Jan 26, 1999

Seattle Times Company

The Seattle Times Company recently launched NWAutoSpace, nwautospace.com, a Web site devoted to automobiles and other forms of transportation. The entire private party and dealer listings from the Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer transportation classifieds will be accessible online.

Jan 22, 1999

Esterline Technologies

Esterline Technologies, a Bellevue-based specialty manufacturing company focusing on the aerospace, automated equipment and instrumentation industries, has named Robert W. Cremin chief executive officer. Cremin has spent the last 22 years in executive positions at Esterline and its predecessor organizations. Cremin succeeds Wendell P. Hurlbut who will continue to serve as chairman of the board of directors.

Metawave Communications

Metawave Communications, a Redmond-based provider of smart antenna systems for cellular operators, has negotiated a technical cooperation agreement with Shanghai Post & Telecommunications Administration, an operator of GSM systems in Shanghai, and Shanghai New Globe Co., a distributor of telecommunications equipment. A Metawave smart antenna system will be tested for GSM networks under the agreement.

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders

The fourth of six tractor tugs built for operation by Crowley Marine Services was recently delivered to the company in Seattle. The final two vessels are under construction by Nichols Brothers Boat Builders Inc. for Vessel Management Services Inc., a Crowley Maritime Corp. subsidiary. The vessels were designed and engineered by Guido Perla & Associates Inc..

CB Richard Ellis

Ann Chamberlin has been promoted to senior managing director of CB Richard Ellis' Seattle-area offices. She is one of the few women to rise to a regional management position for a major real estate firm and the only one in the Pacific Northwest. Chamberlin said her goal is to recruit new talent and retain what she called existing stars. Chamberlin succeeds regional manager John Records, who has been reassigned to a California office. Greg Coxon will continue to oversee the Tukwila office as managing director and will help cover Bellevue's operations. Chamberlin remains head of the Bellevue office where she has boosted staff from seven brokers to 19, including such well-known players as Gary Danklefsen, Rob Larsen, Steve Bordner, Mike Shigley, Ken Barnes and Mark Hockman. Chamberlin said she looks forward to recruiting new talent to the Seattle office. Her promotion marks just the latest first in Chamberlin's career. When she joined the company in 1979, she worked with fellow pioneering women Joni Henry and Barbara Howell in what had long been a male-dominated field. Previously she was a public affairs manager lobbying for Intalco Aluminum, and before that she was the first female pharmaceutical representative for Burroughs Wellcome.

Jan 21, 1999

Lake Washington Technical College

Joseph A. Ferrara has been appointed to the Lake Washington Technical College Board of Trustees. Ferrara is founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Meridian Partners Limited in Bellevue, an Internet custom software development and consulting company.

Jan 20, 1999

EDAW

Robert N. Shrosbree has been promoted to principal with EDAW, Inc. Shrosbree joined the firm in 1992 and has specialized in master planning for corporate, campus, university and institutional facilities. Current projects include the 1,000-acre Genie Corporation manufacturing facility in Moses Lake; Microsoft South Campus in Mountain View, Calif.; the Rebok One World Headquarters in Canton, Mass.; the Sonoma County Day School campus in Santa Rosa, Calif.; and the East Capitol Campus Plaza in Olympia. Joseph C. Cloud has been promoted to senior associate at EDAW. He is a landscape architect and environmental planner and currently project manager for the City of Lakewood comprehensive plan, the Puget Sound regional land use plan for the U.S. Navy and the Sand Point/Magnuson Park infrastructure redevelopment project. Mark Brands has rejoined the Seattle office as an associate after spending three years in EDAW's Sydney, Australia office where he was landscape project manager for the Olympic Village for the Sydney 2000 games. He also worked on new town developments in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. His current projects include inner-city redevelopment in the False Creek area of Vancouver, B.C. Bradley A. Smith has been promoted to associate at EDAW. A landscape architect, he specializes in the management of large projects involving the integration of digital information. He is project manager for the East Capitol Campus Plaza repairs in Olympia. Kathy Eitner Kirby has been promoted to associate at EDAW. She is currently involved in landscape design for the Reebok One World Headquarters, the Microsoft South Campus; the Sonoma Country Day School and the OB2 vertical circulation study at the East Capitol Campus in Olympia. Ed Mah has also been promoted to associate. He is currently working on site planning, irrigation design, wetland restoration and construction administration for the Microsoft, Reebok and Sand Point projects. Komal Bhatia Dewan, who transferred to the Seattle office from Irvine, Calif., has been promoted to associate. She is assisting on the Regional Shore Infrastructure Plan for the U.S. Navy, the E&H Superblock and the Sand Point project. Mike Usen, a planner, has joined the firm as an associate. He is currently assisting in the Lakewood and Genie Corporation projects and on resource management plans for the Bureau of Reclamation. Ron Pike has joined the firm as a planner and network communications specialist. He has expertise in comprehensive plan development, environmental impact analysis and airport compatibility planning.

Jan 19, 1999

Get ready now for GLOBE 2000

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- It's already time to start thinking about GLOBE 2000, an environmental conference and trade fair to be held in Vancouver from March 22 to 24, 2000. The conference will highlight business responses to the risks of climate change; innovations in clean industrial technologies; financial markets and environmental business; international markets for environmental solutions; and corporate environmental strategies. The trade show will feature 400 exhibitors, ranging from water supply and wastewater technology to information systems and environmental management services. Some 10,000 people are expected to attend. For more information, call (604) 775-7300 or e-mail. Or see the Web site.

WUTC

Marilyn Showalter, a senior policy advisor to Gov. Gary Locke on energy and telecommunications, has been named by Locke to chair the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. She replaces Anne Levinson who resigned the chair to become a judge in Seattle Municipal Court.