Feb 19, 2003

Short Cressman & Burgess

Mark J. Barak, recently joined the Seattle law firm Short Cressman & Burgess and will be practicing in the Real Estate section. Short Cressman has been serving the community for 87 years, in areas such as business, commercial litigation, real estate, tax, estate planning and family law.

Feb 13, 2003

Sage

Tomey

Val Tomey joined Sage Real Estate Strategies as one of the new Seattle-based firm's five principals. Tomey rejoins Jim Norman, Sage's founder, with whom she worked in the 1990s at The Norman Co. as general manager of the 76-story Bank of America Tower. Norman sold the Norman Co. to Trammell Crow in the late 1990s. He retired until forming Sage last year, while Tomey stayed with Trammell as a senior vice president and alliance director on the Swedish Medical Center account. Tomey managed assignments for other clients such as Microsoft and KeyCorp. As an International Habitat for Humanity volunteer, Tomey has helped build homes in Poland, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere.

Lorig Associates

Osborne

George Osborne was promoted to one of four principals of Lorig Associates, a Seattle urban development firm. The 17-year veteran joins Bruce Lorig, Harris Hoffman and Hal Ferris as principals. Osborne oversees technical aspects of development projects during design and construction and runs maintenance for 1,800 apartments and 350,000 square feet of commercial space. Osborne has worked on Uwajimaya Village, Queen Anne High School Apartments, Seattle Tennis Club renovation, Victoria Townhomes and Condominiums, and the Thurston County Courthouse.

Trammell Crow

Trammell Crow Senior Vice President Tom Pehl was promoted to principal in the Seattle office. Pehl joined Trammell in December 1999 supporting corporate clients in the western U.S. He became deputy alliance director for the Group Health Cooperative account, and alliance director in late 2000, heading a team of 100 associates, and group leader in August 2002. As a principal, he'll continue working on Group Health and other key investor and corporate relationships in the Seattle area.

Bowers Realty

In Chehalis, evangelist and former Yard Birds Mall manager Jerry Van Ronk joined Bowers Realty as a commercial broker. "I desire to be part of the exciting growth (of Lewis County) over the next decade," said Van Ronk, whose experience includes being a general contractor remodeling repossessed property, retail management and leasing. A Bowers announcement said he is better known in the Lewis County area as an evangelist and speaker in several area churches.

Preview Properties

Preview Properties' Bothell-Mill Creek office added 16 new residential sales associates: Noelle Song, Thomas Klein, Cindy Nguyen, Richard Vanasek (from John L. Scott), Donald Clark (from C-21 Smith/Ring), Richard Turner, Ralph Ehrlich, Ken Casalicchio (from C-21 Stars), Jim Rosholt (from RE/MAX), Kay Rosholt (from RE/MAX), Kim Pulliam, Jacob Predmore, Michael Gregory (from Windermere WRE), Brian Bystrom (from Coldwell Banker), Gloria Rueda and Marie Smith.

Seven people joined Preview's Marysville office: Barbara Alfond, Jan Bindus (from Keller Williams), Chris Smith, Curtis Williamson, Bruce Guest (from Windermere), Linda Hamilton (from Shaw & Associates) and Susan VanBuskirk. The Stanwood office also hired seven: Timothy Adrian, Randy Jacobsen, Carol and Traci Monnick, Mark Brunner, Jay Slack and Lloyd Wooden.

In Everett, the firm's largest office, hired: Stephanie Costnor, Leslie Lytle (from Windermere), Carol Young (from C-21), Chris Ervine, Richard Steigenga (from C-21), Patty Monteith (from RE/MAX), Josie Hernandez (from RE/MAX), Jene Elliott (from C-21 North Homes) and Linda Senter (from RE/MAX).

Preview's corporate sales center added: Maria Corcorro, Tron Leaf, David Van Liew, Hellmut Pedersen (from C-21), John Sullivan, Tami Tuck (from C-21) and Samir Wehbe.

John L. Scott

Martha Viola became a sales associate in John L. Scott Real Estate's Belltown office. Four people joined the firm's Bellevue North office: Matt Stapleton, Nicole Young, Catherine Bunch and Kate Johnson. Heather Eul started in the Bellevue South office.

Xiao Li Gish and Cindy Farrow started at Bonney Lake/Lake Tapps. In Burien, Sherry Johnson, Bill Darnell and Kalina Brown became sales associates. Roberta Wagner signed on at Gig Harbor. Clayton Walker and Dave Hackett joined the Highlands office.

Eileen Tefft began selling in Issaquah. Susan Troka started in Kingston. Kimberly Salazar, Abby Gorder and Shannon Fralin joined the Kirkland office.

Watermark Credit Union

Watermark Credit Union will hold a grand opening ceremony on Feb. 26 at its new location at 18801 Alderwood Mall Parkway in Lynnwood. The not-for-profit credit union recently changed its name from Seattle Telco Credit Union and has additional branches in downtown Seattle, Redmond, Southcenter and Bellevue.