Jan 27, 1999

Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen

Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen recently added Brandon J. Hollis and Roxanna Nowparast as associates in the Seattle office. Sarah Weaver, who concentrates her practice in bankruptcy and real estate law, was recently added as counsel.

Jan 26, 1999

Opus Northwest

Opus Northwest has made some personnel changes. Dave Kessler and John Gordon have been promoted to senior project managers and Harvey Nelson has been hired as a senior project manager. Kessler, a former project manager, is responsible for overseeing the development and construction of office and industrial projects in the Puget Sound area. He also is overseeing design and feasibility of new projects under development. Gordon, also a former project manager, is now responsible for the company's projects in the south Puget Sound region. He is in charge of Emerald Corporate Park and Fife Landing. Nelson is overseeing construction of the Sammamish ParkPlace project being built for Vulcan Northwest in Issaquah.

Jan 22, 1999

CB Richard Ellis

Ann Chamberlin has been promoted to senior managing director of CB Richard Ellis' Seattle-area offices. She is one of the few women to rise to a regional management position for a major real estate firm and the only one in the Pacific Northwest. Chamberlin said her goal is to recruit new talent and retain what she called existing stars. Chamberlin succeeds regional manager John Records, who has been reassigned to a California office. Greg Coxon will continue to oversee the Tukwila office as managing director and will help cover Bellevue's operations. Chamberlin remains head of the Bellevue office where she has boosted staff from seven brokers to 19, including such well-known players as Gary Danklefsen, Rob Larsen, Steve Bordner, Mike Shigley, Ken Barnes and Mark Hockman. Chamberlin said she looks forward to recruiting new talent to the Seattle office. Her promotion marks just the latest first in Chamberlin's career. When she joined the company in 1979, she worked with fellow pioneering women Joni Henry and Barbara Howell in what had long been a male-dominated field. Previously she was a public affairs manager lobbying for Intalco Aluminum, and before that she was the first female pharmaceutical representative for Burroughs Wellcome.

Commonwealth

Lori Leonard and Valerie Brown have joined Commonwealth Land Title Insurance's new escrow office at 204 S. 248th St., Suite 1, in Federal Way. Leonard has 15 years of experience with Washington Title. Brown, Leonard's assistant, also worked at Washington Title. The team specializes in residential sales.

Windermere

Geoff P. Wood is the new president of Windermere Services Co., the operations arm of Windermere Real Estate. He heads the company's nine-member executive management team and oversees day-to-day services of Windermere Services, which provides real estate, legal, marketing and financial services for Windermere's real estate network throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. He began his career with the company in a management role with the firm's original five-office operation in 1993. He was promoted to vice president two years later. Previously he worked at Timberland Homes in construction and business management.

Seattle Mortgage

Seattle Mortgage recently arranged $1.3 million in permanent financing for the Tolt Towne Center in Carnation. The 35,000-square-foot retail building, owned by Ethel Graham, will continue to include QFC as its tenant. John Henkle was the loan officer who arranged financing.

Keller Williams Realty

Rob Flick, billed by Keller Williams Realty as its "real estate coach to the stars," returns to Bellevue for a 90-minute complimentary symposium for agents and owners at 5:30 p.m. at the Bellefield Office Park Conference Center, 1150 114th Ave., in Bellevue. Keller Williams is an Austin, Texas-based national firm with plans to establish itself in the Northwest. It recently opened an office in Bellevue and affiliated with the independent brokerage Realty One in Gig Harbor. After the symposium, Flick will talk to agents more about his company.

Jan 19, 1999

Hart Crowser broadens its base

SEATTLE -- Hart Crowser, a national environmental consulting and remediation design firm with headquarters in Seattle, has hired staff in remediation engineering and relocated one of its specialists in sediment toxicology. It is part of a concerted effort to add depth and strength to the company's services. But this is also a new era at the company for another reason: Founder Ron Hart has retired, and been bought out of the firm. Ron Crowser is now president and CEO. As for the new faces, Matt Schultz has joined the firm as a senior associate remediation engineer. Formerly of Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp., he most recently managed a multi-site remediation program for the U.S. Navy. In his first assignment at Hart Crowser, he managed remediation of a former steel yard brownfield in Ballard prior to its redevelopment as a Fred Meyer store. In the firm's Portland office, Taku Fuji, a sediment toxicologist, will perform sediment quality assessments and risk assessments at hazardous waste sites. Fuji previously worked in the Seattle office of Hart Crowser for about three years. Prior to that he worked as a risk assessor for the state of New Jersey's Division of Hazardous Site Mitigation. Chuck Whittlesey, Hart Crowser's principal in charge of industrial services in Seattle, said Schultz's hiring reflects the firm's desire to provide a broader selection of program managers -- partly in response to requests from the Navy. "It's more of a bolstering and qualitative increase," he said. Whittlesey added that the firm is doing well in all five of its core business areas. Services range from due diligence to remediation design and geotechnical surveys. "We're projecting a little over 20 percent growth in our company [this year]," said Whittlesey. "We are meeting those projections now." The firm's strongest business segment is industrial -- particularly brownfield redevelopment -- followed by ports and harbors, real estate development, federal projects and mining. Locally, the firm is working on the new major league ballpark and King Street Station in Seattle, the third runway at Sea-Tac Airport, Navy shipyards, the Starwood Hotel and Bellevue development projects.

Be a sensitive-areas person

SEATTLE -- King County's Department of Development and Environmental Services will present a class on the Sensitive Areas Code on Jan. 28 and 29. Tuition is $95 and includes a field trip. For real estate agents and appraisers who need continuing-education credits, the course is worth 15 credit hours at a cost of $119. For more information call Barbara Questad, King County Land Use Services Division, (206) 296-7149.