Nov 03, 1999

EMRA

Dale Paul, senior architect and CAD manager, has been promoted to an associate at EMRA after one year with the firm. Paul has experience with aviation, transit, convention centers, public assembly and hotel projects. His current transit responsibilities include two Sound Transit Link tunnel stations. His past work includes architecture and CAD management and production for the HNTB Corp. in Bellevue. James Cave has been hired as a senior architect. Cave will be serving as EMRA's project architect on the Sound Transit Link Central Maintenance Facility and the Federal Way Transit Center's park-and-ride structure and mixed-use projects. Before joining EMRA, he has worked for David Nordfors Architects. Richard Jones recently joined the firm as a CAD technician. Prior to joining the EMRA, he worked for MHA. EMRA is a Seattle-based architecture, planning and urban design firm. Its work is focused primarily on institutional projects, which include transit/transportation facilities, related mixed-use developments and civic facilities.

Nov 02, 1999

Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson

Two associates joined the Seattle law firm, Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson. Michelle S. Chang is a recent graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and will concentrate her practice on real estate and business matters. D. Christian Addicott joins the practice to concentrate on real estate and commercial litigation. Addicott clerked for a U.S. District Court judge before joining the firm.

Nov 01, 1999

Short Cressman & Burgess

Seattle law firm, Short Cressman & Burgess has added Paul E. Brain and John E. Oswald as of counsel and Michael J. Layton as an associate. Brain concentrates his practice in the areas of securities, real estate and shareholder/partnership disputes. Oswald joins the firms real estate practice group and will concentrate on real estate business transactions and environmental law. Layton has a business and litigation practice in the federal and superior courts of Washington, encompassing business, corporate, real estate, securities and e-commerce.

Oct 29, 1999

Crown West Realty

National Refractories & Minerals Corp. has opened a regional distribution center in the Spokane Business and Industrial Park, and Fibertech, a long term tenant of the park, will expand its operation there, according to Crown West Realty. California-based National Refractories will take 10,000 square feet for their business of manufacturing heat-resistant materials for industrial furnaces. Fibertech, a fiberglass reinforcement and plywood panel manufacturer, will grow from 40,000 square feet to over 120,000 square feet.

Windermere

Robin Schousboe has joined Windermere Real Estate's Wall Street office in Seattle as a sales associate. Schousboe previously worked for John L. Scott in Seattle.

WAR Realtor of the Year

Pat Lewis, a broker and owner of Century 21 Piazza Realty in Burlington, was named the Washington Association of Realtors' 1999 Washington Realtor of the Year. The honor goes to the Realtor demonstrating the highest level of commitment to the local, state and national Realtor associations. Lewis has served on the Burlington City Council and Planning Commission and is an active member of the Burlington Chamber of Commerce. Others cited were: Rose Galloway of Federal Way, winner of the Eddie Award, for contributions to Realtor Contributing Education; Pili Meyer of Port Angeles, winner of the Hugh Hawkins Award that goes to an instructor who best exemplifies the values Hawkins brought to the classroom; Seattle/King County Association of Realtor member Shirley Hopkins and Whatcom County Association member Greg Grant, winners of Realtor Community Service plaques; Whatcom County Water District No. 10-Sudden Valley won the Partnership of the Year Award for its years-long efforts to build 760 new homes; Ed Murphy of the Seattle/King County Association of Realtors, winner of the Realtor Achievement Award to recognize his 21 years of leadership roles to his local organization as well as state and national Realtor organizations; and Michael Erickson of Whatcom County Land Title, winner of the Affiliate of the Year.

Marcus & Millichap

Neil and Patricia Goodsell of Lake Stevens have sold the Cady Arms, an 18-unit apartment complex at 6927 E. Cady Road in Everett, to Isabel Knudson of Lynnwood for $710,625. Martin Higgins of the Bellevue office of Marcus & Millichap Investment Brokerage Co., represented the sellers.

LandAmerica

Peter Ostrander, LandAmerica Financial Group's vice president of sales for the National Commercial Services Division in Seattle, was elected to the Board of Directors of NAIOP. The election was during the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties' recent convention in Seattle. Ostrander formerly was vice president-commercial sales manager for Transnation Title Insurance Co.'s operation in King and Snohomish counties. He is a longtime Seattle resident and is a member of the board of the Washington State NAIOP chapter and was 1998 president of the Pacific Real Estate Institute.

Cushman & Wakefield

Charlie Hampton has joined Cushman & Wakefield in the company's brokerage services career development program and will focus on office leasing and sales in the Seattle office. He was formerly with Grubb & Ellis as director of research and information services.

Raskin & Associates

Commercial real estate broker Bret Jordan has left Colliers International to join his former colleague Bruce Raskin at Raskin & Associates in Bellevue. He will be a principal and owner in the firm which is projected to grow to 10 people by the end of the year. Jordan was named Rookie of the Year at Colliers in 1991 and over the next seven out of eight years he closed more deals than any other Colliers agent in the metropolitan Seattle/Bellevue region, with more than 670 transactions. Last year he was one of Colliers top producers nationwide, representing clients such as Hines and Cosmos Development.