Jun 11, 2009

Colliers

Colliers International added Marcelo Garces to the Seattle office to form a Life Sciences specialty brokerage group. Garces worked at Sabey Construction as a development and construction project manager. He directed design-build of data center, life sciences and medical projects. He began his career at Sabey as a leasing associate. Garces also was a project engineer at Structural Engineers in Los Altos, Calif.

NAI Global

Mike Newton and Christian Mattson of NAI Global represented Hillstrom Ventures in the sale of the Hillstrom Cabinets Building at 18504 Canyon Road E. in Puyallup for $6.5 million to Pinion, LLC. The industrial building has 65,450 square feet.

CREW lunch today on UW plans

CREW Seattle's June luncheon is today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The topic is “University of Washington: Bare Bones About Construction at the Dawg's House.” Eric Smith, director of capital projects at the UW, will talk about ongoing construction projects on the Seattle, Tacoma and Bothell campuses. The event will be at the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave. To register go to http://www.crewseattle.org.

NAIOP June 17 breakfast

NAIOP's June 17 breakfast meeting will look at the story behind each of seven completed projects. The speakers will be Dan Ivanoff on The Bravern, Joe Blattner on the Millard & Lowes build-to-suit, Douglas Howe on West 8th, Kevin Wallace on 507 Northgate, Bart Brynstad on Whirlpool, Robert Arron on 2201 Westlake and Tom Parsons on 1521 Second Avenue. Kristen Jensen of Tarragon will be the moderator. The event starts at 7:15 a.m. with registration and networking at the Seattle Sheraton, 1400 Sixth Ave. To register go to http://www.naiop.org.

NAIOP member event June 25

NAIOP will hold a members-only event on Thursday, June 25 from 4 to 7 p.m. at Metropolitan Park West, 1100 Olive Way, on the 17th floor rooftop deck. The Benaroya Companies is sponsoring the event. Cost is $50 for members and $25 for student members. Non-members who sign up by June 15 can attend the event for free. For information call the NAIOP office at (206) 382-9121.