Dec 02, 2022

Fikso Kretschmer

Conway

Launius

Kelsch

Douglas

Seattle law firm Fikso Kretschmer Smith Dixon Ormseth announced several personnel moves. Emily Douglas joined Fikso from Jones Day in San Francisco. She is a graduate of University of Michigan Law School with specialties in real estate finance and purchase and sales, and is admitted to practice in both California and Washington. Bethany Kelsch joined Fikso in February 2022 from Stoel Rives. She graduated from Seattle University School of Law. Kelsch was named in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, and specializes in commercial leases, real estate purchases and sales and finance, broker licensing, and business transactions. Scott Launius joined the firm after recently graduating from the University of Washington School of Law. His practice areas include real estate transactions, commercial leasing, and working with home builders and planned communities. Previously, Launius worked as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable John C. Coughenour. Sydney Conway was promoted to partner following a five-year associate tenure. Previously, Conway was with DLA Piper in Seattle. She specializes in real estate transactions of all kinds, particularly commercial leases. She graduated from the University of Washington School of Law.

Audere

Macharia

Seattle-based Audere, a digital health nonprofit developing solutions to advance health equity, announced the appointment of Dr. Doris Macharia to its board of directors. Macharia is the senior vice president of global programs at Orbis International. She has more than twenty five years of experience in global health and development, spanning managerial, operational, and technical roles throughout the industry. She has experience managing country-specific and regional programming for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, COVID-19, family planning, social behavior change, and other key areas of focus for disease prevention and control. In her current role at Orbis, Macharia manages a portfolio of 70 projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbeans and leads a global team to design, implement and manage eye health programs worldwide. Previously, she held senior positions at FHI360, Futures Group, RTI International, UNICEF, ICAP Columbia University and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Macharia will join existing Audere board members Dino Rech, CEO of Audere; John Halamka, president of Mayo Clinic Platform; Lauren Lavoie, director of engineering, health & wellness technology at Walmart; and Shyam Pather, CTO of Audere.

Dec 01, 2022

JLL lands $109M for 35 Stone start

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As the DJC reported last month, the initial office portion of Campus Seattle, dubbed 35 Stone, recently began construction in Fremont. (Sellen is building that for Evolution Projects, with Weber Thompson as the architect.) The DJC reported an $81.7 million construction loan from Union Labor Life Insurance (aka Ullico). But JLL said this week that the entire loan package amounted to $109 million, with funds also from Canyon Partners Real Estate. JLL's Kaden Eichmeier and Bruce Ganong secured the money. Eichmeier said in a statement, “Fremont is a top destination for Seattle's millennial population, which has in turn drawn many top companies to the neighborhood.” JLL is also brokering space in the building, set to open in 2024, and announced that Brooks Running will take an undisclosed amount of space there. Brooks has its retail store on the nearby high-profile corner of Stone Way North and North 34th Street; that's unlikely to move. As of 2012, Brooks had about 114,000 square feet for its headquarters in Skanska's Stone34 building, above the store. Brooks hasn't announced that it's moving, so the new lease seems to represent an expansion one block north. Representing Brooks in the lease were Brian Kelly and Eric Lonergan of Savills.

ULI holiday party!

Our local ULI chapter's annual holiday gathering is set for Tuesday, Dec. 13, at the downtown headquarters of CallisonRTKL. The gathering starts at 5 p.m. Details and registration: northwest.uli.org.

PABCO Roofing Products

Randolph

Hobdy

PABCO Roofing Products hired Brian Hobdy as vice president and general manager and David Randolph as director of manufacturing. The new executives will guide PABCO Roofing Products, a manufacturer of architectural asphalt shingles for residential and commercial applications, into the company's next phase of growth. Hobdy has held positions in the Pacific Coast Building Products family of companies, of which PABCO Building Products is a subsidiary, for 20 years. He is an accountant by training and veteran of the building products industry, and will interact directly with customers to identify opportunities to improve products and services. Prior to joining the company, Hobdy was an auditor at Price Waterhouse Coopers, where one of his clients was Pacific Coast Building Products. In his role as director of manufacturing, Randolph will apprise and bolster PABCO Roofing Products' manufacturing philosophies and processes to maximize product quality, pursue innovation, modernize equipment and processes, and improve safety for employees. Randolph's career includes leadership positions in building-products manufacturing companies, including Johns Manville and Owens Corning. Tacoma-based PABCO Roofing Products has been in operation since 1984, and is a division of PABCO Building Products which services the building industry in the western United States and Canada.

