Jan 12, 2006

CREW Seattle

CREW Seattle, regional chapter of the national organization of Commercial Real Estate Women, has installed its 2006 board of directors. Patricia Parsons, a vice president with First American Title Insurance Co., is president. Other officers are president-elect, sponsorships and national delegate Peggy Dreisinger, Metropolitan Improvement District; secretary/treasurer Cathleen Meyer, RREEF; director of programs Patricia Loveall, GVA Kidder Matthews; director of membership Michele Guidinger, Cushman & Wakefield; director of community outreach Roberta Fuhr, KeyBank Real Estate Capital; director of publicity Melanie Corey-Ferrini, Dynamik; director of education/scholarship Lori Mason Curran, Vulcan Inc.; director of communications Shannon Skinner, Preston Gates & Ellis; senior national delegate and past president Lori Hill, Pacific Real Estate Partners; executive director, Eric Featherstone, CREW Seattle; and assistant director Ryan Rodruck, CREW Seattle. This is CREW Seattle's 20th anniversary. Membership is 256, up 50 percent over 2004.

CB Richard Ellis

Jon Hallgrimson has been promoted to executive vice president, the highest title available for CB Richard Ellis brokers. In 18 years with CBRE, Hallgrimson has sold more than $2.3 billion of apartment properties and multi-family land, including the downtown high rise Metropolitan Tower and Harbor Properties' Site 17 in Belltown.

Vulcan Real Estate

Vulcan Real Estate says 2005 was a banner year for the development company, and 2006 is shaping up to be another busy one. The company said it expects to break ground this year on five commercial, residential and mixed-used projects with more than 1.2 million square feet. Last year, Vulcan said it had 900,000 square feet under construction worth $300 million, and three million square feet in the pipeline. Leasing last year totaled 300,000 square feet and 259 condo worth $138 million were presold. Three mixed-use residential projects totaling 670,000 square feet were announced. Construction will start this year on the second phase of UW Medicine Lake Union and two major mixed-use projects will be completed this year: 2200 and Alley24.

Purchase and sale agreements conference

Joel M. Gordon, a partner in the Seattle law firm of Buck & Gordon, and Jennifer D. Cobb, a partner at Jameson Babbitt Stites & Lombard, will co-chair a conference on "Advanced Real Estate Purchases & Sales" at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel on March 6 and 7.

Panelists will include Art Wahl, managing director in the Seattle office of CB Richard Ellis; Craig E. Kinzer, president of the Seattle-based real estate advisory services firm Kinzer Real Estate Services; and Andrew J. Miller, vice president in the Bellevue office of GVA Kidder Mathews.

The event is sponsored by Law Seminars International. For information, call (206) 567-4490 or (800) 854-8009 or visit LSI's Web page.

Jan 11, 2006

VLST Corp.

Seattle-based VLST Corp., a biotech company focused on treating autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, and Accelerator Corp., an investment company that supports biotech companies, said Martin A. Simonetti has been named president and chief executive officer of VLST, and Steven Gillis, Ph.D., will join as executive chairman of VLST's board of directors. Simonetti worked for Dendreon, Amgen and Genentech.