Jun 20, 2013

Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce

Thompson

Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce added Scott H. Thompson as an associate broker for its industrial team. He will focus on sales and leasing in Seattle and Tacoma, specifically in the Kent Valley. Thompson was a director at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank in Atlanta, where his team focused on tenant leasing and sales for large companies. Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce is a member of the Cushman & Wakefield Alliance, which is based in Salt Lake City and has offices in Washington, Utah, Nevada and Idaho.

NBS Financial Services

Goodwin

Zack Goodwin joined NBS Financial Services in Seattle as a financial analyst, working on the loan origination team to secure capital from life insurance companies, conduits, REITs and pension funds. He was an associate financial representative with Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management and has experience in commercial real estate brokerage at Coldwell Banker Tomlinson in Spokane. He also did research for a local investment group that specialized in U.S. multifamily acquisitions. Goodwin is a licensed real estate broker in Washington.

Merrill Gardens

Merrill Gardens, an affiliate of R.D. Merrill Co. that owns and operates retirement communities, has named Tana Gall the new president and Jason Childers senior vice president. They will lead the company's 2,800 employees. Gall and Childers were previously president and senior vice president at Leisure Care Retirement Communities. Merrill Gardens said it is has 56 communities in Washington, Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Montana, Nevada and Texas, with space for more than 8,000 residents.

REI

Seattle-based REI will open stores in Flagstaff, Ariz., and Columbus, Ohio, next spring. The stores each will be 23,000 square feet and have 50 employees. The Flagstaff store will be REI's fourth in Arizona. The Columbus store is the second in Ohio, joining a Cincinnati location that opened last October. REI has 129 stores in 32 states, and more than 5 million active members.

EMB Management

Associa's EMB Management, which provides services to homeowner associations and developers, hired Sarah Anderson as director of marketing and operations in Seattle. Anderson worked at another homeowner association management company as a senior portfolio manager, where she supervised high-rise and mixed-use condo associations. Dallas-based Associa says it is North America's largest homeowner association management firm, with 8,000 employees and more than 150 offices in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Jun 13, 2013

Jones Lang LaSalle

Jackson

Jones Lang LaSalle has hired Daniel Jackson as an associate to focus on tenant and landlord representation in Kent Valley and south Seattle industrial markets. Jackson, who was a professional soccer player, started an online commerce company focused on youth sports and was director of sales for Korrio, a cloud-based service for organizing youth sports. Jones Lang LaSalle has more than 1,000 offices in 70 countries. It managed 2.6 billion square feet of space in 2012 and brokered $63 billion in transactions.

NAI Puget Sound Properties

Glade

NAI Puget Sound Properties hired Matt Glade as a senior associate, specializing in industrial tenant representation in south Puget Sound. Glade was previously with Colliers International. He previously worked at Northwest Handling, which designs and makes equipment such as forklifts. NAI Puget Sound Properties has offices in Seattle, Bellevue and Tacoma, and specializes in leasing and sales of office, retail and industrial properties.

SEED hires property manager

SouthEast Effective Development, an affordable housing and arts nonprofit that focuses on Southeast Seattle, hired Everett-based Coast Real Estate Services to manage seven SEED properties in the region: Oregon Place apartments, Lilac Lodge, Charlestown apartments, Columbia Hotel apartments, 3904 Martin Luther King Jr. Way apartments, Nuuanu Pali apartments and Claremont apartments. Coast manages approximately 10,000 apartments and more than 5 million square feet of retail and office space.

Red Lion Hotels

Spokane-based Red Lion Hotels added Riverside Hotel in Boise to the Leo Hotel Collection, a portfolio of boutique, historic and destination hotels. The Riverside has 300 rooms on a 14-acre site near the Boise River, as well as 21,000 square feet of meeting space; an outdoor pool; outdoor chess and petanque courts; multiple restaurants and bars; and a concert venue. Red Lion launched the Leo division earlier this year. This is the second Leo hotel, joining the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

NAIOP looks at Seattle waterfront

The Washington chapter of NAIOP will hear about the Seattle waterfront project at the next meeting: 7 a.m. June 19 at the Four Seasons in Seattle. Maggie Walker, co-chair of the Central Waterfront Committee, and Marshall Foster, planning director for the city, will discuss the goals, timeline, design and impact on the community. Cost is $35 for members and $60 for non-members. For more information, or to register, visit: http://bit.ly/13zqUPa