Oct 11, 2018

Windermere gets into retail leasing

Jacobi

Connell

Windermere Real Estate has formed a new partnership with Seattle-based West Coast Commercial Realty, which is run by the mother/daughter team of Carol Pugh and Tiffini Connell, and specializes in retail leasing. Windermere is mainly a residential broker in Seattle, but president OB Jacobi said it wants to expand further into commercial. Pugh was once a Windermere broker. Since 2004, WCCR brokers have completed transactions on nearly 10 million square feet of retail space statewide.

iBorrow arranges $10M Arlington loan

Direct lender iBorrow said it has arranged a $10.52 million loan for the owners of an unnamed industrial/office building in Arlington. The 244,590-square-foot building is now 84 percent leased. Tenants include an airplane parts supplier. The owners intend to upgrade the property. Based in Los Angeles, iBorrow has a local office in Ballard. CEO Brian Good said, “We are bullish on these types of properties throughout the country.”

King County

Flor

Leo Flor was named director of King County's Department of Community and Human Services. Flor joined the department's management team in 2016, and led a plan to renew and expand the veterans, seniors and human services levy. He was an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. He succeeds Adrienne Quinn, who will become a distinguished practitioner at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Policy & Governance.

Pacific Northwest College of Art

In Portland, Candace Horter joined Pacific Northwest College of Art as vice president for advancement. Horter was CEO of the Cascades Region of the American Red Cross, and vice president for development at Oregon College of Art and Craft.

WSU

Washington State University President Kirk Schulz will serve as the Pac-12 representative on the College Football Playoff board of managers. While at Kansas State University, Schulz was chairman of the NCAA board of governors. Before that, he was part of the subcommittee that redesigned the Division I governance model. The 11-member playoff board includes representatives from 10 conferences and the University of Notre Dame.

PCC Community Markets

In Seattle, PCC Community Markets announced a $1 million gift to PCC Farmland Trust, an organization it founded nearly 20 years ago to protect Washington farmlands.

Oct 10, 2018

CallisonRTKL

McDevitt

Jerry McDevitt joined global architecture, design and planning firm CallisonRTKL as a vice president in the Seattle office. McDevitt is a leader in senior living and special needs housing. CallisonRTKL said he works on creating vibrant, hospitality-inspired and sustainable communities for these rapidly expanding populations, a growing and increasingly sophisticated market.

HNTB

Sparrman

Goran Sparrman joined infrastructure firm HNTB as business development officer and vice president. Bellevue-based Sparrman is responsible for expanding HNTB's footprint in the region and supporting infrastructure clients. He has over three decades of experience, most recently as interim director of Seattle Department of Transportation, where he led transportation infrastructure projects. The engineer also was Bellevue director of transportation and held traffic management leadership roles with Portland and Sacramento.

Berger Partnership

Matthews

Guo

George

Seattle-based Berger Partnership hired Byron George and Jiaxi Guo as landscape designers and Julie Matthews as a project manager. George has three years of professional and volunteer experience. He holds a master of landscape architecture from the University of Georgia and a bachelor's from Seattle University. He is working on the Microsoft Campus refresh in Redmond. Guo has a landscape background from China and the U.S. She holds master of landscape architecture degrees from the University of Washington and Tonji University in China, and a bachelor of landscape architecture from Beijing Forestry University in China. She is working on Swedish Cherry Hill Medical Office Building. Matthews has graphic and computer rendering skills, and is a landscape architect. She has experience on projects that include adaptive reuse of historic sites and campus design. She is working on the Downtown Redmond Link Extension. Berger is a landscape architectural and urban design firm.

Confluence Environmental

Doye

Confluence Environmental Co. hired Eric Doye as a senior aquatic ecologist in Seattle. Doye has 21 years of experience analyzing environmental impacts to fish and other aquatic organisms in freshwater, estuarine and marine environments. He focuses on habitat protection, and habitat restoration and design projects. Confluence delivers natural resource and capital improvement projects.

Johnston Architects

Chan

Chaffin

Zellers

Seattle-based Johnston Architects hired architects Mona Zellers as an associate, and Jack Chaffin and Scheer Chan as principals. Zellers has a decade of experience working on commercial, academic and cultural projects, including the recently completed Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences' Cardinal Union Building. Chaffin has over 20 years of experience in the design and planning of projects, including more than 12 years of design technology research and development. Chan has over 20 years of experience with a focus on higher education, high performance buildings and sustainable renovation. He has worked on college campuses in Washington.

OAC Services

Nault

OAC Services hired Tom Nault as chief operating officer to oversee operations, human resources, marketing, public relations, business development and information technologies teams, and help the firm continue to expand and move into new markets. He has a background in high-tech and building companies, and was a business advisor to the leadership of OAC, a project/construction management and forensic architecture/engineering firm.

Stantec

McPherson

In Bellevue, Stantec hired Jim McPherson as a senior project manager for transportation. The civil engineer has 30 years of experience, most recently with Jacobs, where he specialized in large infrastructure projects, such as the Sea-Tac airport renovation. In the Puget Sound region, Stantec provides engineering and design services for buildings, transportation, water, waterpower and dams, and environmental projects.

McKinstry

Liljequist

In Seattle, McKinstry hired Brad Liljequist as zero-energy program manager to work on grid-optimal building design, photovoltaics and other renewable energy technologies, and contribute to projects, such as the zero-energy Catalyst Building. He previously directed the Zero Energy Program at the International Living Future Institute, and directed development of zHome, the first multifamily zero energy community in the U.S.

Stepherson & Assoc. Communications

Kitchen

Huynh

Seattle-based Stepherson & Associates Communications hired Michelle Huynh and Peter Kitchen as associates. Huynh is leading outreach on projects for King County and Lower Duwamish Waterway Group, a partnership of the city of Seattle, King County, the Port of Seattle and Boeing. She has 10 years of communications and community engagement experience. Kitchen is leading outreach on projects for Seattle City Light, Seattle Department of Transportation and King County Wastewater Treatment Division. He has six years of communications and public relations experience. Stepherson provides outreach and communications.

Art Anderson

Art Anderson, a Bremerton multidisciplinary engineering services firm, hired Herb Gabales as a project manager in its facility division. He has decades of architecture, cost estimation and planning experience for design and construction projects, and has worked in the federal, commercial and industrial markets.

Lane Powell

Castleberry

In Seattle, Lane Powell promoted Jen Castleberry to the newly created position of chief marketing and client experience officer. Castleberry joined Lane Powell as director of marketing in 2016 after spending more than 10 years in similar capacities for Perkins Coie and Davis Wright Tremaine.

Medical Teams International

Breilh

Cindy Breilh is the new executive director for U.S. programs at Medical Teams International in Portland. Breilh joined Medical Teams in 2015 as director of advancement. She is experienced in nonprofit, health care, management and fundraising. Medical Teams provides care for people in crisis.

Propeller Airports

Propeller Airports selected McGee Air Services for aircraft ground handling and passenger mobility services for airlines using Paine Field in Everett. Propeller is building a new passenger terminal at Paine. Renton-based McGee is a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines.

U-Haul

North Mart Furniture in White Center has become a U-Haul neighborhood dealer of rental trucks, trailers, towing equipment and moving supplies. North Mart is at 9841 15th Ave. S.W., Seattle. Hussin Safi owns North Mart.