Nov 04, 1998

HDR

Rubin A. Jackson has been hired by HDR Engineering Inc. as manager of engineering applications in the company's Bellevue office. He is the owner of Northwest CADD Services, Inc.

Nvst.com

Nvst.com Inc., a Bellevue company providing an Internet "hub" site for the mergers and acquisitions and venture capital industries, has moved to Rainier Plaza, 777 108th Ave. NE, Suite 1750, Bellevue 98004, (425) 454-3639. Nvst.com provides access to over $76 billion in capital and over $78 billion in investment opportunities.

Ater Wynne

Ater Wynne, a Portland-based law firm, has added Angela Wu and Brenda Molner as associates to the Seattle office. Wu will focus her practice on federal and state telecommunications regulation and Internet technology in the Telecommunications Business Group. Molner will focus her practice on construction matters and alternative dispute resolution in the Business Group.

Oct 30, 1998

CB Richard Ellis

Pete Hollomon has been promoted to senior associate at CB Richard Ellis. He joined the company in 1994 and specializes in the leasing and sales of office and high-tech properties on the Eastside.

Oct 29, 1998

ScenicSoft

ScenicSoft, a privately-held company with offices in Everett and Brusells, Belgium, was recognized as one of Washington's Technology Fast 50. With a five-year growth rate of 785 percent, ScenicSoft was ranked 22nd. ScenicSoft develops and markets software for the publishing and printing industries.

Oct 28, 1998

Hewitt Isley

Douglas R. Snider has been promoted to the level of senior associate with Hewitt Isley. He has over 20 years of experiencein landscape architecture, site planning, urban design, master planning and environmental assessment. His projects include planning for Redmond Town Center and Redmond Town Center mixed-use housing. Mark J. Wettstone has been named an associate with the firm. He specializes in residential design and large scale commerial, multi-family housing and retail projects. He is the designer of 106th Place Condominiums in Bellevue and a student housing project near the University of Washington. Dana L. Webber is also a new associate with Hewitt Isley. He was recently involved in the design of Harbor Steps North, the Edmonds interim overhead loading facilty at the Edmonds Ferry Terminal, and the Bainbridge Island Ferry Terminal facilities plan. Robert L. Ohm II, another newly appointed associate, has over 20 years of experiences as a project manager. His experience includes airports, convention centers, commercial projects, high-tech facilites, conference facilities and multi-family housing. He is the project architect on Harebor Steps North, a 300-unit apartment complex just north of Harbor Steps East in downtown Seattle. Lyle D. Grant, also an associate, has experience in mixed, use, residential, transportation, and recreational facilites and has degrees in both archtiecture and landscape architecture. He is project architect and designer for the preliminary design of the Tukwila and Sea Tac segments of Sound Transit LINK Light Rail Service. Jeffrey J. Benesi, associate, has a background in landscape architecture, land use planning, urban design, and environmental analysis. He has been involved in the University of Washington Campus master plan and the City of Bellevue pedestrian corridor design guidelines. Karen Bean, associate, recently joined Hewitt Isley as director of marketing.

Oct 27, 1998

Waste Management charged with espionage

SPOKANE (AP) -- A garbage company that pushed plans for a regional landfill near Washtucna has been charged with 23 felony counts of corporate espionage in California. Waste Management Inc. was charged this month with tapping phones and stealing computer records from a California farm business that opposed the company's proposed landfill in the Mojave Desert. The new lawsuit has caught the attention of Waste Management opponents in Adams County, who say the company may have used similar tactics in Eastern Washington. The company denies that allegation. The California charges were filed by the San Bernardino County district attorney's office. Prosecutors contend Waste Management tacitly approved the actions of employees who tapped the phones of Cadiz Land Co., a landfill opponent, starting in 1995. Attorneys in Santa Monica, Calif., and Houston, representing Waste Management, declined comment this week. The charges against the parent company were filed this month. In May, similar charges were filed against two Waste Management employees. According to authorities, the employees stole computer files and spread false information about Cadiz, including accusations it had engaged in drug trafficking and mistreated workers. Cadiz owns about 39,000 acres near the site where a Waste Management subsidiary had planned a huge landfill to hold Los Angeles' garbage. The proposal has since been scrapped. There are "striking similarities" between the Cadiz Land Co. break-in and what occurred in Adams County, said a wheat farmer who opposed Waste Management's Washtucna proposal. Brett Blankenship and other area residents in 1991 formed the Organization to Protect Agricultural Lands, to oppose a Waste Management proposal to bury most of Seattle's garbage in a 90 million-ton dump. In December 1995, the Blankenship Farms office in Washtucna was burglarized. Computers containing the OPAL membership lists, meeting minutes, strategy and financial information were stolen. Nothing else of value was taken in the break-in, Blankenship said. In 1994 and 1995, state Department of Agriculture and Department of Ecology officials received anonymous complaints that the Blankenships were improperly disposing of farm chemicals. The allegations proved untrue. A public relations consultant for Waste Management in Ritzville denied any wrongdoing. "I am not familiar with what happened in Southern California, but there has been no such effort here. I have no knowledge of any plan or effort to discredit OPAL," said the consultant, Scott Cave. In May 1997, Waste Management of Washington received an operations permit for its Adams County landfill. But last March, the company announced it was suspending the project indefinitely.

LCL

Lease Crutcher Lewis has hired six employees: Robert Johnson is a senior project manager and superintendent, Jim Eliasen is an assistant superintendent, Patrick Marlatt is the equipment yard assistant, Greg Lewis is an assistant superintendent, Jeff Huber is a safety coordinator and Steve Abele is a superintendent. Johnson has been managing projects for 19 years and holds a business administration degree from Ottawa University. Eliasen has 22 years of experience and is working at the Microsoft Troon project. Marlatt attended Great Lakes Maritime Academy and Lewis attended Central Missouri State University. Huber was previously with Hensel Phelps Construction and Abele attended the University of Washington, Shoreline Community College and Renton Technical College.