Aug 08, 2005

Downtown Seattle Association

Houtchens

Callahan

Hanley

The Downtown Seattle Association announced new officers for its 2005-2006 Board of Trustees: chair is Mark Houtchens of The Vance Corp., vice chair is Patrick Callahan of Equity Office Properties, treasurer is Larry Bird of Deloitte & Touche, secretary is John Hanley Jr. a shareholder of Heller Ehrman. Continuing as general counsel is John C. McCullough of McCullough Hill Fikso Kretschmer. New members of the board include: Rita Brogan of PRR, Deborah Jacobs of Seattle Public Library, Clyde MacIver of Seattle Mariners, James Neal of Metzler North America Corp., Gretchen Sorensen of Institute for Systems Biology, and Jack Wiser of the Bank Of America.

Aug 04, 2005

Cushman & Wakefield

Uusitalo

Shephard

Berg

Rebecca Uusitalo has joined Cushman & Wakefield as property manager of the company's Eastside portfolio, including the 300,000-square-foot Sunset Corporate Campus. She previously worked as property manager of Unico Properties' Bellevue portfolio. Riley Shephard is a new associate in the Eastside Office Leasing Group. He's working with Tom Bohman, director of Eastside Office Leasing. Shephard recently graduated from the University of Portland. Cushman & Wakefield promoted Kim Berg to senior portfolio manager of the company's downtown Seattle office properties. She was general manager of the Seattle Municipal Tower. DB Rreef has selected Cushman & Wakefield to manage leasing at One Convention Place, a 300,000-square-foot office building at 701 Pike St. Cushman's Senior Leasing Director Scotta Ashcraft and Senior Director Michael Dash will represent the landlord. The building is 90 percent occupied.

KeyBank

KeyBank Real Estate Capital has launched Key Commercial Mortgage Direct, a loan program aimed at individual investors seeking to purchase commercial property ranging from $600,000 to $6.5 million. Over the next 18 months, Key's goal is to originate $500 million in loans through the program. Targeted property types include office, retail, multi-family, mobile-home park, self-storage, warehouse, industrial and mixed-use. Loan sizes will range from $500,000 to $5 million.

HSC Real Estate

Vulcan Inc. and Pemco Insurance hired Seattle-based HSC Real Estate to manage the residences of Alley24, now under construction in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Vulcan and Pemco are joint venture partners. The project has 172 apartments, 185,000 square feet of office and 28,000 square feet of retail and restaurants. HSC, which manages more than 20,000 apartment units in the Northwest and California, will begin pre-leasing the apartments early next year.

Windermere

Christian McLaughlin, a former pilot with Alaska Airlines and the U.S. Navy, is a new sales associate at Windermere Real Estate's Queen Anne office.

NAIOP annual awards

The National Association of Industrial and Office Properties is seeking nominations of individuals and projects for the local chapter's annual awards program. Categories are Developer of the Year, Industrial Deal, Industrial Development, Office Deal, Office Development, Redevelopment/Renovation, Sustainable Development, and Technology Space Development, which covers biotech, high-tech and flex-tech. The deadline for nominations has been extended to Aug. 12. Awards will be announced at the chapter's Nov. 4 Night of the Stars in Seattle. For details see the Night of the Stars link under events at www.naiopwa.org or call (206) 382-9121.

DSA

The Downtown Seattle Association is hosting a breakfast forum about how the city plans to manage and coordinate a decade of transportation construction. Grace Crunican, director of the city's Department of Transportation, and consultant Alinda Page will speak at the 7:30 a.m. Wednesday forum at the Grand Hyatt, 721 Pine St. It's $35 for DSA members and $45 for others. Register at downtownseattle.com or call (206) 623-0340.

NAIOP national convention

Registration is open for the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties' national convention Oct. 18-21 in Hollywood, Fla. Journalist Bob Woodward is the keynote speaker. Registration before Sept. 15 costs $955 for NAIOP members. Register at www.naiop.org.