Sep 01, 1999

HDR Engineering

HDR Engineering has transferred project engineer Becky Hart from the company's Salt Lake City office to Seattle. Hart joined HDR in 1997 after serving as a civil engineering intern for the Utah Department of Transportation. Since joining HDR, Hart has been involved in the design of freeway bridges for the Interstate 15 North Interim Project, the Tooele Bypass and the Legacy Parkway in Utah. Three HDR employees have earned Professional Engineer status by passing the required examination. They are Kevin Collins, Allison MacEwan and James Nilson. Collins is a civil engineer with experience in transportation design and engineering. His primary area of concentration is in light rail transit and freight railroad design. MacEwan has more than 15 years of experience in environmental engineering, focusing on designing and modeling water resources projects. She has been involved with hydrologic and hydraulic analysis for railway systems and with modeling river basins for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nilson's experience is in water chemistry and treatment technologies. His background is in investigating membrane nanofiltration and dissolved air flotation. He is currently involved with a pilot project on biological iron, manganese and ammonia removal. The firm has hired Carlos Wilcox as a draftsman and graphic designer. Wilcox has experience in creating orthographic projections and dimensional layouts as well as in isometric, descriptive and geometric drawing and three-dimensional visual basics. Founded in 1917, HDR Inc. is an employee-owned firm providing architecture, engineering and project development services for water, transportation, environmental and resource management, health care, justice and science and technology. HDR employs more than 2,300 engineers, architects, scientists, planners and other staff in more than 50 offices worldwide.

Elcon

James Smith, Brendon Inman and Rick Pitcher have joined Elcon Associates in Seattle. Inman and Smith join Elcon Associates as entry-level engineers. Smith is providing support on the King County wastewater projects and Elcon's computer network. Inman is working on the third runway and an airfield signs update at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Pitcher joins Elcon as a CAD operator. William Spurgat has been promoted to project manager. Spurgat, an electrical engineer, joined Elcon in 1992. He is currently the project manager and engineer for Central Washington University's Electrical Utilities Upgrade. His experience includes secondary and medium voltage power distribution systems, interior and exterior illumination systems, emergency and standby power generation systems, detection and alarm systems, communication and broadcast systems for a variety of government, commercial and institutional clients. Founded in 1975, Elcon Associates is a consulting firm of 36 employees. The firm is headquartered in Portland, with offices in Seattle, Los Angeles and Oakland, Calif. Elcon specializes in electrical engineering including power distribution, lighting, telecommunications, controls, fire alarm, security, emergency/standby power, medium voltage systems and other systems related to both campus style underground distribution and interior building design.

Aug 31, 1999

EverTrust Financial Group

Brad Ogura has joined EverTrust Financial Group, the Everett-based holding company for Everett Mutual Bank, as manager of investor relations. Before coming to EverTrust, Ogura served in corporate communications and investor relations positions at Immunex Corp. and NeoRx Corp., both Seattle-based biotechnology companies.

Aug 27, 1999

Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center generated a record $13.7 million in contributions during its 1999 fiscal year. The center received more than $2 million as a result of a challenge placed by Bonnie and Jim Towne of Redmond. The Townes pledged to match up to $1 million dollars pledged by other donors. Jim Towne is a former president of Microsoft and Bonnie Towne is the newly appointed vice chair of the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center foundation board.

Aug 25, 1999

Stuff2Gold

Stuff2Gold, a Seattle-based start-up company, is a new web auction listing designed to help people with little or no computer experience or resources sell their antiques and collectibles. Stuff2Gold will reach online shopping clientele via web auction sites such as eBay and Amazon.com.

J. Miller & Associates

Gail Curtis has joined J. Miller & Associates in Seattle as executive assistant. Curtis has more than 15 years of experience with executive support and building administrative structure for high-tech, accounting and consulting firms. Curtis will serve the firm's two principals with marketing research, administration and client support. J. Miller & Associates provides architectural lighting design and consulting services for clients regionally and worldwide.

Landau Associates

Landau Associates, an environmental and geotechnical engineering consulting firm based in Edmonds, has added four new staff members and promoted three others. Dawn Keegan, an environmental scientist, ecologist, and wildlife biologist with 14 years of experience, has joined the company's Portland office. Keegan will manage projects involving wildlife and fisheries evaluations, biological assessments and Endangered Species Act response, wetlands strategy and delineation, ecological risk assessment and habitat conservation/restoration. Charlie Hughes, an environmental scientist who specializes in sediment and natural resource assessments, has joined the Seattle office. He will conduct marine field sampling and analysis, stream surveys, hydrologic surveys, bioassay testing and dredged material program testing and analysis. Other additions to the Seattle office include Al Myers, the firm's new information technology systems manager, and CAD drafter John Duncan. Recent promotions in the Seattle office include Rebekah Brooks to senior hydrogeologist and Deb Ladd to senior engineer. Eric Weber was promoted to senior hydrogeologist in the Tacoma office. Landau Associates also has offices in Tacoma, Spokane and Lake Oswego, Ore. The firm specializes in environmental site characterization, remedial design engineering, environmental compliance and permitting, natural resources assessment and geotechnical engineering.

Aug 20, 1999

Bentall Corp.

On Monday Vancouver, B.C.-based Bentall Corp., reported that cash flow from operations during the second quarter increased 16.5 percent to $13.7 million (Canadian) over the second quarter of 1998. For the six months that ended June 30, cash flow increased 22 percent to $29.1 million. During the second quarter, 96.5 percent of the Bentall portfolio was occupied, and 488,000 square feet of leases were completed. In the Puget Sound region, Western Wireless leased 22,000 square feet at Newport Corporate Center in Bellevue and Microsoft renewed its lease for 197,000 square feet at Sammamish Park Place in Issaquah. Construction is 71 percent complete on the first of two planned additions at Newport Corporate Center, and in Redmond construction continues on Millennium Corporate Park. On the residential side, the company's 105-unit Le Chateau Apartments in Bellevue is 86 percent leased, and construction progresses at the 268-unit Portsmith Apartments in Everett where the first three of 25 buildings will be ready for occupancy in August with 5 percent of the project leased.

CB Richard Ellis

Jim Jean-Francois has joined the CB Richard Ellis Seattle office as a sales assistant and will focus on the sale and leasing of office properties in the downtown Seattle area. He previously was with IBM where he worked in client representation and strategic marketing.

Opus Northwest

Opus Northwest, one of the region's most active commercial real estate developers, has promoted two employees, Andy Taber and Dave Kessler, and hired Tom Grossi as senior property manager. Taber has been named senior real estate manager and will find, oversee the development of and lease projects. His current responsibilities include Sammamish Parkplace, a 600,000-square-foot office project in Issaquah; the proposed Opus I-90 Business Center, a 164,000-square-foot industrial development in Preston; and potential development in the Northwest. Kessler has been promoted to real estate manager. He now oversees the real estate activities for various Opus Northwest properties, including Northpointe, a proposed 90-acre, master-planned corporate campus of more than 700,000 square feet in Lynnwood; Eastpointe, a 160,000-square-foot, five-story office building whose construction at East Lake Sammamish Parkway and Issaquah Fall City Road in Issaquah is to begin next spring; and Opus Business Center, a 99,500-square-foot industrial building in Issaquah whose construction also is to begin this spring; and new developments as they occur. He previously was responsible for managing the construction of office and industrial projects for Opus Northwest in the Puget Sound area, including the 500,000-square-foot Willows Commerce Park, an office/high-tech development in Redmond. Grossi's new role is to direct Property Management Services in the Seattle and Portland markets. He has more than nine years' real estate management experience in the Seattle area.