Dec 11, 2019

Land Morphology

Koenig

Huang

Crawford

Haddox

Murphy

Luters

Freier

Heller

Seattle-based Land Morphology promoted landscape architects Lindsey Heller to partner, Renee Freier to principal and Ints Luters to associate principal, and hired Greg Murphy as a senior associate, Betsy Haddox as a landscape architect, Dylan Crawford and Cara Huang as landscape designers and Kristina Koenig as a bookkeeper.

Heller joined the firm in 2013 with experience in public garden and zoo design. She is leading the Leach Botanical Garden project, now under construction in Portland. Freier was hired in 2016 and has designed parks, schools, botanic gardens and housing. She is working on commercial projects in Alaska. Luters was hired in 2018 and has a background in integrated ecological design. He has designed parks and zoos and is leading several Seattle-area private projects.

Murphy will manage private projects in the Northwest, and projects in Connecticut and New Jersey. He has managed public park and private development projects. Haddox will be project landscape architect for many of the firm's private projects. Crawford has been working on infrastructure, transportation and park projects. Huang previously designed mixed-use and streetscape projects in California. Crawford and Huang will support project teams. Besides bookkeeping, Koenig will assist with office operations. Land Morphology provides landscape architectural services.

DLR Group

Skolmen

In Seattle, DLR Group hired Lizzy Skolmen (architecture). The firm provides architecture, engineering, interiors, planning and building optimization for new construction, renovation and adaptive reuse.

Parametrix

Swartout

Tom Swartout joined Parametrix as a senior engineer in Puyallup in the water solutions facilities group. He has over 20 years of experience as a process engineer specializing in municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment processes and infrastructure. He was with the city of Olympia providing technical planning and engineering support to its wastewater and drinking water utilities. Before that, he spent 13 years in the private sector, working for Brown and Caldwell, CH2M Hill OMI, and CH2M Hill. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences.

Evergreen Market

Vetto

In Renton, cannabis retailer Evergreen Market named Shannon Vetto as its first CEO. Vetto was Evergreen's chief strategy officer since 2017. She has 28 years of experience as an executive and business leader, including stints as a tax/audit CPA and as an executive at Russell Indexes. Evergreen operates stores in Auburn, Renton, Bellevue and Kirkland, and next year will open its first store in California.

Maven

Zimak

Seattle-based Maven hired Avi Zimak as chief revenue and strategy officer. Zimak was publisher of New York Magazine, where he turned the print-focused publication into a digital-focused business that was recently acquired by Vox Media. Maven says Zimak intends to lead a similar turnaround for Sports Illustrated and other traditional publications that have recently migrated to Maven's digital ecosystem. Maven is a group media network platform.

Columbia Sportswear Co.

Sarah A. Bany, a longtime director of Columbia Sportswear Co., resigned from the Portland company's board in order to focus on administering Gert Boyle's estate. Bany is a daughter of Boyle, who was board chair until her death last month at age 95. Bany served on the board since 1988.

Dry Soda Co.

Seattle-based Dry Soda Co. is investing and partnering with Sans Bar, the first sober bar in Austin, Texas. Sharelle Klaus, founder and CEO of Dry, is assuming a new role as a strategic adviser to expand Sans Bar's reach nationwide through curated and experiential pop-up events. A national pop-up tour with the two companies will start Jan. 10 in Seattle and visit 15 cities across the country.

Comcast

Comcast is opening three new Xfinity stores and a remodeled fourth store in the Portland metro area. The first store is opening Thursday at Clackamas Mall, 12130 S.E. 82nd Ave., Suite H241. It replaces a store on Southeast Oak Street in Milwaukie, which is closing today. On Dec. 19, Comcast will open at Sunset Esplanade, at 2231 S.E. Tualatin Valley Highway in south Hillsboro. The remodeled store will open Dec. 21 on Northwest 185th Avenue in Hillsboro. The third new store will open Dec. 23 at Eastport Plaza, 4124 S.E. 82nd Ave., Suite 500, Portland.