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Johnson

Pacific Northwest law firm Lane Powell added three attorneys to its Seattle office: Aaron Johnson, Jonathan Schirmer and Avin S. Singh. Johnson, counsel to the firm on the Tax team, joins Lane Powell from PwC, where he worked as a tax manager. Johnson represents U.S. and international businesses in state and local tax matters including tax controversies, tax planning and structuring tax-efficient transactions. Johnson is currently an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University and an affiliate instructor for the University of Washington. Schirmer joins the firm from Ahlers Cressman & Sleight as an associate on the Commercial Litigation and Construction teams. Schirmer has represented property owners, general contractors, subcontractors, developers and design professionals on complex public and private matters. He is admitted to practice in Washington and Alaska. Singh joins the firm from Cozen O’Connor as an associate on the Commercial Litigation and Construction teams. He is an experienced litigator who counsels on common and complex commercial, construction, product liability, property damage and general tort matters involving state as well as federal laws and regulations. He is admitted to practice in Washington and Hawaii.

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CBRE announced the recent hiring of four new brokers, all of whom make the move from Colliers. Tony Ford specializes in real estate advisory for office tenants, primarily among tech and professional services firms. Bill Cooper specializes in office tenant representation. Joe Riley chiefly represents and advises office tenants. Taylor Olson also focuses on office tenant representation. CBRE’s John R. Miller said in a statement, “To attract brokers of this caliber to our occupier group is a true testament to CBRE’s reach and resources. We continue to foster a culture where the best and brightest can collaborate to create a competitive advantage for our clients.”

CCIM Washington State Chapter announced its recently elected 2022 board members. They are led by board president Larry Eu, of SperryCGA — Easerich Commercial Real Estate. Eu said in a statement, “I am indeed honored and privileged to be elected by an elite group of commercial real estate practitioners and industry leaders.” Other board members are Travis Baker of Regency Centers, Matt McLennan of Kidder Mathews, Devin Mecham of NAI Black and Kelly Richardson of Rowley Properties.

Olsen

Mighty-O Donuts announced that Erik Olsen will be the new operations manager of the five-store company. He will oversee staffing, supervise operations and processes, as well as ensure quality across all departments. Prior to Mighty-O, Olsen worked as the director of food and beverage at Columbia Hospitality, as well as the food and beverage manager at Columbia Tower Club. Mighty-O was founded 21 years ago by Ryan Kellner. The company sources most of its ingredients from local and organic vendors and producers. It has stores at Green Lake, Ballard, Capitol Hill and the Denny Triangle.

Natural Systems Design (NSD) promoted Colin Riordan to project scientist and Nic Truscott to senior engineer. New additions to the firm’s staff include Lisa Remlinger as operations lead, and Kim Smith as marketing coordinator. Riordan joined NSD in 2015 and in his early days led field efforts and data analysis for the BPA and RCO effectiveness monitoring efforts. Since that time, he’s expanded his capabilities to include GIS and spatial analysis, habitat suitability analysis, riparian ecology, and wetlands work. Truscott joined NSD in 2017 and has spent much of his time advancing stream and logjam engineering designs with the Bureau of Reclamation, Chelan County, and more recently with Skagit County, Lummi Tribe and Nooksack Tribe. Remlinger has more than 16 years of experience overseeing programs and initiatives in support of natural resources, clean water and climate programs. She has extensive experience with policy development and has advanced community forests, endangered species conservation plans, forest carbon projects and clean energy siting guidelines. Smith brings more than 25 years of experience in marketing, business development and event management for the AEC and technology sectors. She has managed, written and edited numerous winning proposals for such firms as Tetra Tech/KCM, INCA Engineers, Black & Veatch and the former CH2M Hill. NSD, founded in 2003, is a team of scientists, engineers and planners. It has over 45 employees in its Seattle, Bellingham and Port Angeles offices.

Jan 19, 2022

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Voskanyan

Estrich

Parks

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Lewis

Lipko

Crates

GGLO announced eight staff promotions. Danielle Stehman, Geoffrey Parks, Hannah Estrich, Harut Voskanyan, John Justham, Lexi Crates, Michael Lipko, and Whitney Lewis have all been promoted to associate. Stehman joined GGLO’s Boise office in 2020. Her work is grounded in the ongoing pursuit of sustainable urban design at all scales. Originally from the East Coast, her projects have focused on adaptive reuse of older building stock. She is particularly interested in how policy around land-use planning and housing affordability can shape a healthy diversity in our cities, while preserving our natural wilderness. Parks joined GGLO’s Boise office and has played an integral part in many of the firm’s projects in the Mountain West region. With over 25 years of experience, he has been part of a broad array of project types. Parks is a past president of AIA Central Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma City Historic Preservation Commission for seven years and currently sits on the Idaho State Historic Sites Review Board.

Since joining GGLO in 2019, Estrich has worked in model management, design documentation, detail development and material research, and has extensive experience in high-end retail and architectural hardware design. Estrich serves on GGLO’s Justice, Equity, Diversion and Inclusion (JEDI) committee, Equitable Design group and Fabrication Shop team. Voskanyan has been working in architecture for over 15 years on a number of projects ranging in typology and scale throughout California. Starting early in his career he had the opportunity to take on developing Revit standards at his past two firms.

Since joining GGLO in 2017, Justham has kept all three of GGLO’s offices running smoothly as the firm’s office administrator. Justham has years of experience in the hospitality industry and at GGLO has coordinated firm-wide events and managed daily office operations, creating positive interactions with other GGLO employees and anyone who interacts with the company’s offices. Crates has over eight years of experience. As a Wisconsin native, she earned her bachelor of science degree in architectural studies and masters of architecture from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Although the majority of her time has been spent in the Midwest, her project scope ranges from China, Canada and all throughout the United States. Crates has experience in a wide range of project types including office spaces, tall buildings, multifamily residences and senior living facilities.

Lipko hails from the Atlantic Northeast, where for over 16 years he worked on a diversity of landscape projects for civic, institutional, commercial and residential clients throughout the bioregion. Lewis has eight years of experience in multifamily and commercial markets in Washington and California. Active within AIA Seattle, she was one of the co-chairs of AIA Seattle’s Diversity Roundtable, where she worked to promote the committee locally, regionally and at a national level. Lewis is on the AIA Seattle board of directors, is the chair of the Professional Practice steering committee, is a co-chair for the Justice and Equity for Diversity and Inclusion task force, and is a member of the Urban Land Institute Pacific Northwest Affordable and Workforce Housing Council. She also serves on GGLO’s Justice, Equity, Diversion and Inclusion committee and Equitable Design group.

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Swenson Say Fagét Structural Engineers (SSF) also announced eight recent promotions. Chardie Byrne was promoted to managing principal/operations. She joined SSF in 2000, was promoted to principal in 2007, and has served as a member of SSF’s management team for the past 13 years. As a managing principal, Byrne will continue working closely with fellow managing principals, Dan Say, Blaze Bresko and Ryan Reichman, providing leadership and strategic vision to SSF’s internal operations.