Jan 15, 1999

Unico Properties

Chris Holden has joined Unico Properties as general manager of the 1.6-million-square-foot Metropolitan Tract in downtown Seattle. Holden, a 15-year real estate veteran, had worked as senior director of the Northwest region of CB Richard Ellis. The Metropolitan Tract is owned by the University of Washington and is comprised of the Rainier Tower, Rainier Square, Financial Center, IBM Building, Cobb Medical Center, Skinner Building and the Puget Sound Plaza. Polly McCarthy is Unico's new director of communications. She will lead and manage the public relations, marketing and advertising for every division of the company's offices in Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma and Renton as well as Unico Construction. She was the production manager for Westin Hotels & Resorts and has 15 years' experience in the hospitality and print media fields.

Lynnwood Mortgage

Lynnwood Mortgage has named Rhonda Baker senior loan officer at the Everett branch and Betty Hugel senior loan officer at the Silverdale branch. Also at Everett, Kim Newton was promoted to loan processor. Baker had been with Cornerstone Management in Everett where she was the top producing loan officer in 1997 and 1998. Hugel had worked for Washington Mutual in Silverdale. Newton was promoted after one year of providing administrative support in the Everett office.

Realty One/Keller Williams Realty

Realty One, an independent, full-service real estate brokerage in Gig Harbor, has affiliated with Keller Williams Realty, a national firm that is establishing itself in the Northwest. Realty One is owned by John and Carole Holmaas and Dave Morris. They have a total of 90 years of real estate experience. Keller Williams, which is based in Austin, Texas, has one office in Bellevue staffed with 30 consultants. It has plans for 40 offices in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.

Seattle Mortgage

Seattle Mortgage recently arranged $733,000 in permanent financing for the Air Van Building in Everett. The 25,605-square-foot building industrial building is owned by Paul and Constance Zimmerman and Anthony Kahmann and will continue with Air Van Lines as its tenant. Skip Slavin closed the deal. Seattle Mortgage also arranged for $1 million in permanent financing for the Fourth Avenue West Mobile Home Park, also in Everett. McLaughlin 4th Street Estates LLC owns the property. John Henkle closed the deal.

Windermere Real Estate

Windermere has launched a website -- seasunandsnow.com -- to help buyers and renters locate vacation and retirement homes in Northwest destination communities from the San Juan Islands to Sun Valley, Idaho. In March, Windermere plans to publish a magazine, Lifestyle Northwest, to showcase properties listed on the website. Windermere pioneered online real estate services in 1994 with the first searchable database of homes.

Jan 14, 1999

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Kathleen S. Sims has joined Foster Pepper & Shefelman as an associate practicing in real estate in the Seattle office. She has experience in lending, leasing and acquisitions and previously practiced in Rochester, N.Y. Susan Wright has joined the firm as an associate in litigation in the Seattle office. She has experience in commercial, aviation, product liability and technical cases.

Rezworks

Rezworks, a Seattle based travel and reservation technologies firm, has acquired GetawayZone.com, a Berkeley, Calif., company that operates a Web site for ski and snow vacations. Rezworks' http://www.vacationspot.com allows users to find and book vacation properties. Steve Murch, president and CEO of Rezworks, said the acquisition gives his firm talent, vacation properties and access to reservations technology. Six GetawayZone.com employees have joined Rezworks in Seattle.

Jan 13, 1999

Fisher & Sons

Warren Brehmer has joined Fisher & Sons of Burlington as project superintendent for a new 200,000-square-foot engineered wood products plant for Pacific Woodtech, and Joey Baker has been hired a clerk-of-the-works for the project. Susan Luvera-Chiabai has been promoted to marketing administrator with the firm. She was previously with Prescott and Colliers International. Beth Greatorex has replaced Luvera-Chiabai as contracts administrator.