Mar 19, 2003

Washington Parks and Recreation Association

Pierce County Councilmember Calvin Goings will be honored by the Washington Parks and Recreation Association next month for his work in passing state and county legislation to support parks. He will receive the Legislative Citation of Merit April 24 at the WPRA conference in Stevenson. Goings drafted the "zoo tax" which generates $9 million a year for the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium and other parks in the county, and helped draft a real estate excise tax that generates $3 million a year for road construction and parks.

Mar 18, 2003

Seattle Repertory Theatre

The Seattle Repertory Theatre has five new trustees on its board and one former trustee returning to the board. Clodagh C. Ash is a sustaining member of the Seattle Repertory Organization. Lisa Graziose Corrin is deputy director of the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum. Linda Martin is a senior consultant in the Seattle office of Towers Perrin, a management consulting firm. Lauren Selig is a member of the steering committee of The Crew, the Rep's subscriber group of under-40 professionals, and works for Martin Selig Real Estate. Marty Taucher is founder of Taucher Consulting. Richard L. Weisman is returning to the board. He is founder of Lerand Securities.

Mar 13, 2003

Coldwell Banker Commercial Danforth

Debbie Ranniger became a Kent Valley industrial broker for Coldwell Banker Commercial Danforth & Associates, working out of Federal Way. Ranniger is also a candidate for the Kent City Council and was the owner of Ranniger's Kent Nursery. The property that housed the nursery, proposed to someday be redeveloped as a medical, dental and retail complex, is up for sale for $1.55 million

Seattle Mortgage

Seattle Mortgage Co. promoted Sarah Hulbert to vice president. Hulbert is the firm's national director in charge of its reverse mortgage division. The company also hired Susan D’Angelo, who has nine years of reverse mortgage experience, as operations manager to handle day-to-day demands of the division. The reverse mortgage department has grown by more than 300 percent under Hulbert's direction and continues expanding, said senior vice president John Nixon. Reverse mortgages allow homeowners of at least 62 years old to take equity out of their homes as tax-free income. Hulbert recently became chair of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America's Reverse Mortgage Lenders Advisory Group for 2003. She's also co-chair for National Reverse Mortgage Lenders of America.

WSU, UW presidents will speak

Washington State University President Lane Rawlins and University of Washington acting President Lee Huntsman will speak about challenges facing the two universities at the Economic Development Council of Seattle & King County's next quarterly breakfast. The event, called "A Conversation with the Presidents," is scheduled for 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 24, at the Elliott Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Seattle. Kirsta Glenn, chief economist for the state Department of Employment Security, will provide a second-quarter economic update at the breakfast. For information, call (206) 389-8655.

March 19 meeting on Pioneer Square plan

Downtown Seattle developers William Justen and Greg Smith will tell the Pioneer Square Preservation Board about their recently proposed plan for redeveloping Pioneer Square and areas surrounding it on Wednesday, March 19. The long-range plan envisions building thousands of housing units throughout the area and converting the Port of Seattle's sprawling Terminal 46 from cargo into a dense, urban village of housing, hotels, offices, retail, a park and more. The preservation board scheduled the briefing for 9:45 a.m. in the Arctic Building in downtown Seattle.

Insignia Kidder Mathews

Commercial appraiser Stan Sidor joined Insignia Kidder Mathews' valuation advisory division. The 23-year professional will work in Tacoma valuing office, industrial, retail and multi-family properties. Sidor holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and is a certified general real estate appraiser. He has completed the required course work of the Appraisal Institute.

Bank of America

William Griffin joined Bank of America's new Seattle residential lending office as sales manager. The office makes mortgages on single-family homes and small multi-family structures of up to four units. Griffin previously worked 3.5 years as a branch manager and loan underwriter for Countrywide Home Loans and three years as a branch manager for Washington Mutual.

Lorig Associates

Mehta

Tejal Mehta joined Lorig Associates as assistant project manager working on a new apartment-style residence hall for Seattle Pacific University, as well as a housing project on Market Street, near the University of Washington's Tacoma campus. Mehta has eight years of experience in project management. She most recently worked as a project manager for Otak Inc. in Seattle. She holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Oklahoma and a master's in architecture from the University of Washington. Mehta sits on the Pioneer Square Preservation Board.