Oct 06, 2016

Tarragon

Pappas

Tina Pappas, former director of real estate services for Bill & Melinda Gates Investments, has joined Tarragon as senior director of real estate operations. Pappas has over two decades of experience in real estate. Tarragon's projects include Dwell, a recently completed mixed-use complex in Kent.

Davis Property & Investment

Williams

Leone Williams has joined the asset management team at Davis Property & Investment. She replaces Gill Weaver, who retired as the company controller. Davis develops and manages property in the greater Northwest, primarily commercial and industrial.

HFF

Otis

David Otis has joined HFF as a director of investment sales, focused on the Seattle market. He will be based in Portland, and specialize in office, land, retail and industrial property. He was with the Seattle office of Jones Lang LaSalle.

Law Seminars International

Dates for the Conference on Washington's Growth Management Act have been announced: Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 14 and 15 at Marriott Courtyard Seattle Downtown. Speakers will include Beth Ginsberg of Stoel Rives, Richard Settle of Foster Pepper and Traci Goodwin of the Port of Seattle. Topics will include design review boards, climate change, treaty rights and affordable housing. Registration and details: lawseminars.com.

Legacy Partners

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San Francisco-based Legacy Partners, an active multifamily developer in the Northwest, announced that Milehouse Apartments in Redmond was a Merit Winner in Multi-Family Executive Magazine’s Project of the Year contest. Milehouse won in the mid-rise podium apartment category. It opened in October 2015, with 177 units on six stories, parking, and 2,100 square feet of street-level retail, currently leased to the gastro-pub Growler USA. Tiscaren was the architect. Compass was the general contractor.

Sep 29, 2016

Realogics Sotheby's International Realty

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Dean Jones of Realogics

On Monday, RSIR and Tiger Oak Media welcomed the inaugural flight of Xiamen Airlines to Sea-Tac International Airport with the second edition of its Mandarin-language magazine Seattle Luxury Living. Dean Jones, president and CEO of RSIR, said that Vancouver's new 15 percent tax on foreign buyers is steering Chinese customers from Canada to Seattle. “Puget Sound's relative affordability and close proximity to China have helped to make our region an increasingly preferred market for savvy Chinese,” he said. The Vancouver tax went into effect on Aug. 2. Said Jones the Chinese real estate website Juwai.com has reported that in August real estate inquiries for Vancouver fell 86 percent while they rose 146 percent for Seattle.

Columbia Asia

Columbia Asia, an affiliate of local health care company Columbia Pacific Management, announced its expansion to Africa with the recent opening of a 5,300-square-foot medical clinic in Nairobi. The clinic specializes in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology, general surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology and dental care. This is also the launch of a new brand: Columbia Africa. Columbia Asia has 27 hospitals and one clinic in India, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia, all intended to serve those countries' rising middle class. Columbia Asia has 10,000 employees serving more than 2.5 million patients a year. In a statement, Columbia Asia CEO John Northen said, “Africa has become a growing market for us. Kenya is the economic, commercial and logistical hub for all of East Africa, with Nairobi as a major center of growth and foreign investment, so the city was a great fit for our first Columbia Africa facility.”

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

At the recent Built Green Conference in Bothell, Berkshire agents Tim Bower, Sunny Tumber, Paul Poirier, Mark Leingang and Ken Arkills accepted a Green Genius award for their work with Green Canopy Homes. The latter has been an active homebuilder in neighborhoods including Fremont, Mount Baker and Ballard.