Aug 23, 2016

KING 5

Espinosa-Hall

KING 5 has hired David Espinosa-Hall to be the evening and night-side anchor starting in October. He was with WKMG in Orlando as morning anchor, and also worked at KMBC in Kansas, WWOR in New Jersey, KDKA in Pittsburgh and WTOC in Savannah, Georgia.

Green River College

Williamson

Rebecca (Rhodes) Williamson, Spokane Community College's vice president of instruction since 2012, will become Green River College's interim vice president of instruction, filling the position vacated after Derek Brandes was named president of Walla Walla Community College. Williamson was vice president of the Institute of Extended Learning, and dean of trades and technology at Green River College.

Dexter + Chaney

Westberg

Rosenbloom

Seattle-based Dexter + Chaney promoted Scott Rosenbloom to vice president-strategy and Curt Westberg to vice president—customer. Rosenbloom is in charge of product direction and management, as well as the company's third-party partnerships and technology integrations. Westberg is managing client relationships, customer retention, client advocacy programs and customer awareness of Dexter + Chaney products and services. The company develops cloud-based construction management software.

Integrity Energy Services

Hawkins

Steven Hawkins is the new director of construction and estimating at Integrity Energy Services, where he is overseeing construction grade estimates, constructability reviews and project management. Hawkins is a Certified Professional Estimator with more than 30 years of industry experience. Seattle-based Integrity upgrades building systems.

Aug 19, 2016

Washington State Hospital Association

Sauer

Washington State Hospital Association said Cassie Sauer, the current executive vice president, will become CEO in January. Sauer replaces CEO Scott Bond, who retires at the end of the year after more than three decades in health care. Sauer will be the organization's fourth CEO. She has worked for the association for 16 years.

Symetra

Moskovit

Symetra Financial Corp. of Bellevue appointed Evan S. Moskovit, CFA, senior vice president and head of corporate fixed Income. Moskovit will oversee Symetra's $19 billion in-house corporate bond portfolio. He was with NN Investment Partners in New York and will be based in Farmington, Connecticut.

Aug 18, 2016

Garvey Schubert Barer

Sandford

Garvey Schubert Barer attorney Sara P. Sandford has been elected chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law for a one-year term. She also will serve as a board member on the ABA's Rule of Law Initiative. Sandford works with clients in establishing, acquiring and operating businesses across borders.

Seattle Housing Authority

The Housing Authority Insurance Group said Seattle Housing Authority won its 2016 Risk Management Award for Resident Safety. SHA implemented a new Facility Safety Audit in 2015 that added sections to improve safety at each site.

Jones Lang LaSalle

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Broker JLL, in conjunction with Abodo.com, released survey results this week that rank Seattle as the third best city for millennials. There were 2,000 respondents and they placed New York and San Francisco ahead of us. Only opinions were solicited, not detailed data. Nearly 20 percent of those asked said they preferred New York. San Francisco earned a 10 percent thumbs up, while Seattle and Portland are essentially tied — at 9.23 percent and 9.13 percent, respectively. Columbus, Ohio ranked last among the 20 cities cited.

NAIOP

The Washington State Chapter of NAIOP will present a breakfast talk at the Four Seasons called “A Tale of Two Cities: Investing in U.S. Commercial Real Estate” on Wednesday, Sept. 21. (RSVP at naiopwa.org. Tickets $40-70.) The speakers will be Mark Fleming, chief economist with First American, and Linda J. Isaacson, a senior vice president at First American. Topics will include millennials, transit and technology — all of them driving the current investment climate.

CBRE Affordable Housing

Flinn

CBRE announced that James Flinn joined CBRE Affordable Housing as senior vice president. He made the move from JLL. He'll work in debt and structured finance, bringing past experience in Section 8 housing, tax-exempt bond transactions and cash-flow analysis. CBRE Affordable Housing has closed over $12 billion in sales and financing since 2001. Before JLL, Flinn was at Red Capital.

Continental Properties

Continental Properties President Claudio Guincher said he started work this month on Kirkland Main Street Apartments. Continental is building on that city's last large vacant lot (41,994 square feet), commonly referred to as the Antiques Mall. The address is 113 Third St., and the parcel is on Park Lane, between Main Street and Third, one block from the downtown commercial strip on Lake Street. Continental plans a six-story building with about 13,000 square feet of ground-level retail, 128 apartments and 219 parking spaces. Here is the team: Compass Construction, architect Johnson Braund Inc., and Yu and Trochalakis (structural engineers) and PACE (civil engineers). Last year Guincher announced a slightly smaller preliminary plan for the property, which a Continental-related LLC acquired that March for $12 million. Guincher hopes to finish the project by early 2018.