Oct 14, 2016

Riddell Williams

Riddell Williams said Laura Hansen has joined the Litigation Practice Group. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Benjamin H. Settle of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Paseo

Ryan Santwire said he will open Paseo Capitol Hill at 925 E. Pike St., in a space next to the music club Neumos that used to be Pike Street Fish Fry. Paseo Capitol Hill will offer Caribbean-infused food. Santwire recently opened Paseo SoDo at 1760 First Ave. S. Paseo Fremont is at 4225 Fremont Ave. N.

Oct 13, 2016

Ogden Murphy Wallace

Ogden Murphy Wallace has added Andrew Sachs as a member. He is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer, who worked as a TV news reporter before going to law school. Sachs handles complex commercial cases for tech companies, consumer products firms and financial institutions. He also was president of QLaw, the GLBT bar association for the state of Washington.

Clark Nuber

Clark Nuber promoted four principals: Shelly Archuleta, Joe Haberzetle, Jennifer Mace and Christie Streit. The accounting firm also promoted five senior managers: Victoria Kitts, Moses Man, Bryce Rassilyer, Kaman Shiu and Mandy Statz.

Washington State Housing Finance Commission

Photo courtesy Alec Miller

From left: Michael Mirra, Stephen Norman, Betsy Hunter, Marilee Roloff and Chris Lowell.

The Seattle-based nonprofit WSHFC honored six people as Friends of Housing at the recent Housing Washington conference in Tacoma. They are: Stephen Norman, executive director of King County Housing Authority; Joanne Quinn, asset manager for the Seattle Office of Housing; Betsy Hunter, deputy director for Plymouth Housing; Chris Lowell, executive director of the Housing Authority of Thurston County; Marilee Roloff, founder of the Spokane teen shelter Crosswalk; and Robert Rozen, a Senate staffer who helped U.S. Sen. George Mitchell develop of the 1986 federal legislation that created the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program. Also honored was Michael Mirra, who leads the Tacoma Housing Authority. He received the Margaret M. Sevy Affordable Housing Lifetime Achievement Award.

Phillips Real Estate

Gessel

Phillips Real Estate has a new CEO: Elizabeth Gessel, previously chief operating officer at Bellevue's AGM Commercial Real Estate. She was a founder of AGM, where she spent 18 years in investment and asset management. Phillips and AGM have partnered in the past. Seattle-based Phillips manages nearly 10,000 apartment units in the region.

NAIOP

Kondracke

Wondering who'll win the presidential election and what it'll mean to business? NAIOP is hosting veteran political writer and commentator Morton Kondracke for a breakfast talk on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Not coincidentally, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have their third debate that evening. The breakfast is at Grand Hyatt Seattle at 7 a.m. Tickets $40-$70. Register at naiopwa.org.

Dunn & Hobbes

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Chophouse Row

The mixed-use Chophouse Row complex at 1424 11th Ave. on Capitol Hill has two events this week. Tonight, from 6-9 p.m., dance troupe Breaks and Swells will perform. Pop-up retail vendors will include Knuckle Kiss Jewelry, Seidr Studio, T-Dub Customs, Theo Chocolate and Moorea Seal. On Sunday, Oct. 16, from noon-4 p.m., portions of Pike Street will be closed for Seahawks CiderFest. Local cider makers will vend their wares, and there will be a pumpkin-carving contest, with the squash provided by Carpinito Brothers Pumpkin Patch.