Oct 13, 2016

Washington State Housing Finance Commission

Photo courtesy Alec Miller

From left: Michael Mirra, Stephen Norman, Betsy Hunter, Marilee Roloff and Chris Lowell.

The Seattle-based nonprofit WSHFC honored six people as Friends of Housing at the recent Housing Washington conference in Tacoma. They are: Stephen Norman, executive director of King County Housing Authority; Joanne Quinn, asset manager for the Seattle Office of Housing; Betsy Hunter, deputy director for Plymouth Housing; Chris Lowell, executive director of the Housing Authority of Thurston County; Marilee Roloff, founder of the Spokane teen shelter Crosswalk; and Robert Rozen, a Senate staffer who helped U.S. Sen. George Mitchell develop of the 1986 federal legislation that created the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program. Also honored was Michael Mirra, who leads the Tacoma Housing Authority. He received the Margaret M. Sevy Affordable Housing Lifetime Achievement Award.

Phillips Real Estate

Gessel

Phillips Real Estate has a new CEO: Elizabeth Gessel, previously chief operating officer at Bellevue's AGM Commercial Real Estate. She was a founder of AGM, where she spent 18 years in investment and asset management. Phillips and AGM have partnered in the past. Seattle-based Phillips manages nearly 10,000 apartment units in the region.

NAIOP

Kondracke

Wondering who'll win the presidential election and what it'll mean to business? NAIOP is hosting veteran political writer and commentator Morton Kondracke for a breakfast talk on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Not coincidentally, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have their third debate that evening. The breakfast is at Grand Hyatt Seattle at 7 a.m. Tickets $40-$70. Register at naiopwa.org.

Dunn & Hobbes

Photo courtesy Myra Lara/Sundberg Kennedy Ly-Au Young Architects [enlarge]

Chophouse Row

The mixed-use Chophouse Row complex at 1424 11th Ave. on Capitol Hill has two events this week. Tonight, from 6-9 p.m., dance troupe Breaks and Swells will perform. Pop-up retail vendors will include Knuckle Kiss Jewelry, Seidr Studio, T-Dub Customs, Theo Chocolate and Moorea Seal. On Sunday, Oct. 16, from noon-4 p.m., portions of Pike Street will be closed for Seahawks CiderFest. Local cider makers will vend their wares, and there will be a pumpkin-carving contest, with the squash provided by Carpinito Brothers Pumpkin Patch.

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

Image courtesy Tiscareno Associates [enlarge]

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.