Oct 31, 2023

Boise Cascade

Boise Cascade announced the promotion of four of its business leaders. Troy Little has been promoted to senior vice president, finance and commodity sales, wood products. Little joined the division in 1990 as an internal auditor. He has served in a broad range of financial and operational leadership roles at several of the company's manufacturing locations. Little became division controller in 2016, financial manager in 2018, and was promoted to vice president in 2021. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the College of Idaho. Joanna Barney has been promoted to senior vice president, Building Materials Distribution Western Operations. Barney joined the company's Salt Lake City branch in 2005. She was promoted to senior location controller in 2012, branch manager in 2015, general manager of Western Operations in 2021, and appointed vice president in 2022. She holds a bachelor's degree in business finance from the University of Utah. Jim Wickham has been promoted to senior vice president, Building Materials Distribution Eastern Operations. Wickham joined the company in 2008 as the branch manager in Westfield, Massachusetts. Wickham was promoted to vice president in 2022. He holds a bachelor's degree in business from Missouri State University. Nathan Sikes has been promoted to vice president, sales & marketing, Building Materials Distribution. Sikes began his career at Boise Cascade in 2006 as a sales trainee. His past positions have included product manager, sales manager, branch manager, and Southwest regional manager. Sikes holds a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice Semiconductor announced that it has been named a Top InfoSec Innovator Awards 2023 winner by Cyber Defense Magazine. The latest version of the Lattice Sentry solution stack was recognized in the Most Innovative in Embedded Security category. The Lattice Sentry solution stack helps developers create cyber resilient system control applications compliant with NIST Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines across the Communications, Computing, Industrial, Automotive, and Consumer markets. Lattice solution stacks are turnkey application-specific solutions that combine reference platforms and designs, demos, IP building blocks, FPGA design tools, and custom design services to accelerate customer application development and time-to-market. This is Cyber Defense Magazine's tenth year of honoring InfoSec innovators from around the globe. Lattice Semiconductor is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Absher Construction Co.

Kwan

Absher Construction Co. hired Will Kwan as chief financial officer. Kwan has over 20 years of experience in various financial roles, with a deep understanding of financial management, compliance and forecasting, according to the company. Prior to joining Absher, Kwan held various senior financial positions at leading organizations, most recently as the CFO and vice president of an air quality solutions company based in Missouri. Absher is an employee-owned company with offices in Puyallup, Bellevue and Wenatchee. Its primary markets are education, recreation, transportation, federal and multifamily housing.

APA

Babcock

Murphy

Williams

Degnan

Asano

APA — The Engineered Wood Association announced its board of trustees, including new chair Doug Asano, who is senior vice president of sales and marketing at Roseburg Forest Products. He succeeds Ashlee Cribb. The association also named Chris Degnan as vice chair, and Stephen Williams as chair of the finance committee. Degnan is director of commodities and home improvement warehouse at Weyerhaeuser. Williams is executive vice president and CFO at Western Forest Products. APA further named two to its board: John Murphy Jr., executive vice president of Murphy Co., and Rich Babcock, CEO of Rosboro. Tacoma-based APA represents mills throughout North America.

ABC of Western Washington

Adaptive Roofing of Renton joined the Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington. The company provides roof replacement, roof repairs, roof cleaning, gutter replacement, roof inspections and certification. Sean Sternberg is co-owner and general manager.

Oct 27, 2023

Symetra

Symetra Life Insurance Company announced that Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work have recognized Symetra on the 2023 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women List. This is Symetra's second consecutive appearance on the list, coming in at No. 41 among the Top 100 organizations in the large workplace category.

To determine the Best Workplaces for Women, Great Place To Work analyzed the survey responses of over 600,000 women who work for Great Place To Work Certified companies that were eligible for the list. Honorees were selected based on their ability to offer positive outcomes for women regardless of job role, race, sexual orientation, work status, or other demographic identifier. Great Place To Work analyzed the gender balance of each workplace compared with Bureau of Labor Statistics industry data. Companies are also assessed on how representation changes as women rise from front-line positions to the board of directors. Led by CEO Margaret Meister and a gender-balanced senior leadership team, Symetra was again Certified by Great Place to Work earlier this year, with 93 percent of surveyed employees saying it's a great place to work. Symetra Life Insurance Company is a subsidiary of Symetra Financial Corporation, a diversified financial services company based in Bellevue.

Teton Ridge

Teton Ridge, an omnichannel company comprised of a portfolio of brands focused on multiple facets of the American West, named Deirdre Lester as its chief executive officer. Previously, Lester was the chief executive officer of Outsider, a lifestyle and media company that celebrates the American outdoors. She joined Outsider from Barstools Sports where she served as chief revenue officer. Before joining Barstool Sports, Lester held senior leadership positions at Major League Baseball, ESPN and Yahoo! Sports. In 2016, she was named one of Forbes' 25 Most Powerful Women in Sports. Investors in Teton Ridge include Thomas Tull, Guggenheim Partners, Jim Breyer and the Lee Bass Family Office. Earlier this month, it was announced that Jillian Share, formerly president of production at eOne, had been named president of Teton Ridge Entertainment, a division of Teton Ridge. Teton Ridge's portfolio of brands is comprised of Western-focused properties in the sports, media, entertainment, lifestyle, and equine spaces. The company's primary office is in Tetonia, Idaho.

Oct 26, 2023

TrueBlue

Netolicky

TrueBlue hired Greg Netolicky as chief people officer. He will report directly to Taryn Owen, president and chief executive officer. Netolicky has more than 20 years of experience across all aspects of human resources, spanning Fortune 500 and privately held organizations. Most recently, he served as the chief human resources officer for Rite-Hite Holding Company, a global manufacturing company. Netolicky also served as vice president of human resources, components and integrated supply chain at Johnson Controls. Tacoma-based TrueBlue is provides specialized workforce solutions. Its PeopleReady segment offers on-demand, industrial, and highly skilled staffing; PeopleScout offers recruitment process outsourcing and managed service provider solutions; and PeopleManagement offers contingent, on-site industrial staffing and commercial driver services.

