Jan 02, 2015

Lane Powell

MacLeod

Lane Powell named Seattle attorney Sarah MacLeod a shareholder. She is a member of the Trusts and Estates Practice Group, with clients who include owners of privately held businesses, beneficiaries of long-term trusts, fiduciaries and entrepreneurs.

Clearwater Paper

Clearwater Paper Corp. of Spokane sold its specialty products business and mills to Dunn Paper and will reinvest proceeds into capital projects in its consumer products division. The sale includes five Clearwater subsidiaries with facilities in East Hartford, Conn., Menominee, Mich., Gouverneur (Natural Dam), N.Y., St. Catharines, Ontario, and Wiggins, Miss. About 470 specialty products employees are now employees of Dunn Paper, which is located in Port Huron, Mich.

Tukwila apartments sell for $10.5M

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Newport Heights, an 80-unit apartment complex at 5600 S. 152nd St. in Tukwila, sold last month for $10.53 million. The buyer is an entity managed by Steven Spierer and John Woodward, partners at Woodspear Properties, which has offices in Olympia, as well as California and Denver. The seller is an entity related to Horizon Realty Advisors of Seattle. The price equates to $131,562 per unit. Joe Levin, Tim McKay and Dan Chhan of Colliers International represented the seller.

Moctezuma's opens in Southcenter

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Moctezuma's Mexican Restaurant & Tequila Bar has opened a third location in this region at Westfield Southcenter in Tukwila. Moctezuma's opened in Tacoma in 1978 and added a second restaurant in Gig Harbor. Bernie Garcia, co-owner of Moctezuma's, said in a press release the company chose Southcenter because of its diverse and growing population. The bar has more than 100 tequilas and mezcals.

Seattle brokerage joins Berkshire

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices added Seattle-based Prudential Signature Properties to its network. The brokerage's name has been changed to Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Signature Properties. The move gives Signature access to technology and more leads. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices is a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. It was founded in September 2013 and has 34,548 agents and 1,075 offices in 47 states.

Dec 31, 2014

ZGF Architects

In its Seattle office, ZGF Architects promoted Barbara Anderson, Jim Harman and John Mess to principal. Anderson specializes in health care planning and design. She has over 25 years of experience in health care projects and holds a master of nursing degree from the University of Washington. Among the projects she has contributed to are St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor and The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point in Marysville. Harman has over 37 years of experience in planning, programming and design of large-scale health care projects — 15 years at ZGF. He is working on the 650,000-square-foot Teck Acute Care Centre at BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre in Vancouver, B.C. Mess has more than 36 years of experience leading planning and design projects with a focus on health care facilities. He was responsible for one of the firm's first Integrated Project Delivery health care projects that involved a tri-party contractual agreement: the Integrated Procedures Center within Virginia Mason Medical Center's Jones Pavilion in Seattle. He has also led ZGF's work for the Franciscan Health System.

Rolluda Architects

Gestoso

Rolluda Architects hired Oscar Gestoso as a senior project designer. Gestoso has over 30 years of architectural experience in hospitality, community, housing and retail projects. He is working on Recycle and Transfer Station projects for King County Solid Waste. Rolluda is an architectural, planning and interior design firm.

DLR Group

Ferking

In its Seattle office, DLR Group named Todd Ferking a principal, Amarpreet Sethi, Shahzad Uppal, RJ Van Liere and Michael Ziemann as senior associates and Rob Deane, Jordan Lee, Ariel Mieling, Rico Quirindongo, Jeremy Reding, Lauren Spear, Michael Vander Ploeg, Jane Yin and Kevin Zhang as associates. In its Portland office, the firm named Tim Ganey as a senior associate. Ferking designs K-12 buildings, and was on the team for the Marysville Getchell Campus. DLR Group provides architecture, engineering, planning, interior design and building optimization from offices coast-to-coast and in China.

Trindera Engineering

Wickwire

Garcia

In its Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, office, Trindera Engineering hired Frank Garcia as recruitment coordinator and Jeff Wickwire as an IT help desk technician. Garcia has over 15 years of experience in employee relations and recruiting, most recently as a senior workforce consultant at the Idaho Department of Labor. Wickwire has done technical support for over five years, most recently at Coldwater Creek. Trindera is an electrical and control systems engineering and consulting firm, with an office also in Spokane.

Fehr & Peers

Abbotts

The Seattle office of Fehr & Peers hired Ryan Abbotts as senior market leader. His experience includes multimodal planning and operations, transit planning, and non-motorized and regional transportation. He has an urban and regional planning degree from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. The Walnut Creek, Calif.,-based firm provides multimodal transportation planning, travel demand forecasting, bicycle/pedestrian planning, smart growth, impact assessment, transit, and engineering services.

Sazan Environmental Services

Hullinger

Sazan Environmental Services hired Marvin Hullinger as a commissioning agent and commissioning project manager. Hullinger has over 12 years of experience in commissioning and building energy analyses. He has worked on health care, lab, mixed-use, and commercial office building projects. The Seattle-based firm provides commissioning services, Test-Adjust-Balance services, and HVAC troubleshooting and diagnostic services for buildings.

Landau Associates

Kostka

Levine

Dosch

Carlstrom

Gertz

Bergseng

Landau Associates hired Allison Bergseng as a senior project engineer, Sean Gertz as a staff engineer and Carolyn Carlstrom as a CAD/GIS technician in Edmonds; Nicholas Dosch as a staff engineer in Tacoma; Lance Levine as a senior project engineer in Olympia; and Shane Kostka as an assistant geologist in Spokane. Bergseng has been a civil and environmental engineer for six years, and will support the permitting and compliance group. Gertz holds a bachelor's in civil engineering from Oregon State University. Carlstrom received a bachelor's in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2013, and worked for a structural engineering firm in Shoreline. Dosch has a background in environmental hydrology and biogeochemistry and worked for the U.S. Geological Survey. He works in Landau's environmental remediation group. Levine has 16 years of geotechnical engineering experience. His projects include the Army Reserve Center geotechnical investigation at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Kostka has six months of experience in environmental remediation and sampling and two years interning for the U.S Geological Survey. Edmonds-based Landau provides geotechnical and environmental engineering, remediation, permitting, and compliance services.

1st Security Bank

Krynsky

1st Security Bank hired Stacey Krynsky as vice president and manager for the Capitol Hill branch. She has nearly a decade of bank management experience and was vice president and store manager for Umpqua Bank.

Best running community

The Road Runners Club of America recently named Spokane the outstanding runner friendly community of the year.

The award recognizes the city's running trails, community enthusiasm and government support.

The biggest running event of the year is the annual Bloomsday run that attracts 50,000 runners on the first Sunday in May.

The Spokesman-Review reports there are countless running clubs and a robust running culture in high schools in the Spokane area.