May 20, 2021

MainStreet brings pizza to Woodinville

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MainStreet Property Group announced that Ethan Stowell's Ballard Pizza Co. will open a fourth new location at what it's dubbed the Schoolhouse District. That 3-acre development includes the preserved, over century-old former schoolhouse itself, plus the renovated YMCA building and the new GGLO-designed midrise complex with 266 units and retail. Stowell said in a statement, “We are most excited about getting to know the families and personalities of this fantastic community.” The 3,000-square-foot restaurant will be part of Wine Walk Row; it's expected to open in the second half of this year. Other signed commercial tenants now include Walla Walla Steak Co. and Crossbuck Brewing. MainStreet's sister company GenCap Construction built the project, and HAL Real Estate was a financial partner. The apartments, dubbed Class and Chalk, are set to open this fall.

Second spec building leased in Bremerton

The Port of Bremerton announced that it has leased the second of two speculative industrial buildings to Allied Boats. Both are in the Port's Olympic View Industrial and Business Park. The Port further announced that it's contemplating the addition of about 180,000 more square feet in three separate projects with private developers. Port CEO Jim Rothlin said in a statement, “All of these projects coming is a testimony to the hard work staff have put in to create shovel-ready opportunities to create more jobs for our community.”

Another Barnes & Noble? Yes, really

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Physical bookstores are making a return, at least in Kirkland. Barnes & Noble announced that it'll open its first new store in the Seattle area in 14 years. It'll join other retail tenants at The Village at Totem Lake, which CenterCal Properties and partners have almost fully completed. The ribbon cutting will be on May 26, with local author Kobi Yamada in attendance. His latest children's book is Trying; he's also CEO of Compendium, a publisher and gift company. The venerable bookseller, founded in 1971, also has stores at Northgate, Alderwood and Westfield Southcenter. The Bellevue store, once a bowling alley, is slated for redevelopment by Bosa Development. After being a public company for 20 years, Barnes & Noble was purchased in 2019 for $638 million by private equity firm Elliott Advisors. The chain now has over 600 stores. The new Kirkland store will feature a cafe. The Village at Totem Lake meanwhile says that its Cinemark has resumed screening movies, and that an Amazon 4-Star store is coming soon.

May 19, 2021

Rice Fergus Miller

Miller

Architect Mike Miller is retiring this month after 19 years as a principal and owner of Bremerton-based architecture, interiors and planning firm Rice Fergus Miller. Miller has led the design of healthcare and senior living facilities. He joined RFM from Seattle architecture firm NBBJ, where he was a leader in senior living and healthcare. Miller came to realize that senior living, healthcare and hospitality design each serve a similar core audience. So at RFM he integrated those practices into a studio known as H3. His senior living projects at RFM have included Emerald Communities' Emerald Heights in Redmond, Heron's Key in Gig Harbor and Timber Ridge at Talus in Issaquah. His healthcare work has included St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, where he planned and designed projects. His other medical clients have included Olympic Medical Center, Jefferson Healthcare, Virginia Mason and CHI Franciscan. He was on St. Michael's board for two years and its foundation board for 14 years, leading it for three years. He won LeadingAge Washington's Award of Honor in 2016 and received a University of Washington Milgard School of Business Leader of the Year award in 2006.

Coffman Engineers

Schultz

Barker

Coffman Engineers, a national multidiscipline engineering firm, named Fred Barker and Trevor Schultz in the Seattle office as principal owners. Barker has more than 10 years of experience and is a structural engineer who has done design and project management for commercial, federal, industrial, residential and renovation projects. He has worked with national retailers, large commercial clients and major industrial clients across North America. Schultz has more than 13 years of experience in mechanical engineering with a focus on industrial facilities and commercial buildings. He has a background in hydraulic power, industrial ventilation, bulk material handling, compressed air systems, pneumatic controls, dust collection and commercial HVAC.

WSP USA

Diaz-Carreras

Shannon

WSP USA hired water resource professionals Alex Shannon and Juan H. Diaz-Carreras, who are based in Seattle and Los Angeles. They will be water line leaders in their respective geography, responsible for providing clients water, wastewater and surface water solutions and continuing to build WSP's water business. Shannon has a decade of experience developing water solutions for communities around the country. In his new role, he will continue to provide thought leadership in economic modeling, risk analysis, decision science, funding strategies and optimizing the implementation of utilities' capital improvement programs. Diaz-Carreras has project management experience in consulting and working for a water district on Florida Everglades restoration projects. He lobbied Congress with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and consulted with Native Americans on sensitive issues. WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, an engineering and professional services firm.

ZoomInfo

ZoomInfo, a provider of go-to-market intelligence solutions, announced that Chetna Mahajan has joined the company as chief information officer. With nearly two decades of experience in technology and operations, she will lead ZoomInfo's information technology strategy. Mahajan will serve on ZoomInfo's executive leadership team and report to Chris Hays, ZoomInfo's chief operating officer. Mahajan was most recently vice president of business systems and data analytics at Conga. Prior to Conga, Mahajan served as senior director of business systems, intelligent automation, and digital experience for Symantec, a cybersecurity software company. She also held senior roles at Delta Dental of California, the Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology, Boeing, and Sun Microsystems. ZoomInfo is headquartered in Vancouver.

RocketReach

Bellevue-based RocketReach, an intelligence platform used by sales, marketing and recruiting teams, appointed Tom Hale to its board of directors. Hale currently serves as president of SurveyMonkey, a provider of software solutions for customer experience, market research, and survey feedback, where he is responsible for overseeing engineering, infrastructure, product marketing, user experience and growth. Before joining SurveyMonkey in 2016, he spent six years at HomeAway, an internet marketplace for vacation rentals, first as chief product officer and then as chief operating officer. Hale currently serves on the boards of Cars.com and NoiseAware.

Folklife Festival

With support from Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, the 50th annual Northwest Folklife Festival will take place virtually on Memorial Day weekend, May 28-31. The full schedule is now available. There are many ways to engage with programming at this year's virtual festival. Streaming channels such as 50 Years of Folklife, Folklife Premieres, and The Roadhouse all feature regional artists while On-Demand and Family Fun channels provide any time access to performances. New this year, the Gathering Room provides live workshops in an intimate virtual space. Additional information is available at http://www.nwfolklife.org/festival/home.

Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice Semiconductor announced that the Lattice Sentry solution stack and the Lattice SupplyGuard supply chain security service won the 2021 Global InfoSec Cutting Edge in Embedded Security Award from Cyber Defense Magazine. Lattice's Sentry solution stack is a combination of customizable embedded software, reference designs, IP, and development tools for accelerating the implementation of secure systems compliant with NIST platform firmware resiliency guidelines. The Lattice SupplyGuard service extends the system protection provided by the Sentry stack throughout the supply chain by delivering factory-locked devices protected against attacks like cloning and malware insertion. Lattice is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.