Aug 21, 2003

Washington Retail Seminar

The postponed, 15th annual Washington Retail Seminar is set for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center on the downtown Seattle waterfront. A main theme will be customer loyalty programs. Speakers will include Brian Johnson of Alaska Airlines' Mileage Plan, Bill Winkelman of Starbucks' loyalty program and Russell Libby of ARG/Cormack, who will also discuss employee loyalty. A panel moderated by Randy Carucci and Donald Becka will address mold remediation in retail properties. For more information, call Summit Law Group at (206) 676-7007.

S-J Management

Michael Sauter's S-J Management LLC, a Seattle-based apartment investment and management firm, sold the 148-unit Erlands Point Apartments in Bremerton to Michael Wensman's Earlands Point Apartments LLC. The price equals $61,486 per unit, which Sauter said is highest ever in Bremerton. S-J bought the complex at 300 Austin Drive in August 1999 for $7,15 million, or $48,311 per unit.

John L. Scott

Brooks

Cervantes-Patel

Kraght

Regina Brooks became a residential sales agent in John L. Scott Real Estate's Lynnwood office. Lili Cervantes-Patel started selling in the firm's Lynnwood Center office. Five agents joined the Kingston office: Kathy Butler, Norma Butler, Diane Nathan, John Clear and Steve Kraght. Three started in Laurelhurst: Tom Spain, Paul Harvey McLaughlin and Kurt Lantz.

Leland Consulting Group

Chris Zahas was promoted to senior associate at Leland Consulting Group, a Portland, Ore.-based real estate strategies provider. Zahas is Leland's lead project manager. He's currently working on transit-oriented development near light rail stations for the Sacramento Regional Transit District and on creating incentives for urban housing development in Boise for Boise's urban renewal agency. He recently worked with Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in writing a downtown development strategy and helped structure public-private partnerships in Bellingham and Spokane.

Leland also promoted Melinda Plummer to associate in its Portland office. Plummer is an architect who serves as the firm's liaison with architectural firms. She's working on phase two of Moses Lake's downtown revitalization and on the Boise housing incentives. Liland hired Jonathan Williams as senior analyst in Portland. Williams came from Sam Schwartz Co. of New York City, where he prepared environmental assessment documents for the reconstruction of East River Pier 15 and public outreach material for construction of the AirTrain to John F. Kennedy Airport. Williams recently received his master's degree in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Aug 14, 2003

Williams Marketing

Tom Zbaren was hired as sales manager of Williams Marketing's 17-agent sales staff. The 20-year veteran of residential and commercial real estate sales will provide administrative support, training and leadership to the sales agents. He came from Hebert Research. Seattle-based Williams specializes in condominium and town home marketing and sales.

Sonata Capital Group

Steve Wood and W. Daniel Heidt joined the advisory board of Sonata Capital Group, a Seattle-based registered investment adviser. Wood is managing director of the Seattle real estate services firm Century Pacific LP. He's also a director of Legacy Funds and Harbor Mountain LLC. Heidt was most recently chief operating officer of MagnaDrive Corp., and before that executive vice president of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. He sits on the boards of Pacific Northwest Ballet and PONCHO.

Quadrant Corp.

Natalie Fischer was promoted at Quadrant Corp. to broker outreach manager. She'll assist in managing Quadrant's Preferred Agent Program with Windermere Builder Sales Group for Quadrant's eight single-family residential projects. She'll also manage Quadrant's military base outreach program in the south Puget Sound area. Fischer reports to Ken Krivanec, vice president of marketing. She had been working the past two years as broker outreach representative for two Quadrant residential projects, Redmond Ridge and Snoqualmie Ridge. Before Quadrant, Fischer worked for the Seattle Sonics, the Harlem Globetrotters and Southwest Airlines. Fischer holds a B.A. in communication from Western Washington University and is a licensed real estate agent with Windermere Builder Sales Group.

NoteWorld Servicing

Fischer

NoteWorld Servicing Center of Tacoma, which services seller-financed mortgage, added a branch outlet to its Tacoma headquarters location. The company, a subsidiary of the New York mortgage and investment service company C-BASS, named Shirley Colson to manage the new branch and serve as an escrow specialist. Twenty-year-old NoteWorld collects payments from buyers and distributes the funds to sellers, issues buyer and seller statements and late-payment notices and provides year-end tax records. The company has branches in Oregon, California and Arizona. NoteWorld also named Paul Hoffman as its Northwest regional sales manager.

Banner Bank

SaLee Mills was promoted to assistant vice president and real estate loan officer in Banner Bank's Kennewick loan center. Mills has more than 10 years of experience in the banking industry. Prior to joining Banner in 1999, she worked with Executive Mortgage/Roger Gray and Associates, Washington Mutual and the First Alabama Bank subsidiary Real Estate Financing. Mills holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Central Washington University.