Jun 10, 2004

Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield's Global Board of Directors has named Bruce Mosler president and chief executive officer of the firm, effective Jan. 1. He will succeed President and CEO Arthur J. Mirante II. Mosler said the company will emphasize expansion in core U.S. markets and continue to recruit brokers and acquire select firms.

Panattoni Development

Vall-Spinosa

Terra Vall-Spinosa has been hired as a development manager at Panattoni Development Co.'s new Puget Sound regional office in Tukwila. She previously worked for Opus Northwest in Bellevue.

VerticalEmail.com

Starting next week, GVA Kidder Mathews and Grubb & Ellis agents will use the VerticalEmail.com platform to share listings and leads, officials of the Portland company say. VerticalEmail sends e-mails to targeted audiences, but message recipients -- not senders -- control what they receive. Subscribers outline what kinds of properties they want to review. When other subscribers send out messages, VerticalEmail.com reviews them and sends them to only interested parties.

Capstone Partners

Terry Rennaker has joined Capstone Partners as a principal in the Seattle office. He previously was U.S. director of critical facilities for the development and investment division of Trammell Crow Co. Capstone, which has offices in Seattle and Portland, plans, finances, implements and manages real estate investments for clients in the Northwest and Nevada. It expects to handle $100 million in projects next year.

Fursse & Hall Realty

Hall

David Hall, executive vice president of Fursse & Hall Realty of Seattle, has obtained his Certified Commercial Investment Member designation. He specializes in the sale and leasing of office properties in the close-in Seattle market.

Quadrant Homes, Merit Financial

Washington CEO magazine has named Quadrant Homes the best mid-sized company to work for. Another Eastside real estate company, Merit Financial, finished third in the same category.

BC Real Estate Associates

Robert E. Voight and Charlotte Vanlaningham have joined BC Real Estate Associates. Voight is the Bellevue company's land development and new home specialist. Vanlaningham is a sales associate. BC focuses on residential land acquisition and marketing new home communities.

John L. Scott

Ybarra

John L. Scott Real Estate reports another record-breaking sales month in May. Exact numbers were unavailable because not every office had compiled their numbers. The record was set despite increasing interest rates, which company officials said were off set by the improving economy and related job growth. Also, Alison Ybarra is the new managing broker of the John L. Scott Gig Harbor office.

Stewart Title

Stewart Title Co., has acquired Whitman County Title of Pullman. Stewart also recently opened an office in Spokane.

Green development discussion

There will be a discussion on "green" development at 6:30 p.m. June 15 at REI, 222 Yale Ave. N., Seattle. Panelists Bert Gregory of Mithun, Mark Huppert of Catapult Community Developers, Douglas Howe of Touchstone and Hamilton Hazlehurst of Vulcan Inc., will discuss why Seattle has become the nexus for the sustainable development movement.

NAIOP

NAIOP members will hear about three downtown Bellevue projects at the 7 a.m. June 16 breakfast at the Bellevue Club, 11200 S.E. Sixth St. Projects are Schnitzer Northwest's mixed-use development next to Meydenbauer Center, Bentall Capital's second phase of Summit Ridge and Washington Capital Management's Tech Tower. Cost is $25 for National Association of Industrial and Office Properties members and $45 for nonmembers. Reservations are due by Friday and can be made at www.naiopwa.org or by calling (206) 382-9121.