Emerald Downs

Emerald Downs has announced a 52-day live racing season for 2023, with opening day Saturday, May 6, and closing day Sunday, Sept. 17. The 2023 season features 20 Saturdays, 19 Sundays, 11 Fridays, and two Mondays. Opening day shares billing with the 148th Kentucky Derby with a special 1 p.m. first post at Emerald Downs. Post times are similar to recent seasons with Saturday post 2 p.m. May 13-June 24, and 5 p.m. July 1-Sept. 16. Sunday post is 2 p.m. throughout the meeting while Friday post (beginning June 9) is 7 p.m. Holiday racing is scheduled Monday, May 29, 2 p.m., and Monday, July 3, 5 p.m. The 2023 meet — the 28th at Emerald Downs — features the 88th running of the Longacres Mile. The stakes schedule will be released in December. Live racing dates were approved at the recent monthly meeting of the Washington Horse Racing Commission.

Northline Seafoods

Northline Seafoods has launched a new project to build a sustainable and efficient mobile commercial salmon processing platform, with construction planned to begin at the Port of Bellingham in January. The Hannah is vertically integrated vessel that will operate in Bristol Bay, Alaska, during the commercial fishing season. The Hannah will process salmon by deep freezing fish whole at the fishing grounds in Bristol Bay and hauling them back to its base of Pacific Northwest operations in Bellingham, where the fish will be stored, reprocessed and distributed year-round all from one vessel. The final product will be delivered to the market at a higher quality and with a more sustainable environmental footprint. The vessel will be built out of an existing barge hull that will be towed from the Gulf of Mexico to Washington. Northline Seafoods recently closed on a $40 million backed guarantee Food Supply Chain loan for the Hannah project that was made possible by the Biden Administration's “Build Back Better” initiative, and financed by Greater Commercial Lending, which provides loans to businesses and organizations in under-served and rural communities. Northline also teamed with Zachary Scott, a Seattle-based investment banking firm with ties to the seafood industry, to raise $62.5 million to support the company in its development. Northline Seafoods is a seafood processing company Headquartered in Sitka, Alaska, that freezes wild salmon at the source, starting in Bristol Bay.

Nov 30, 2022

Confluence Environmental Company

Potter

Love

Confluence Environmental Company has hired two staff members: Jenny Love as project biologist III and Sara Potter as project ecologist III.

Love has 17 years of experience in environmental assessment, habitat restoration project planning and design, and stormwater permitting and compliance. She conducts ecological restoration projects in wetland, stream, and upland forested habitat areas from the planning phase through design, permitting, construction, and monitoring. Love evaluates project permitting requirements and prepares documentation to meet local, state, and federal regulatory requirements. She also develops vegetation assessment and management plans, conducts wildlife surveys, and collects data to monitor habitat restoration projects.

Potter has eight years of experience providing permitting support for natural resources and land use projects, specializing in marine water quality and shoreline mitigation/restoration. Potter performs wetland studies, threatened and endangered species surveys, stream and nearshore surveys, marine mammal monitoring, and similar assessments. She has expertise in local, state, and federal environmental policies and regulations and she routinely conducts regulatory research and data synthesis and prepares documentation to meet local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.

Confluence Environmental Company is headquartered in Fremont and specializes in natural resource services; restoration/mitigation; and regulatory strategy, compliance, and permitting.

Johnston Architects

Johnson

Woll

Borsari

Baker

Johnston Architects has hired Lina Baker as an associate and interior designer, Sierra Borsari and Jake Woll as project architects, and Jay Johnson as an architect and project manager.

