Sep 04, 2014

Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding

The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock named Betsy Davis executive director. She served over a decade as executive director of The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle, a hands-on maritime museum, where she expanded programs and helped raise more than $7 million for capital projects. Davis also has over a decade of management experience at Microsoft, owned a small business and worked for nonprofits.

Overlake Medical Center

Overlake Medical Center named Dr. David Knoepfler chief medical officer. Knoepfler has spent most of his career at Overlake, starting as a volunteer in the emergency department in 1983. He and his father, Peter Knoepfler, were the first father-son practicing physicians at Overlake. Knoepfler was Overlake's chief medical information officer.

Association of Washington Business

The Association of Washington Business named Jason Hagey director of communications. He was communications manager and replaces Jocelyn McCabe, who left to start a public relations business.

Gaming company takes Redmond space

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West Willows Technology Center in Redmond

CBRE helped HighBrook Investment Management and Scanlan Kemper Bard Cos. land a videogame company at West Willows Technology Center in Redmond.

CBRE did not name the company but said it has been looking for space in downtown Bellevue but decided to take 25,000 square feet in Redmond.

PlayNetwork, a customer service company that has been there since 1999, renewed its lease.

The complex is now 87 percent leased. Renovation is under way including work on HVAC, infrastructure, landscaping, exteriors and new outdoor collaboration areas.

RE/MAX opens Bellevue office

Hu

A new RE/MAX franchise is opening at 15015 Main St. in Bellevue. RE/MAX Pacific Realty will have three associates initially and add three more soon. Former software developer Shelly Hu, a broker who specializes in luxury homes and foreign buyers, owns the office. Hu has a partnership with a Chinese real estate advertising site called Fang.com. The office will serve Bellevue, Seattle, Kirkland, Medina, Redmond and Yarrow Point.

Wesley Homes celebrates 70th years

Wesley Homes Retirement Communities and Home Health Services will celebrate its 70th anniversary at an open house Sunday in Des Moines. The company was originally a blueberry farm called Wesley Gardens. It later became Wesley Homes, and now has locations in Des Moines and Auburn, and a home care service. Later this month Wesley Homes will start construction on a new rehabilitation center on its Auburn campus. It has land in Puyallup and Renton where it could build more facilities. Wesley Homes is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Kennedy Wilson buys Tabula Rasa

Kennedy Wilson bought Tabula Rasa, a 118-unit apartment building in Tumwater, for $20.8 million. Kennedy Wilson invested $8 million in equity and got a seven-year, $13.5 million loan from Freddie Mac. Kennedy Wilson has spent $266 million on six apartment complexes in this region, totaling 1,905 units. Kennedy Wilson's multifamily portfolio is 19,500 units, with about 5,000 in the Pacific Northwest.

Pelluer, Hutchins join new Colliers group

Pelluer

Hutchins

Colliers International hired Kim Hutchins and Steve Pelluer as part of a plan to start a nonprofit, religious and educational advisory group. Hutchins and Pelluer ran their own brokerage called Church Property Advisors, which specialized in advising churches, private schools and nonprofit organizations on real estate matters. In their 12 years together, Hutchins and Pelluer have amassed a client list that includes Mars Hill Church, The City Church, Grace Seattle Church, Bear Creek School and Children's Institute for Learning Differences.