washington. Eshetu joined KeyBank's Community Development group in 2003 as an economic development lender in Seattle.

Miller Nash

Law Firm Miller Nash hired Adrienne Jeffrey as counsel in the Trusts and Estates Practice Team in Seattle. Jeffrey has 30 years experience in all areas of estate planning, was with Holland & Knight and has been an adjunct professor of law at the Seattle University School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Law.

PSF Mechanical

Seattle's PSF Mechanical hired John Eldridge as an account executive, Connie Koch as payroll specialist and Justin Ramm as a design engineer. PSF is a commercial design-build mechanical firm and energy services company.

ProBuild Holdings

Denver-based ProBuild Holdings appointed Bill Myrick as chief executive officer, succeeding Paul Hylbert. Myrick has nearly 30 years of experience in the home building industry and has been with the company for three years. ProBuild, one of the nation's largest professional building materials suppliers, operates multiple stores in the Puget Sound area.