Aug 30, 2016

City of Kirkland

City Manager Kurt Triplett won the top award for 2016 from the Washington City/County Management Association for an administrator or manager. Triplett became city manager in 2010. WCMA cited several examples of his innovative work: Cross Kirkland Corridor and Interim Trail; a new framework for state legislative strategy; creating a public disclosure ordinance; Google's expansion and two major re-development projects: Totem Lake Mall and Kirkland Urban.

BECU

BECU credit union will open its first Spokane-area Neighborhood Financial Centers Sept. 19 in two new branches: Cataldo Square at 916 N. Division St., and 615 N. Sullivan Road in Spokane Valley. A third BECU financial center will open soon. BECU now has mortgage advisors and business relationship managers in Spokane.

PCL Construction

The Seattle office of PCL Construction Services added Raymond Woodard as chief estimator; John Voorhees as senior project manager; Tiffani Candler as health, safety and environmental coordinator; Ashli Kikendall, Joshua Miller and Alexander Roth as field engineers; Mike Kozak as superintendent; Jennifer Pelley as accountant; and Eric Schwebach as estimator. Woodard and Voorhees transferred from other PCL locations. Woodard started at PCL in 2008 as a senior estimator in Honolulu and has 19 years of industry experience. Voorhees previously was manager of the Special Projects division in Honolulu. He has been with the company since 2005. Candler recently earned a bachelor's degree in safety and health management from Central Washington University. Kikendall and Miller recently earned bachelor's degrees in construction management from Washington State University. Roth recently graduated from Oregon State University with a bachelor's degree in construction engineering management. Kozak spent the last 24 years working for BEK of Alaska. Pelley previously was senior accountant for the city of Des Moines. Schwebach has five years of construction experience, and holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Florida.

Phoenix Industrial

Buckley

David Buckley is the new business development manager for the western U.S. region for Phoenix Industrial. Buckley has more than 25 years of experience in business development, sales, estimating, project management and ownership. He previously owned a business focused on concrete and civil construction at industrial plants in the western U.S. He is working out of Phoenix's Vancouver office.

Modern Machinery

Modern Machinery bought AggReCon West, a distributor and servicer of portable and stationary crushers, screen plants, feeders and conveying equipment for the aggregate, mining and paving industries. Eugene, Oregon-based AggReCon represents Kolberg Pioneer, Johnson Crushers International and Astec Mobile Screens. It was a division of Astec Industries.

Aug 26, 2016

Lane Powell

Dustin J. O'Quinn has joined Lane Powell as a shareholder in the Immigration Practice Group. O'Quinn counsels employers in the technology, energy, design and financial sectors on U.S. immigration issues. He managed the immigration practice at The Dustin O'Quinn Law Firm and also worked at Foster LLP and Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP.

Perkins Coie

Perkins Coie hired Melanie K. Curtice in the Tax Benefits & Compensation group as a partner in the Seattle office. She counsels public and private sector employers on the legal issues of benefits for employees.

Aug 25, 2016

NWG Residential

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Bellevue Towers

With its recent listing of a $14 million condo in Bellevue Towers, Northwest Group Real Estate is launching a new sales platform called NWG Signature Gold. The nine-year-old boutique brokerage, co-founded by Nick W. Glant, has the exclusive listing for Penthouse 4201 in the 2009 condominium complex. NWG's Jason Foss and Jason Mesnick are handling the 6,400-square-foot condominium, which is at 500 106th Ave. N.E. The unit boasts about 4,000 square feet of outdoor space, two fireplaces, four bathrooms and three bedrooms. The sellers are investor/entrepreneur/philanthropist Gary Rubens and his wife, Jennifer Rubens, who bought it in 2013 for $3.8 million. (Rubens sold his ATG Stores e-commerce empire for an unspecified amount to Lowe's in 2011.) The penthouse was renovated in 2015 and has its own website: BellevueTowers4201.com.

Urban Land Institute

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Interbay

Savvy investors are snapping up parcels in Interbay, anticipating the possible passage in November of Sound Transit 3, which would build light rail along 15th Avenue West and into Ballard. ULI Northwest has organized a bus-and-walk tour called “Interbay: Neighborhood at a Crossroads.” The event will be from 3:30-6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, beginning and ending at Holy Mountain Brewing Co., 1421 Elliott Ave. W. Tickets ($40-$55) include transportation and the first round of beer. Stops will include Fisherman's Terminal, Whole Foods, Expedia's future campus (now Amgen), Interbay Worklofts, and the Armory at Seattle Center. RSVP at Northwest@uli.org or phone (206) 224-4500. (Pro tip: Look for parking by taking the West Galer Street flyover to the Elliott Bay Trail lots along 16th Avenue West, facing Smith Cove. Or bike.)

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank

NGKF announced that veteran sales and leasing broker Tim O'Keefe has joined its Seattle office, assuming the title of executive managing director. Formerly with CBRE, he's been in the real estate field since 1986, with over $10 billion in transactions behind him. Last year he was on the team that put DocuSign into 118,830 square feet at Wells Fargo Center.

Calfo Eakes & Ostrovsky

Elder

Ostravsky

Eakes

Calfo

Angelo J. Calfo, Patty A. Eakes, Andrea D. Ostrovsky and Damon C. Elder have formed a new Seattle firm: Calfo Eakes & Ostrovsky PLLC. It will focus on high-stakes civil litigation and white collar criminal defense. The four partners are joined by associates Alicia J. Cullen, Emily Dodds Powell and Andrew R.W. Hughes. The seven attorneys are departing from the previously named law firm of Calfo Harrigan Leyh & Eakes.

Marshall Defense

Garick

Alexei Garick has joined Marshall Defense Firm in Seattle as an associate. He has more than 10 years of experience as both as a prosecutor and defense attorney in sexual assault and child abuse cases. He worked in Massachusetts as an assistant district attorney in the Child Abuse/Sexual Assault Division.