Dec 26, 2013

JLL adds David Otis

Otis

David Otis will join Jones Lang LaSalle's capital markets team as a vice president in the Seattle office. Otis was with the Irvine, Calif., office of Ernst & Young, where he worked as a manager in construction and real estate services. Otis has worked at global brokerage DTZ and Voit Real Estate Services, and he has closed more than $250 million in office and hotel sales. Jones Lang LaSalle has more than 300 employees in the region and more than 1,000 offices in 70 countries.

NAIOP shows Runstad Fellows' film

The Washington chapter of NAIOP will show a documentary on the changing nature of cities put together by affiliate fellows from the University of Washington's Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at 7 a.m. Jan. 15 at Four Seasons Seattle. There will be a panel discussion with Lisa Picard of Skanska USA, Gabriel Grant of HAL Real Estate Investments, Ken Yocom of UW's Department of Landscape Architecture, Kelly Hogg of CBRE, Alvaro Jimenez of Security Properties and filmmaker Eric Becker. For information, or to register, visit: http://bit.ly/1a4HIQL

FHLB helps fund 14 projects

Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle has given $5.5 million in Affordable Housing Program funds to 14 projects, with a total of 640 units of low-income housing in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Utah. Six of the projects are in Washington, and they received a total of $2.6 million in funds. Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle is member-owned and serves more than 330 financial institutions, providing subsidies to buy, build or renovate low-income units.

SP Plus gets new West Coast VP

Steven Aiello, senior vice president of operations for the parking, transportation and logistics company SP Plus Corp., will head operations in the Pacific Northwest, western Canada and northern California. Aiello will work out of the San Francisco office, and he is the first senior vice president to be based in northern California. He was SP Plus' senior vice president for New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. SP Plus provides services to property owners.

Un-Cruise Adventures

Russell

Voss

Seattle-based Un-Cruise Adventures promoted Captain Tim Voss to vice president of technical operations and Captain Jill Russell to vice president of nautical operations. Both work in the Seattle office at Fishermen's Terminal. Ship masters on eight vessels will report directly to Russell, who also oversees on-board departments and shoreside operations. Voss oversees technical operations including engineering, refits, shipyard projects, regulatory compliance, inventory control and purchasing.

Opus Bank

Opus Bank has appointed Norman B. Rice, president and CEO of The Seattle Foundation and former mayor of Seattle, to the board of directors.

Arup

Duran

Spencer

Moellenberndt

In Seattle, Arup promoted Anne Marie Moellenberndt to associate, and hired Kirk Stinebaugh and Daniel Spencer as mechanical engineers and Sandy Duran as a marketing specialist. Moellenberndt joined Arup in 2007 and has 11 years of mechanical engineering and design experience. She has worked on civic, commercial, mixed-use and public buildings, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus. Stinebaugh has five years of experience in mechanical system design and sustainability, and was previously with Interface Engineering. Spencer holds a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Mississippi State University and a master's in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland. He is working on the Pike Place Market PC-1 project. Duran has 10 years of marketing and business development experience in architecture, engineering and construction. Arup is an engineering and consulting firm.

Bristol

Woods

Terrell

The Bristol Alliance of Companies said Joe Terrell, its president and chief executive officer, will retire at year's end. He will be replaced by Travis Woods, who has been with Bristol for 18 years and who has led Bristol Engineering Services Corp., a member of the Bristol Alliance. John Blees was named chief operating officer of Bristol Engineering Services. Blees has been with Bristol for 10-plus years. Terrell joined Bristol in 1996. Under his leadership, it has grown to eight companies with more than 300 employees. It provides construction, engineering, range and unexploded ordnance response work, and environmental and remediation work. The Bristol Alliance are subsidiaries of Bristol Bay Native Corp., a regional Alaska Native Corporation with annual revenues approaching $2 billion.

USKH

Noble

USKH architecture and engineering firm hired Meredith Noble as a funding specialist in Spokane. In Washington, she focuses on transportation projects, water and wastewater systems, stormwater management and architectural projects, and in Alaska on transportation projects and community, maintenance and public safety facilities. She is a 2012 graduate of Gonzaga University in Spokane. Prior to joining USKH, she owned a consulting business.

Sparling

Croft

Adam Croft, an audiovisual designer with Sparling, earned the Certified Technology Specialist credential from InfoComm International for audiovisual professionals. Sparling is a technology, audiovisual, electrical, acoustical and lighting design firm with offices in Lynnwood, Portland and San Diego.

The Blueline Group

The Blueline Group hired Nadia Kroumova as an engineering designer. Kroumova previously worked as a civil CAD designer and civil engineer and has more than 25 years of experience on residential and commercial developments. Blueline provides civil engineering and land development consulting.