Feb 23, 1999

Hart Crowser expanding California office

SEATTLE -- The Long Beach, Calif. office of Hart Crowser has added two civil engineers, Gene Lacey, Jr. and Hari Gupta. Lacey is a senior associate engineer and manager of industrial services, and Gupta is a project engineer. Prior to joining Hart Crowser, Lacey was a principal remediation engineer for Dukek & Associates in Encinitas, Calif. In his new position he is responsible for municipal and industrial projects involving environmental remediation, wastewater treatment and reuse, and civil engineering/infrastructure work. Gupta comes from the waste management group at Woodward-Clyde, where he was a senior project engineer working on soil and groundwater investigations, remediation system design and site assessments. At Hart Crowser he is responsible for site investigations and cleanup of commercial and industrial properties in Southern California.

Cushman & Wakefield

Per Bjorn-Roli was recently appointed appraiser in the valuation advisory services group for the Seattle office at Cushman & Wakefield. Bjorn-Roli formerly served as an appraiser at Kincaid & Reily in Alaska. Cushman & Wakefield is a real estate valuation and consulting group.

Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co.

Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Co. recently appointed Angelica Bondurant account manager in the Bellevue office. Bondurant formerly served as a realtor with John L. Scott.

Feb 19, 1999

Coldwell Banker Bain

Tere Foster, associate broker for Coldwell Banker Bain in the Bellevue office, is the company's 1998 No. 1 agent. She sold more than $61 million in residential real estate last year. It was the fifth consecutive year she finished in the top 1 percent locally and nationally.

Unico Properties

James Rock has joined Unico Properties as the senior property manager for the firm's Eastside holdings that total 600,000 square feet of office and retail. He has 11 years of experience managing up to 3 million square feet of real estate. He has been senior property manager for Columbia West Properties and Bentall U.S. and vice president/general manager with Colliers Real Estate Services.

Pinnacle Realty Management Co.

Seattle-based Pinnacle Realty Management had one of its best years in 1998 as its 30-member brokerage department handled nearly $800 million in commercial and multifamily transactions. That's nearly a 100-percent increase over 1997's $423 million total. Comprised of 63 deals in markets from Washington state to Washington, D.C., the total included 10,150 multifamily units, 6.4 million square feet of commercial and 81 acres of undeveloped land. Of the company's six regions, the Northwest led the pack with a total of $509 million.

Feb 17, 1999

Ferguson Construction

Seattle's Ferguson Construction has added two employees to its executive team. Chris Raftery is the new executive vice president and Don Surina is the new director of construction operations. Prior to joining the firm, both held senior management positions at Hoffman Construction. Raftery will put his 29 years of industry experience to work by overseeing all aspects of Ferguson Construction while expanding the company's activity in preconstruction services, and office and mixed-use developments. Surina, who has 25 years of experience, will be responsible for all construction operations in the seven western and southwestern states served by the company.