Dept. of Natural Resources and Parks

True

King County Executive Dow Constantine announced the retirement of Department of Natural Resources and Parks Director Christie True, the longest-serving department director on his Cabinet, after a 39-year career at the agency. Constantine credited True for reinforcing King County's reputation as a trusted environmental steward by producing climate solutions, protecting water quality, restoring habitat, conserving open space, and improving access to parks and trails. The Executive Office will conduct a nationwide recruitment for one of the largest metropolitan natural resource agencies in the country. True started her career at King County in 1984 as a water quality technician, advancing to become director of the Wastewater Treatment Division, the largest of the department's four divisions. Constantine appointed her as the department director in 2010.

Heron's Key

Heron's Key, a Life Plan community located in Gig Harbor, hired Angela Winks as the new wellness program manager. Winks comes to Heron's Key with more than 13 years of experience in the health and wellness industry. As wellness program manager, Winks will be working closely with residents in assisted living and independent living. She will manage the fitness department, life enrichment program and activities programs. Winks spent much of her career working as a personal trainer, fitness director, holistic health coach, and Next STEP program director at various locations throughout Washington. She earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science and kinesiology from Concordia University. Heron's Key, sponsored by Emerald Communities, is a Washington state-based, not-for-profit senior housing and service organization.

Biotech combo to make Bothell its new home

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The Alloy Innovation Center at North Creek has a major new tenant, its owners announced. The publicly traded biotech company Immunome is now based in Pennsylvania. But, this summer it announced a pending merger with our local firm Morphimmune, which closed earlier this month. Alicia Hinds of Alloy said in a statement, “We are thrilled to welcome Immunome to our campus in Bothell, and are confident that our modern facilities will help them achieve their goals. We are delighted that they picked Alloy.” Brokers were not announced. Alloy is the life-science platform for TPG Real Estate Partners, which is based in San Francisco; it co-owns the 13-acre, six-building campus with West Tech Properties. The two purchased the old business park in early 2021 for $62 million, with the announced goal of rebranding and converting it to lab and life-science use. It has about 205,000 square feet, and Alloy didn't say how much space, or on what schedule, Immunome plans to occupy there. The campus has other tenants including Sonic Concepts, Charles River and Athira Pharma.

IPA brokers Portland deal

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Down in Portland, the fairly new 206-unit Sandy28 has changed hands. The Seattle office of Institutional Property Advisors represented the seller, Fairfield Residential, IPA recently announced. The $43 million purchase by Green Leaf Capital Partners had been previously reported. IPA's team consisted of Giovanni Napoli, Philip Assouad, Nick Ruggiero, Ryan Harmon and Anthony Palladino. The latter said in a statement, “The sale of Sandy28 represents one of the only institutional-sized transactions to take place within Portland's urban core in the last 18 months.” Sandy28 is in Kerns neighborhood, east of the Willamette River; it opened in late 2019.

Alexandria to put school in office building

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Alexandria Real Estate Equities is, of course, a big player in the life-science sector. In addition to developing flashy new projects, it's been an active buyer of older buildings up in Bothell. One example is the 143,758-square-foot Canyon Park Heights, which it acquired two years ago, then with a few tenants in place. Soon to displace them, with a nearly whole-building lease first reported by Savills, is a school that's part of the private Basis Independent network. Newmark's Joe Lynch, Dan Harden and Brendan Soelling have been representing the space in the 23-year-old building.

RSIR ventures east of the mountains

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East of the Cascades near Cle Ellum is Suncadia, the resort and residential community with several different components. Newly brokering some of the freshly completed homes, and lots for future development, is Realogics Sotheby's International Realty. That firm and builder Trailside Group recently announced their collaboration. Offerings will be at Suncadia and nearby Tumble Creek, Ederra and Skyline Ridge. The sales effort will be led by Brian Hopper and Dan Redwine under Mountain Haus Properties, an RSIR affiliate. How many homes will be developed and sold? RSIR doesn't say, but values possible future development at $1 billion. Current offerings range from a five-bedroom house at $2.1 million down to a townhouse at $500,000. Some future residents might even be telecommuters or hybrid workers commuting to Seattle, says RSIR. Its Kelly Mann said in a statement, “We have a true affordability crisis in our region, especially within King County — so one way to achieve attainable homeownership is to head over Snoqualmie Pass to Upper Kittitas County.”

Fix your Tesla in Renton?

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Based in Miami, Elion Partners acquired the old Ryerson Metals building in Renton over two years ago. The building, near the junction of Interstate 405 and Highway 167, was then rebranded as Elion Renton 405, with Lee & Associates representing about 115,000 square feet of industrial space, which was vacated early last year. Now there's a tenant, Tesla, according to CBRE, and Tesla already lists the service center on its website. Elion's brokers at Lee were Billy Moultrie, Andrew Hull and Christian Mattson. Tesla has other service centers in Bellevue and SoDo. And, also per CBRE, it recently occupied about 245,000 square feet at the Cascade Business Park in Marysville. Reports of that new-building lease, from developer NorthPoint, emerged in May.

InSite awards lands two WMFHA honors

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The Washington Multifamily Association recently bestowed its annual Emerald awards, and InSite Property Solutions has announced that it took home two prizes. First, in the category of midrise curb appeal was the 130-unit Junction (pictured), in Bothell, which was developed by MainStreet Property Group. Second, for community of the year (up to 150 units), Linq was also so honored. That 94-unit project, also from MainStreet, is in downtown Kenmore.