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Apr 09, 2015
Portland-based Provenance Hotels has hired Melanie Cooke and Larry Tsoumas to lead its revenue and sales teams at Hotel 1000 in Seattle. Cooke will be director of revenue management, and she has experience in sales, e-commerce, social media and front office operations. She last worked at Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel, California; and she has held positions at hotels in San Francisco; Houston; Dearborn, Michigan; and Auckland, New Zealand. Tsoumas last worked as director of marketing for Four Seasons Bitmore in Santa Barbara, California. He has been director of sales and marketing for hotels in Boston and Chicago.
Sperry Van Ness International Corp., a Boston-based commercial real estate franchisor, has added Raven Commercial Real Estate of Kent to its network. Raven was founded in 2013 by Dana Beckley, Chad Gleason, and Jason Wilcox. It provides traditional commercial real estate services like brokerage, investment, property and asset management and development. Raven will now have access to Sperry Van Ness' “national reach, local expertise” program and its more than 1,300 advisors and staff members. Sperry Van Ness has more than 190 locations in 500 markets.
Red Lion Hotels Corp. of Spokane said it has opened a hotel in Cincinnati. Red Lion worked with the property owner, Durga LLC, to convert a portion of the property, which is called CoCo Key Water Resort, to a 184-room Red Lion. The Red Lion has indoor and outdoor pools, a gym, business center and restaurant called the Sharon Hill Bar & Grill. There is 17,000 square feet of meeting space on the property, which is across the street from a 65,000-square-foot convention center. Red Lion was founded in 1959 and has more than 55 hotels.
Apr 02, 2015
Jones Lang LaSalle hired David Cahill to help lead the growing industrial team. Cahill will be a vice president in Bellevue, joining veterans Les Boudwin and Scott Carter. Cahill comes from CBRE, where he was Rookie of the Year in 2010. Cahill has represented tenants and landlords, and he has experience in sales. JLL said it is adding Cahill because the industrial market is strong. Demand is high, vacancies continue to drop and rents are rising.
A panel of brokers will make predictions about the future of Seattle's booming real estate market at a NAIOP forecast meeting called “Is the sky the Limit?” starting at 7:30 a.m. April 15 at Four Seasons Seattle. How long will this boom will last and what happens next? Patrick Callahan, CEO of Urban Renaissance Group and Touchstone, will moderate the panel, which includes Parker Ferguson of Flinn Ferguson, Maria Royer of Real Retail, Steve Schwartz of Jones Lang LaSalle and Matt Wood of Kidder Mathews. For more information, or to register for the event, visit: https://naiopwa.memberclicks.net/breakfast-meetings
Housing Development Consortium will hold its seventh annual Celebration Luncheon April 30 at the Washington State Convention Center. Eugene Robinson, a long-time columnist for The Washington Post, will talk about diversity and equity in the United States. For more information, or to register, visit: http://bit.ly/1NJQXuY