Oct 16, 2014

NAIOP cleans up North Bend school

Photo courtesy of NAIOP [enlarge]

More than 320 people volunteered with NAIOP Oct. 4.

More than 320 volunteers from real estate, design and construction firms came to Waskowitz Outdoor School in North Bend Oct. 4 for the NAIOP chapter's annual community enhancement project.

Work at the 372-acre camp included painting, relocating a large deck, replanting the entrance, repairing trails, replacing a split-rail fence, constructing a green house, removing invasive plants, and placing crushed rock on walks and parking lots.

HFC names 6 housing ‘friends'

The Washington State Housing Finance Commission announced the winners of the 2014 Friend of Housing awards: Stephen Buxbaum, mayor of Olympia; Chris Venne, senior housing developer at Community Frameworks in Bremerton; Jayne Auld, who recently retired from Spokane Housing Ventures; Adrienne Quinn, formerly of Seattle Office of Housing and now with King County Community and Human Services; Beacon Development Group, a Seattle-based affordable housing developer; and Harry Hoffman, former executive director of Housing Development Consortium. The commission gave Ishbel Dickens the Margaret M. Sevy Affordable Housing Lifetime Achievement Award for her work on manufactured housing.

RE/MAX partners with Chinese website

Bellevue-based RE/MAX Pacific Realty signed an agreement with a Chinese real estate website called Worldfang.com to display RE/MAX Pacific Realty listings. Worldfang helps Chinese customers with overseas real estate investment, and plans to set up an office at RE/MAX's Bellevue space. RE/MAX was founded by Shelly Hu.

Tour Capitol Hill building with ULI

Urban Land Institute Northwest's Young Leaders Group will tour the Central Agency Building on Capitol Hill at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 29. The auto-row-style building at 952 E. Seneca St. was once used for file storage and covered with metal siding that concealed its historic structure. In 2013 local investors Jerry Everard and Alex Rosenast began a renovation that has created three large retail spaces with exposed timber trusses and mezzanines. After the tour is happy hour and networking. Register at Northwest.uli.org or call 1-800-321-5011.

Everett port sells former HQ

The Port of Everett Commission recently approved the sale of a 14,000-square-foot office building at 2911 Bond St. in Everett. Brian Evans and Robert Bauer, the current tenants and owners of Bauer Evans Inc., are buying the building for $1.68 million. They had planned to buy the building, which was once the port headquarters, in 2008 but the purchase was delayed due to the recession. The sale is expected to close in early 2015.

Oct 09, 2014

Joe Malaspino joins Kidder Mathews

Malaspino

Kidder Mathews named Joe Malaspino to a new position: director of engineering in the property management division. Malaspino will manage the building engineering business, including sustainability practices, for West Coast properties. Malaspino has more than 17 years of experience in building operations with Transwestern, Siemens, CBRE and Trammell Crow Co. He was engineering manager for the Westin Building Exchange.

CREW signature event Oct. 22

Commercial Real Estate Women Seattle & Sound will hold its annual signature event at 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Space Needle. There will be a silent auction, live music, and food and drink. Pproceeds go to local outreach and the CREW Foundation scholarship for women pursuing commercial real estate education programs. For more information, or to register, visit: http://bit.ly/1y719bx

Sares-Regis buys 300 apartments

Sares-Regis Group of Irvine, California, bought two apartment complexes totaling 300 units in the suburbs of Portland and San Diego. They are Westview Heights, a 198-unit townhouse complex in Beaverton, Oregon, and Alta Vista, a 102-unit garden-style complex in Escondido, California. Sares-Regis has an apartment complex in Redmond called The Summit. It owns more than 15 million square of industrial and commercial property and 13,000 apartments.