May 30, 2002

Opus Northwest

Vall Spinosa

Terra Vall Spinosa was promoted at Opus Northwest from real estate representative to real estate manager. Vall Spinosa is working on Opus projects totaling more than 3.2 million square feet of office and warehouse space in Kent Valley and the Eastside, including Emerald Corporate Park, Opus Park 167, Opus I-90 Business Park, Sumner Landing North and Pacific Coast Corporate Park. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington and will begin the MBA program there this fall.

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Mike Flynn, an agent in John L. Scott's University Place office in Tacoma, was named the Washington Association of Realtors' 2002 Realtor of the year. Flynn serves this year as the 15,000-member association's vice president of government affairs. He has been one of the principal architects of the Quality of Life Project, an advocacy program aimed at building better communities under the state Growth Management Act. He'll also represent the National Association of Realtors at a transportation roundtable hosted by the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C. "I’m an issues-driven type of person," Flynn said. "It makes me feel good to know I’m doing my part to help make Washington a better place to live."

John L. Scott Real Estate's West Seattle office added 10 new sales associates: Jack Angus, Cara Copeland, Dave Copeland, Scott Engstrom, Joyce Gunderson, Tracey Hunter, Brian Louderback, Chris Massie, Jan Rooney and Kari Scott. Three started in the Redmond office: Joy Andersen, Curtis Patterson and Bob Ahern. Three more began in Burien: Jirapon Keokitvon, Brad Howell and Melissa Galbavy. David Markwell became a sales associate in Des Moines. Seven joined the Issaquah office: David Arnold, Eliza Stephenson, Glenn Curtis, Brenda Poskitt, Kathy Skripek, Janet Kurz and Kathleen Irish.

Candidates to hear Realtors' issues

State legislative candidates will hear about issues of importance to residential real estate agents during four noon-hour briefings organized by the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors. The sessions are Monday, June 17, at the King Country Regional Library in Bellevue; Tuesday, June 18 at the Kent Library (212 Second Ave. N.); Wednesday, June 19, at the Miller Community Center (330 19th Ave. E.); Thursday, June 20, at the Shoreline Library (345 N.E. 175th). They all run from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Attendance is by reservation. Call David Crowell at (800) 540-3277, ext. 204.

Windermere Real Estate

Robert Messmer and Mon Szeto became sales associates in Windermere Real Estate's Commercial-Metro office. Gina Ottele-McGinnis joined Windermere's Magnolia office.

May 29, 2002

Columbia Hospitality

Recent promotions and hires at Columbia Hospitality for the Bell Harbor International Conference Center include Jennifer Hansen, former event planning manager, promoted to sales manager; Kristi-Lynn Brown, previously senior sales manager for the Renaissance Madison in Seattle, was hired as a sales manager; Wayne Lee was hired as accounts payable coordinator; Natasha Jankauskas was promoted to event planning manager; and Wade Nixdorff, formerly regional manager at Eagle Guard Services, was hired as a concierge. At the World Trade Center Seattle, Columbia named Courtney Clouse, previously a concierge at Bell Harbor, as event planning manager. Columbia Hospitality managed properties include: Bell Harbor International Conference Center, World Trade Center Seattle and The Inn at Langley. It is the developer and project manager of the Washington Mutual Leadership Center at Cedarbrook

May 28, 2002

EverTrust Bank

Nall

Wilson

EverTrust Financial Group of Everett promoted Robert L. Nall to senior vice president and Kelli A. Wilson to branch administrator at EverTrust Bank. Nall will also be the bank's chief lending officer and be responsible for the Commercial Mortgage Banking Group in Tacoma. Wilson was a sales manager with the bank since 1997.

May 24, 2002

Puget Sound Home Buying Expo

The Puget Sound Home Buying Expo will be at the Stadium Exhibition Center in Seattle on Saturday, June 15. Admission is free and the hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is sponsored by John L Scott and Seattle Mortgage

May 23, 2002

Graham & Dunn

Kevin G. Montler joined Graham & Dunn as an associate. Montler will join the firm's hospitality, beverage and franchise industry team

Northwest Suites

Jeff Bowman joined Redmond-based Northwest Suites Inc. as manager of carpet cleaning. The corporate housing firm's carpet cleaning division maintains 400 to 1,200 apartments, depending on the season. Bowman will oversee a team of six and grow housekeeping services beyond Northwest Suites properties. Bowman moved to Seattle in August 1995 and has held positions in improving operations and developing new business with a variety of firms, including Adventures in Advertising, Bensussen, Deutsch & Associates and YouthStream Media. He grew up in Virginia and attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Unico Properties

One Renton Place

HAL Real Estate Investments renewed its contract for Unico Properties to manage 670,000 square feet of office space in Renton that HAL bought from Unico a couple years ago.

The buildings are One, Two and Three Renton Place, Valley Office Park and Black River 800.

John L. Scott

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Coralynne Fulmer, Becky Hoang and Jo Anne Drewry became sales associates in John L. Scott Real Estate's Lynnwood office. Fulmer came from retail management. Sam Harris, John Mueller and Dawn Reynolds joined the firm's Lynnwood West office.

Seven sales people joined the Bellevue office: Gary Alvord, Mary Nguyen, Sherry Simmons, Valerie Plotnikova, Licia Howie, Tamila Timm and Steve Sharon.

Six started in the Renton office: Sandi Cantrall, Yossi Notik, June Schuck, Marc Trout, Wendy Johnston and Kelly Anderson. Steve Bartlett began working in Kent North.

CREW to hear from Vulcan

Ada Healey, vice president for real estate at Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., will talk about South Lake Union redevelopment at the June 13 lunch meeting of Commercial Real Estate Women. The event will run from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Washington Athletic Club in downtown Seattle. If Vulcan built out all of its South Lake Union holdings, it could total 10 million square feet, CREW said. For information, call (206) 361-6859.

NAIOP will tour the south end

The National Association of Office and Industrial Properties' 2002 property tour, scheduled for June 6, will focus on the Kent Valley, Renton and Tukwila. "We have a full program with project updates from Boeing Realty, CenterPoint Corporate Park and Sabey Corp.," NAIOP says. "You'll get answers to: What ever happened to those telecom and dot-com buildings? Are there really new developments happening on the shores of Lake Washington and what are the new speculative developments?" NAIOP exceeds 400 local members and will limit the tour to 200 people, so it says not to wait to reserve a spot. The event will start at noon at CenterPoint Corporate Park in Kent and finish at 4:45, followed by a reception at CenterPoint. For information, call (206) 382-9121.

Windermere

Jeremey Johnson and George Rider became sales associates in Windermere Real Estate's Eastlake office. Johnson was previously a transportation and staffing manager with Seattle VIP Services. Rider was a product manager with Pacific Coast Trading in San Diego.

Windermere's Magnolia office hired Olivia Boucher, Kerstin G. Brooks, Colleen McCann and Heidi Ward as sales associates. Boucher comes from 25 years in the banking

industry. Brooks was previously the chief operating officer for Realty Solutions in Seattle. Her background also includes title insurance and property management. McCann was previously an office manager with

Ascent Partners Group in Seattle. Ward moved up from licensed assistant in the Magnolia office.