Oct 03, 2003

Metropolitan Improvement District

The Metropolitan Improvement District named Mark Houtchens, president of Vance Corp., chair of the MID advisory board. First Vice Chair Chailee Davidson, property manager for Maritime Associates, and Vice Chair John Chadwick, employment director for the YMCA, were also elected into office. New MID advisory board members include Jo Thompson, general manager of the Pioneer Square Best Western; John Scholl, president of Big Ink; and Mark Barbieri, senior vice president of Washington Holdings.

Oct 02, 2003

Boeing Realty

Powers

John Powers became a development manager at Boeing Realty Corp., responsible for overseeing development projects in the Puget Sound area from concept to completion. Powers came from Sound Ventures, where he was manager of development services. His 13 years of experience also include two years as a senior project manager at Berschauer Phillips Construction, six as project manager at Lydig Construction and two as project engineer at M.A. Mortenson. He holds a 1989 bachelor's degree from the University of Washington.

Norris Beggs & Simpson

Dougherty

Kara Dougherty was promoted to public relations and marketing specialist for Norris, Beggs & Simpson in Portland. Dougherty graduated from Princeton University in June 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in history. She grew up in New York and moved to Portland last fall. She began working in market research for Norris Beggs in March. Norris Beggs is a commercial brokerage. It operates a commercial mortgage office in Bellevue.

L.J. Melody

L.J. Melody & Co. arranged $26 million in permanent financing on two of Tarragon Development's warehouse buildings in the 1.6 million-square-foot Valley South Corporate Park distribution center in Sumner. The two buildings total 628,000 square feet. Security on the loan included an adjacent truck parking facility. CIGNA Investments funded the loan. Mary McDonald of Melody's San Francisco office and Lois Townsend of the commercial mortgage broker's Seattle office arranged the deal.

John L. Scott

Kevin Pind is a new residential sales associate in John L. Scott Real Estate's Issaquah office. Ryan Parris joined the firm's Bellevue South office. The Bellevue Place office added Scott Campbell and Catie Stevens. Kat Grant-Fuller joined the Kirkland office.

Sep 25, 2003

First American Properties

Pilara

Scott Pilara joined Steve Ruggiero's Poulsbo-based First American Properties in marketing power centers and other retail projects around the Northwest and providing retail tenant representation. Pilara previously worked in equity research at Banc of America Securities in San Francisco. He holds bachelor's degrees in accounting and finance from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Projects Pilara will work on include the 215-acre master-planned College Marketplace in north Kitsap County and the new Masin's store in downtown Bellevue. He'll also work on the sale and redevelopment of 24 Emporium department stores throughout the Northwest and the opening of Circuit City and OfficeMax stores around the Puget Sound area.

Land-use law seminar at Seattle U

The Seattle University School of Law will hold a Nov. 7 program on "Recent Developments in Land-Use Law: GMA, SMA, SEPA and Constitutional Limitations." The seminar will focus on how government regulation affects real estate and community development. It will cover recent activity on the state's Growth Management Act, the Shoreline Management Act and the State Environmental Policy Act. The target audience is lawyers. Presenters will include Alan Copsey of the state Attorney General's Office, Adrienne Quinn of Buck & Gordon, Richard Settle of Foster Pepper & Shefelman and Jeffrey Eustis. The program will run from noon to 4:15 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7., at the law school's Room C-6. For information, call Shawn Lipton at (206) 398-4092 or go to www.law.seattle.edu/cle.

Windermere

LaChasse

Nicole LaChasse joined Windermere Real Estate's Ballard office as a sales associate. LaChasse was previously a senior pharmaceutical consultant in Seattle with Glaxo Smith Kline Pharmaceuticals.

Keller Williams

Keller Williams Realty added 22 residential sales agents to its southeast sound office in Renton: David Hwang, Hien Phan, Marsha Andrews, Amy Greenberg, Chris Robison, Michael Irvine, Richard Mendoza, Kari Collins, Phyllis Hay, Corey and Quiana Mackey, Dan Wolf, Laura Worthington, Deborah Buckley, Sandra Hawkshaw, Vicky Rowland, Frank Velasques, Chris Monck, Chris Bell, Viktoriya Prokazyuk, Raymond Huynh and Tuyet Luong.