Nov 03, 2005

MILA Inc.

Frost

Mark J. Frost is MILA's new corporate treasurer. He has more than 30 years of finance experience and has worked for Boeing and Getty Images. Frost is the most senior of what has been a wave of new hires at the company as the mortgage lender has added nearly 100 employees this year. Mountlake Terrace-based MILA is an e-commerce mortgage provider that serves the wholesale residential market in 26 states with alternative mortgage lending products.

Unicorn Mortgage

Seven Hobbs has joined Unicorn Mortgage in Burien as a loan officer. He works with individuals looking to purchase or refinance investment property. Tanya Hunnell joined the company as a transaction coordinator.

Windermere Real Estate

Leslie Ota has joined Windermere Real Estate's Sand Point office as a sales associate. He was vice president of Bellevue Downtown Association.

CREW lunch

Tom Parsons, senior vice president and general manager of Opus Northwest, will lead a panel of Opus colleagues who will analyze their company's projects at the 11:30 a.m. Nov. 10 CREW lunch at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave., Seattle. It's $35 for members of Commercial Real Estate Women and $50 for others. Reservations are due by noon Monday and can be made by telephoning (206) 417-5580.

Institute of Real Estate Management Breakfast

The Western Washington Chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management will host its 20th-annual Forecast Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Dec. 1 at the Meydenbauer Center in downtown Bellevue. Lynn Michaelis of Weyerhaeuser will give the keynote. Other speakers are Mike Scott of Dupre + Scott Apartment Advisors, Vanessa Herzog of GVA Kidder Mathews, Lisa Rowe of Bentall and Richard Muhlebach of Kennedy Wilson. It's $55 for advance tickets and $65 at the door. Pre-register by writing irem@commercialmls.com.

Oct 28, 2005

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Foster Pepper & Shefelman of Seattle added Taudd A. Hume to its Spokane office. Hume is an associate in the litigation practice, and focuses on land use planning and environmental law. Christopher S. Napier joined the Seattle office as an associate in the real estate practice. Napier was an associate with Preston Gates & Ellis in Seattle. New associates in Seattle are Kelly M. Angell, Mark S. Leen and C. Ryan Russell. Angell is in the municipal government practice, Leen does litigation and Russell focuses on business matters. Rosa Fruehling-Watson is a lawyer in the employment, labor and immigration practice.

Oct 27, 2005

CB Richard Ellis

Biethan

CB Richard Ellis hired 25-year real estate veteran Scott Biethan as senior managing director of Valuation & Advisory Services in the Northwest. The company is expanding these services in the region, which includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Biethan, who will be based in Seattle, joins the company from Cushman & Wakefield. He will recruit appraisers throughout the Northwest, and head CB's national hotel and hospitality appraisal practice.

Coldwell Banker Bain

Affiliate companies Coldwell Banker Bain in Seattle and Coldwell Banker Barbara Sue Seal Properties of Portland/Vancouver hired Suzanne Zinn Mueller as vice president of marketing, communications and brand management. She moved here from Illinois, where she was vice president general manager of Ryan Partnership's Chicago office.

Chiles & Co.

Vulcan Inc. hired Chiles & Co. to manage its property at the south marina area of Lake Union in Seattle. The Seattle company will oversee 7.6 acres, including Chandler's Cove and the H.C. Henry Pier. The properties include 57,000 square feet of retail and office space, and 92 boat slips.

Security Properties

Seattle-based Security Properties has acquired another Bay Area apartment. Security paid $23.3 million for the 124-unit Diplomat in Mountain View, Calif. Security plans to renovate the property, which was built in 1969. The Diplomat is the company's fourth multi-family asset in the Bay Area. Managing Director of Acquisitions Lonnie Nadal says Security wants to buy more.

Colliers International

LSI Logic Corp., of Milpitas, Calif., retained Colliers International Advanced Technology Real Estate Group in Seattle to help with the sale of its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Gresham, Ore. Stephen Rothrock, executive director of the Colliers group, says the 1998 plant on an 80-acre site that is fully permitted for an expansion.

Wright Runstad & Co. and Urbis Partners

Walton Street Capital of Chicago chose Wright Runstad & Co. to manage and operate 1.2 million square feet in two Seattle properties it just bought: Metropolitan Park and Park Place. Lisa Stewart and Cleita Harvey of Urbis Partners were selected to lease the portfolio. Urbis will work with Wright Runstad for the first time, but Stewart previously provided the same services for two other Walton Street Capital properties in Seattle. For Wright Runstad, the assignment is a reunion of sorts with former principals of Chicago-based JMB Realty, who later formed Walton Street Capital. Wright Runstad and JMB partnered in development of Wells Fargo Center in Seattle. This assignment increases Wright Runstad's assets under management in Seattle to more than 4 million square feet.

Aboda

Aboda CEO Brenda Handley is retiring and President Dave Caple will take over CEO responsibilities. Ralph Jones has been named executive vice president, and Steve Bredeweg is chief operations officer. Former Vice President of Operations Marilyn Fink has been named senior vice president. Gary Ciabotti is senior vice president of East Coast operations. The Redmond company is a corporate housing provider. Clients include Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing.

NAIOP honor Nickels and Marshall

The Washington chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties named Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and Bellevue Mayor Connie Marshall the 2005 Public Officials of the Year. They're being honored for fostering regional cooperation and leadership on transportation, density and economic development issues. They'll receive the award at NAIOP's Night of the Stars banquet Nov. 4 in Seattle.