Baker, NCIDQ holds 15 years of experience in interior design with an emphasis on creative workplace, multi-family, mixed-use and senior housing projects. A graduate of Colorado State University with a BS in Interior Design, Baker's past projects include tenant improvements for Coffman Engineers, Verathon, and Microsoft; as well as interior design for Leeward, a mixed-use housing project in South Lake Union, and Murano Senior Living, a high-rise in First Hill. Joining JA as an associate, Baker is currently focusing on tenant improvements for civic clients, including renovations to the Sammamish City Hall and Edmonds Library.

Borsari, AIA earned her BS in Architecture from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as Masters Degrees in Architecture & Civil Engineering Construction Management from Washington University in Saint Louis. Borsari brings experience in multi-family developments, single-family houses, and hospitality projects, with a focus on sustainability. Her past projects include mid- and high-rise projects in Seattle's Downtown, Belltown and South Lake Union neighborhoods. A registered architect, Borsari is currently working as construction administration project architect for the new Redmond Senior & Community Center in Redmond, WA, a 56,000 SF facility being designed in collaboration with Opsis Architecture of Portland.

Woll, AIA joined JA as a student intern in 2021 before graduating with his Masters in Architecture from the University of Washington this year. Woll worked for nearly five years in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area on a diverse mix of project types after earning his BS in Architecture from the University of Minnesota. A recently licensed architect, at JA Woll is currently designing several single-family houses and supporting efforts on the Redmond Senior & Community Center. He is also applying his experience in visualization technology to streamline the firm's rendering process and give them a cohesive aesthetic across all project types.

Johnson, AIA, NCARB earned his Masters in Architecture from the University of Washington and has spent 18 years designing civic and community projects throughout the Puget Sound region, including the education, mass transit, and performing arts sectors. Some of his notable past projects include Rose Hill Middle School in Redmond, as well as multiple projects for the Sound Transit Link Light Rail extensions, including the Northgate, Rainier, Lynnwood City Center and University District Stations. Johnson is serving as the Project Manager for JA's Seattle Center On-Call Contract, which includes improvements to the Seattle Repertory Theater, Fisher Pavilion, Vera Project and Mercer Parking Garage buildings on the Seattle Center campus.

Makers Architecture and Urban Design

Aldape

LoRocco

Elliott

Makers Architecture and Urban Design LLP announced new staff recently hired in its Seattle and San Diego offices.

Gabriela Elliott has joined the firm as a facility planner based in the San Diego office, working with the federal facility planning team. She has two years of professional experience and a bachelor's degree in urban and environmental policy from Occidental College.

Joey LoRocco is a facility planner with a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Oregon. He is currently pursuing his architecture license and will be supporting Makers' federal facility planning team, which provides services for Department of Defense clients and other federal agencies.

Taylor Aldape is Makers' human resources specialist. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and eight years of experience in office administration and customer service. Prior to joining the firm, she was the HR and operations coordinator at a property management company of over 200 employees.

NAC Architecture

Bain

Brodie Bain, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP, has joined interdisciplinary design firm, NAC Architecture, as director of higher education planning. Her knowledge of physical planning for higher education will complement NAC's focus on the role of design in student live/learn success.

Bain's career as a registered architect and certified planner comes with a wealth of experience in campus planning, capital planning, programming, space utilization studies, land use, site planning, and pre-designs for a full range of campus building types. Her new role will be the impetus for exciting and innovative new perspectives from NAC's offices in Columbus, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Spokane.

Parametrix

Watson

Roché

Richard Roché, RG, LHG and Darby Watson, AICP have been promoted to senior vice president at Parametrix assuming overall leadership responsibility of their respective regions and serving on the company wide Operations Leadership Team.

Roché leads the Oregon and Southwest Washington region of the firm, which includes 120 staff with offices in Portland and Bend, Oregon and Vancouver. He has been with Parametrix since 2002 and has over 30 years of experience as an environmental consultant providing project and program management for industrial, data center, and public clients.

Watson leads the Puget Sound region of the firm, which includes 330 staff with offices in Seattle, Mukilteo, Bremerton, Puyallup, and Tacoma. She joined Parametrix in 2019 and has 26 years of experience overseeing transportation and urban planning programs.