Oct 08, 2004

Graham & Dunn

Law firm Graham & Dunn added associates Derek P. de Bakker, Steven A. Miller and Meredith M. Santos. Associate de Bakker will work on real estate. Miller and Santos will focus on financial services. Graham & Dunn is an industry-focused law firm based in Seattle. Its 55 lawyers represent clients in complex litigation.

Oct 07, 2004

John L. Scott Real Estate

Lauren Skow is a new agent at John L. Scott's Laurelhurst office in Seattle. Stephanie Shurtliffand Dorothy Wayne are new agents in the Lakeside office in Seattle. Agents Kate Kenworthy, Margaret Norberg and Lynne Prince have joined the Kingston office. And Ina Bahner, Gillian Goodgame, Dionne Himmelfarb and Monica Posada-Garcia are new agents at the Mercer Island office.

HomeStreet Bank

Five Puget Sound-area groups have won Community Housing Awards from HomeStreet Bank. The new awards honor organizations that provide housing for low- and moderate income people. More than 125 groups applied for eight awards of $10,000 each. Washington winners are the Eastside's Downtown Action to Save Housing, Plymouth House of Healing, Rebuilding Together of Seattle, Phoenix Housing Network of Pierce County and Housing Hope of Snohomish County.

Friend of Housing awards

The Washington State Housing Finance Commission announced the Friend of Housing award winners at Housing Washington 2004 conference in Bellevue. Winners are loan officer Valerie Felt, Columbia Bank, Longview; Paul Purcell, previously of Catholic Community Services and now of Beacon Development, Seattle; former governor John Spellman; Impact Capital's Tom Lattimore, who grew Local Initiative Support Corp. into a statewide operation; travel writer Rick Steves and Anne Steves, who with Pathways for Women have operated housing units for the homeless; Washington Growers League, which has increased housing for seasonal farm workers; Homeownership Center of Tacoma for revitalizing Hilltop; state Sen. Bill Finkbeiner (R-Kirkland) for passing a bill to improve the condo liability insurance market; and former Snohomish County executive and current Puget Sound Regional Council Executive Director Bob Drewel.

Columbia Partners LLC

Dave Schumacher of Columbia Partners negotiated the $22.73 million sale of the 311-unit Crystal Cove Apartments in Everett. Legacy Partners' Mercer Island office sold the property to Waterton Associates of Chicago, which wants to buy more properties in the Seattle region.

Hendricks & Partners

Hendricks & Partners' Tim Ufkes and Art Woodlund of Tucson negotiated the sale of the 410-unit Tierra Bonita in Tucson. Bridge Partners of Murray, Utah sold it for $11.75 million to Tierra Bonita Apartments LLC of Mount Vernon.

Urban Land Institute

John K. McIlwain, Urban Land Institute's senior resident fellow for housing, will talk about how private and public sectors can cooperate to address the shortage of workforce housing at the local ULI chapter's 7 a.m. Oct. 22 meeting at Seattle's Bell Harbor Conference Center, 2211 Alaskan Way. The breakfast is $25 for members and $30 for others; call (800) 321-5011 to register.

Windermere Real Estate

Moody

Sherry Moody has joined the Magnolia office of Windermere in Seattle as a sales associate. She previously worked for John L. Scott in Seattle. Madelaine Brautlacht is a new sales associate at the Queen Anne office.