May 08, 2025

Not more pickleball!

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An Auburn industrial building has found a new tenant: Rally Pickleball Club. Kidder Mathews represented the tenant in the recent lease. The landlord at Auburn 18, formerly Pacific Point, is Industrial Realty Group. Rally is taking 43,959 square feet in one of the old industrial buildings that was once owned by the U.S. General Services Administration. Terms weren't announced. The landlord's broker is CBRE. Kidder's Matt McLennan said of the deal, “This wasn't your typical lease. But we're thrilled to have secured this space for a team that's bringing real professionalism to the indoor pickleball market.” Separately, as the DJC reported in January, IRG is planning a major overhaul of its 129-acre property. Several old buildings will be removed to make way for newer, larger structures. A few old buildings will remain. The complex will shift its balance of space from about 1.5 million square feet now to 2.4 million square feet after demo and construction, which hasn't yet begun.

NAIOPWA keeps eye on puck

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Sports! Or, more properly, sports-related real estate will be the topic of NAIOPWA's next monthly breakfast, to be held on May 21 at the Westin Seattle hotel. What do sports and real estate have to do with each other, you ask? Bodies, mainly, meaning visitors and sports fans who spend, spend, spend at hotels, bars and restaurants. And our industry caters to those customers, sometimes even building fancy new venues for their fandom. (One example, pictured, is the planned revamp of Memorial Stadium at Seattle Center.) To discuss sports-related seat filling will be a panel consisting of Angie Mentink from Root Sports, Courtney Carter from the Sounders and Reign, Lance Lopes from the Kraken and Dan Eernissee from city of Everett. (There, a new baseball stadium is being planned for the AquaSox.) The event begins at 8 a.m. Details and registration: naiopwa.org

Kidder Mathews finds yard tenant

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Three years ago, CenterPoint Properties paid a whopping $76 million for yard space in South Park. That's right, for 19 acres of bare asphalt, the deal was worth about $92 per square foot. Kidder Mathews represents the yard, right in between Highway 509 and state Route 99, and it announced that over 4.6 acres has been leased to an undisclosed client. Kidder's Chris Corr and Matt Murray represent CenterPoint. Murray said in a statement, “What makes this property unique is not only its size, but its excellent condition.” At the time of leasing, this was the largest paved, lit, and fenced contiguous yard available in King County. The yard was once the South Park Landfill, but there was environmental remediation under past local owner SeaCon, before it sold to CenterPoint. Corr and Murray also brokered that large sale.

Tarragon

Satterwhite

Purdue

Chad Purdue has been promoted to land development manager, Tarragon recently announced. Among his big projects to help oversee is Uplands, in the South Hill area south of Puyallup. That ongoing residential effort has both sales and rental components. And Grahm Satterwhite is now director of development, with a focus on multifamily. Tarragon president Dennis Rattie said of both, “They've each taken on significant responsibilities, and continue to move important projects forward with consistency and focus. Their work has made a real impact on the progress of key developments.”

A big lease in Lakewood

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US Elogistics Service Corp. has inked a 208,370-square-foot lease at the Lakewood Tacoma Logistics Center. Kidder Mathews' Todd Clarke, Ty Clarke and Matt McLennan represented the landlord, TA Realty. The new tenant, a freight and logistics company, has a relatively short lease that extends an initial five-plus years. McLennan said in a statement, “This is a high-quality, well-located facility built for performance. It checks all the right boxes for today's logistics users, and we're pleased to have secured a strong tenant on behalf of our client.”

BECU

BECU will open new Neighborhood Financial Centers (NFCs) on Bainbridge Island and in Duvall. The Bainbridge Island NFC opens in late 2025 and the Duvall NFC in 2026.

“Our new NFCs in Bainbridge and Duvall will be our first locations in these communities, making it easier than ever for our members to access in-person financial services. This includes one-on-one support for opening new accounts, loans and mortgages and investments and trust services,” said Jason Rudman, BECU chief member and digital experience officer.

The Bainbridge Island NFC will be located at 275 High School Road N.E. in the Island Village shopping complex. The Duvall NFC marks BECU's first location in the Snoqualmie Valley. The 3,000-square-foot location will be located at 14241 Main St. N.E. BECU expects to hire six employees at each of its new locations.

These NFCs will join other recently opened locations in Pierce County, White Center and Spokane. Additionally in 2025, BECU will open future NFCs in Kirkland and Stanwood in the fall.

With more than 1.5 million members and $29.4 billion in assets, BECU is the largest not-for-profit credit union in Washington and one of the top four financial cooperatives in the country. Anyone who lives, works or goes to school in Washington is eligible for membership.

May 07, 2025

Middle of Six

Flattery

Middle of Six, a marketing consultancy specializing in architecture, engineering, and construction has hired Julie Flattery as associate principal.

Based in Southern California, Flattery has been in the A/E/C profession for over 40 years and will contribute her significant knowledge in all areas of marketing to Middle of Six's team and clients.

She has been consulting for the past five years, providing the gamut of marketing services and teaching proposal workshops. She is also known for writing and speaking about the art of proposal creation, authentic interviewing, connecting with clients, and A/E/C marketing to professional organizations like the American Institute of Architects and EntreArchitect, and industry newspapers like Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce and DJC Oregon.

Prior to consulting, Flattery was marketing director for Bassetti Architects for nine years.

Parametrix

Morkert

Reynolds

Lisa Reynolds has joined Parametrix as a program manager with the firm's Advisory Services practice, providing owner advisory, business process improvement, organization development, and strategic consulting services to public agencies across the United States.

Reynolds has 30 years of experience in the environmental sector, including environmental permitting, compliance, and licensing; capital program planning; regional coordination; workforce development; allocation of investigation; and response costs at hazardous waste sites in the public and private sectors.

She comes to Parametrix from HDR Engineering, where she served as a utility planning lead. In this role, she provided utility planning support to municipal water and wastewater utilities, contributed to task order development, and conducted quality control reviews. Prior to that, she served as a principal engineer with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Her expertise involves wastewater, environmental management, and quality control in design and implementation of utility projects.

Reynold's holds a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University Global and a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She is certified by the Society of Human Resources Management and holds a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace certificate from the University of South Florida.

Parametrix has promoted Brian Morkert to director of information technology. Morkert brings over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and digital transformation to the role, along with a proven track record of leadership within the firm.

Since joining Parametrix in 2015 as a senior consultant, Morkert has played a role in strengthening the firm's cybersecurity posture, modernizing infrastructure, enhancing service delivery, and helping drive innovation across business operations. He has also played a key leadership role in expanding client-facing data science initiatives, delivering custom dashboards, predictive analytics models, and technology solutions that directly support project delivery and client success.

In his new role, Morkert will oversee Parametrix's cybersecurity, infrastructure, and IT support functions. He will also guide the firm's broader technology strategy — advancing digital delivery capabilities, integrating AI-driven tools, and enabling seamless, secure collaboration across offices and project teams.

PLS Engineering

Weitzel

PLS Engineering has hired Jacob Weitzel. Weitzel is graduating from Oregon State University in June, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a minor in Economics. He will work part-time until graduation and will start his full-time career with PLS this summer.

His internships have included working with a local builder as a land development intern providing land plats, quantity takeoffs and assisting with reports in this department. He also worked with a civil and marine company on an outfall project in Wilsonville providing turbidity monitoring of the Willamette River and helped receive and compile daily reports from subcontractors.

Weitzel is an ASCE member as well as a member of NASTT.