May 19, 2011

Cushman & Wakefield-Commerce

Johnson

Burmesiter

Brandon Burmeister joined Cushman & Wakefield-Commerce's Seattle office leasing team as an associate, and Justin Johnson joined as an associate director with the Eastside office leasing team. Burmeister was with Grubb & Ellis. Johnson was with the Broderick Group.

Marcus & Millichap

Allen

Raymond Allen is a new associate at Marcus & Millichap's Seattle office. He was vice president at Capital Real Estate Finance in San Diego.

Columbia Hospitality

Seattle-based Columbia Hospitality is the new manager of Cave B Inn at SageCliffe in Quincy and Rainbow Ranch Lodge in Big Sky, Mont. Cave B is owned by Seattle residents Vince and Carol Bryan, and Scott Gibson of Seattle owns Rainbow Ranch. Columbia said it has nearly doubled its management contracts since December, adding more than 400 employees and 900 guest rooms. Growth included acquisition of another Seattle company, The Chambers Group. Cave B overlooks the Columbia River gorge and has 30 guest rooms and 25 luxury yurts with a vineyard, restaurant and spa. Rainbow Ranch is on the Gallatin River and has 21 guest rooms and three cabins.

CREW: To tweet or not to tweet

Tracey Warren of Ready Set Grow marketing will talk about Twitter at the CREW Seattle & Sound meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at World Trade Center East in Seattle. The program will examine how and why to tweet, followed by a speed networking session. Register at crewseattle.org.

Capitol Hill Housing

To commemorate its 35th anniversary, Capitol Hill Housing is collecting stories and photos of past and current residents. The nonprofit also wants to hear the stories of volunteers, workers and others that have been involved with CHH. CHH set up a 35th anniversary Flickr group at http://tiny.cc/pjnb1. CHH provides affordable housing and community development, with 42 buildings in Seattle.

May 12, 2011

Emeritus and Blackstone

Emeritus, a Seattle-based provider of senior living services, entered into an agreement with affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors to acquire 24 assisted-living communities with 1,870 units. They now are owned by a joint venture of Emeritus and Blackstone: Emeritus owns 19 percent and Blackstone owns 81 percent. The price to acquire Blackstone's interest is approximately $99 million. Emeritus has 482 communities in 42 states.

Capitol Hill Housing

Capitol Hill Housing's Broadway Crossing won a Door Knocker Award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The 44-unit complex is at 815 E. Pine St. and has a Walgreens store at the base. It was developed in 2007 with HUD assistance. GGLO designed it and Rafn was the general contractor.

Archstone

Apartment owner and operator Archstone appointed Richard E. “Rick” Lamprecht executive vice president of development for the West, which includes Washington. The firm has more than 2,700 apartments in the pipeline but none are planned for Washington. Lamprecht was owner and principal of REL Property Consulting.

Fannie Mae

Wells Fargo Bank is first on Fannie Mae's top multifamily loan originators for 2010. The others are DB Mortgage Services, Walker & Dunlop, CBRE Multifamily Capital, PNC Bank, Arbor Commercial Funding, Prudential Multifamily Mortgage, CWCapital, M&T Realty Capital Corp. and Greystone Servicing Corp.

Seattle King County First Citizens

Former Seattle Mariner pitcher Jamie Moyer and his wife, Karen, are the Seattle King County Realtors' 2011 First Citizen Award winners for their work through The Moyer Foundation, which has raised more than $20 million to support programs for children.

CoStar Power Brokers

CoStar released this year's Power Broker list, based on sales and lease transactions it has tallied. Seattle's top leasing firms are Broderick Group, C&W Commerce, CB Richard Ellis, Colliers International, First Western Properties, Grubb & Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, Kidder Mathews, NAI Puget Sound Properties, Neil Walter Co., Pacific Real Estate Partners, The Andover Co., CAC Group, Wallace Properties and Washington Partners. Top sales firms are CBRE, Colliers, Grubb, Hendricks & Partners, JLJ, KM, Marcus & Millichap, Neil Walter, PREP and Washington Real Estate Advisors.

• Top office leasing brokers are Clay Nielsen, Doug Hanafin and Ed Curtis of Washington Partners; Dwight Newell, Jesse Ottele and Tim O'Keefe of CBRE; Greg Inglin, JJ Shephard, Mark Flippo and Stuart Williams of PREP; Jason Furr, Paul Sweeney and Tony Ulacia of Broderick; and John Hansen and Shawn Hardy of CAC.

• Top retail leasing brokers are Carol Pugh, Sandy Pody and Tiffini Connell of West Coast Commercial Realty; Connie D. Boyle of Andover and formerly with Colliers; Constance Wilde of CBRE; Don Whittles, Jeremiah Durr and Tim Weber of First Western Properties; James Reed of AGM; Jay Bergevin, Louis Wenger and Monica A. Wallace of Wallace Properties; Nicholas Gill of Westlake Associates; Steve Olsen of JSH Properties; and Susie Detmer of C&W Commerce.

• Top industrial leasing brokers are Andrew Harnish, formerly with JLJ and now with Orion Commercial Partners; Chris Hughes and Mark Flippo of PREP; Chris Spofford of JLJ; Doug Klein and Matt Wood of KM; John Bauer, John Gilliland, John Sullivan, Matt O'Brien and Ric Brandt of CBRE; John Hanson, Kristina Madayag and Todd Meldahl of C&W Commerce; Matt McGregor of Grubb and formerly with Cushman & Wakefield; and Scott Alan of Colliers.

• Top sales brokers are Armand Tiberio, Robert Sheppard and Spencer Hurst of Marcus & Millichap; Dave Schumacher and David Mortensen of Colliers; Frank Bosl, Jon Hallgrimson and Tom Pehl of CBRE; Giovanni Napoli and Philip Assouad of KM; and Kenny Dudunakis of Hendricks & Partners.