Nov 29, 2001

Quadrant

Lisa S. Verner, AICP has been named director of planning for Snoqualmie Ridge, in charge of directing entitlements for the second phase of the 1,340-acre planned community. She will also manage consulting and budgeting matters, as well as relationships with the city of Snoqualmie and members of the community.

Verner has worked for more than 20 years in the real estate industry, as an owner/user, speculative developer, public planning official and land use consultant. Most recently, she was principal of Commercial Development Solutions, a Seattle-based consulting firm she founded in 1990, which provided project management and entitlement services for clients such as Opus Northwest, Trammell Crow Co., AT&T Wireless, Puget Sound Energy and Port Blakely Communities. Verner has also worked for Metropolitan King County and the city of Bothell.

Verner will report to George Sherwin, senior vice president at Snoqualmie Ridge.

Snoqualmie Ridge is being developed by Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company and managed by its subsidiary Quadrant.

Equity Office Properties Trust

Susan Murphy is on the move again. Murphy joined Equity Office Properties Trust as vice president of leasing for the Seattle region, moving over from leasing director for Seattle-based Wright Runstad & Co. Murphy has worked 25 years in real estate, 17 of them for Wright Runstad, though she left the development company a couple of years ago to take a real estate executive job at Amazon.com and then returned to Wright Runstad last year. EOP, a huge, Chicago-based office building owner that ranks as the Seattle-area's largest office landlord, assumed management of its Seattle-area properties almost a year ago from Wright Runstad, which has numerous links to EOP going back to Wright Runstad selling most of its buildings to EOP several years ago. The property management change left Wright Runstad with a rather small amount of space for which it conducts leasing. EOP's Pat Callahan, head of the Chicago-based office property owner's Seattle-area office, said: "It was more than expected that Susan Murphy would be offered the position."

R.W. Robideaux and Co.

River Park Square, Spokane's downtown shopping center, has a new national leasing director. The center's management company, R.W. Robideaux and Co., named to the post. Claypool has 14 years of marketing and real estate experience in West Coast cities. River Park is entering its final phase of initial leasing, Robideaux said.

John L. Scott

Silzars	Harlan	Carter	Nofziger
Golik	Geldenhuys	Behling-Krainess	Abbott

Ten new sales agents started at John L. Scott Real Estate's Bellevue office: Sean Ly, Keith Hanson, Sherry Carter, Greg Abbott, Gary Ross, Dawn Nofziger, Derek Geldenhuys, Sally Silzars, Kim Golik and Bill Harlan. Loraine Behling-Krainess joined the Bellevue South office as a sales agent.

Nov 28, 2001

Department of Neighborhoods

A new program, Community Nights at Schools, allows noncommercial community groups access to public schools for meetings and events. Currently, 26 schools are available for reservations. The program charges a $10 booking fee. Groups using the program are encouraged to donate time and resources to the schools they use. Applications are available by e-mail from: sandra.boas-dupree@ci.seattle.wa.us.

Starbucks

Starbucks newest location at Westlake Center is open after a re-model of the space previously housing Seattle's Best Coffee. The store on the plaza was designed to be bright and open. Starbucks expects the store to play a key roll in upcoming downtown holiday events. Starbucks is accepting toy donations to its Holiday Angels Toy Drive at this and all locations.

Nov 15, 2001

Seattle Goodwill

Seattle Goodwill promoted Anne Marie Davis to vice president of marketing and development. She previously was director of marketing and development. Goodwill also announced two new board members: Anne Jannetti, project director for Spieker Properties, and Heather Howard, an attorney for Boeing.

John L. Scott

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Doan

Forehand

Craig Forehand became manager of John L. Scott Real Estate's Magnolia office. The 15-year veteran of residential real estate came from ReMax, where he was a sales associate. Previously, he worked as branch manager and part owner of Home Realty Services, which operated two offices and an escrow and mortgage company. Forehand's family has lived in Seattle for four generations.

Barney Becker is a new sales agent in John L. Scott's Lake Stevens office. Ken Doan, Daniel Sessoms and Jaydee Jepsen joined the firm's Lynnwood office as sales agents, while Joe Preciado joined the Lynnwood West office. Four new agents joined the Laurelhurst office: Laura Fellows, Brian Hauer, Rob Holmstrom and Kris Hoffmann.

NAIOP looks at capital markets

Panelists will discuss "Capital Direction: Where is the Money Flowing in 2002?" at the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties' next monthly breakfast, set for Wednesday, Nov. 21, at the Bellevue Club southeast of downtown Bellevue. Karl Smith of Russell Real Estate Services, Richard Hass of Kennedy Associates and Paul Capeloto of Moss Adams will speak as a panel of investment managers. Registration begins at 7 a.m., with the program running from 7:30 to 9 a.m. For information, call NAIOP at (206) 382-9121.

The legalities of leasing

On Dec. 4 and 5 in Portland, The Seminar Group will provide a legal conference called "A Practical Guide to Commercial Leasing, Negotiation, Documentation and Enforcement." The event will be in the Embassy Suites Hotel. For information, call (800) 574-4852.

Then on Dec. 6 and 7 in Portland, The Seminar Group will hold its sixth annual Oregon Land Use Law, covering "a variety of land-use matters, from access management and successful permitting strategies to prominent land-use cases." U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer will provide the keynote address. The gathering will be at the Governor Hotel. For information, call (206) 463-4400 or see http://www.theseminargroup.net.

Prudential MacPherson's

Lorelei Windhorn became a residential sales associate in Prudential MacPherson's Auburn office. Tommy Chen and John Lisle joined the Renton office, also as sales associates. Irnia Zilanova became a sales associate in Shoreline, while Jennifer Lucier and Samantha MacIntosh joined the Woodinville office.

Civia Media Group

Anthony Bontrager joined Civia Media Group of Seattle as vice president for market development, in charge of expansion of Civia's national network of media terminals in office buildings, hotels, retail centers, airports and elsewhere. Bontrager came from Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., where he was vice president of real estate operations. Before that he worked in acquisitions for JM Consulting Group.

MAME awards

The Borgata Apartments by Ron Davis of SeaMark Properties became one of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties' three Community of the Year winners by taking this year's Major Achievement in Marketing Award in the "multi-family urban" category. Lozier Homes won the "multi-family suburban" Community of the Year MAME for Huckleberry Circle at Issaquah Highlands. Port Blakely Communities, master developer of Issaquah Highlands, won the "single-family" Community of the Year MAME for Woodside. MAMEs recognize successful marketing, advertising, construction, landscape and design in home building.