This week in the North West region, most of the news came from San Francisco and Seattle. Check out all the news you might have missed below.Natalie Dolce

NEWS & NOTABLES

SEATTLE—Locally based Zillow Group Inc. has acquired New Home Feed, a streamlined listing management technology that allows builders to input, manage and syndicate their listings across the web.

SAN FRANCISCO—Marcus & Millichap recently revealed that Bill Schofield of the company's San Francisco office has been named a senior managing director investments, according to Jeffrey Mishkin, first vice president/regional manager. Previously, Schofield was a senior vice president investments.

SAN FRANCISCO—Ware Malcomb recently revealed that the San Francisco office has relocated to a new larger location at 360 Pine Street, 2nd Floor, in San Francisco. The move reflects the firm's growing client and employee base in the city and surrounding Bay Area. Ware Malcomb's San Francisco office will continue to be led by Rhea Butler, Director, Interior Architecture & Design. She is responsible for the growth and management of the office, and business development efforts in the region.

SEATTLE—Locally based Amazon recently revealed its $5-billion plans for a second North American HQ, in addition to its existing HQ in Seattle. The company claims that its investments in Seattle put $38 billion into Seattle's economy between 2010 and 2016. Stay tuned.

SAN FRANCISCO—Nick Slonek, Avison Young Principal and Managing Director of the company's Northern California region, revealed that agency leasing specialist Kelly Glass has joined the firm in San Francisco. Effective immediately, Glass becomes a Principal of Avison Young with a mandate to help grow the firm's agency leasing footprint in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area. She will focus on office leasing and landlord and tenant representation, and take the lead on Avison Young's exclusive listing for Beacon Capital's 44 Montgomery St. property, a class A office tower in the heart of San Francisco's financial district.

DEAL TRACKER

MENLO PARK, CA—Woodmont Real Estate Services Scott Pritchett, CPM and president of the company's Commercial Division revealed that the property management firm was selected to manage a new 220,000-square-foot class A Office and Retail property that is just getting underway in Menlo Park. The property, Station 1300, is in downtown Menlo Park bordering El Camino Real and a block away from the Menlo Park Caltrain and is being developed by Greenheart Land Co. Station 1300 will have about 20,000 square feet of retail space, dining options, open spaces and 183 apartments. Woodmont was retained to manage the office and retail portions of the project. There are two office buildings, each designed to accommodate either professional services or tech companies as tenants. The commercial space is expected to be ready for occupancy in late 2019.

PORTLAND—BRE's Portland Capital Markets team has arranged the sale and financing of the Concord Building, a 27,504-square-foot office building located in the heart of Portland's Central Business District and Technology Triangle. Built in 1891 and renovated in 1981 and 2016, the historic Concord building includes six stories of creative office space and ground floor retail, anchored by Mother's Bistro & Bar.

BOTHELL, WA—Holliday Fenoglio Fowler reveals a $17.8-million refinancing of Nexus Canyon Park Research Center, a 141,982-square-foot life science and flex/R&D building in the Seattle suburb of Bothell, WA. The HFF team worked on behalf of the borrower, San Diego-based Nexus Properties Inc. to secure the non-recourse, three-year, floating-rate loan through one of its bank relationships. The building is located within the Canyon Park Business Center just north of Interstate 405, approximately 15 miles northeast of downtown Seattle. Situated on 6.96 acres, the two-story property is 37.8% leased to Epoch Pharmaceuticals, Qilu Puget Sound Biotherapeutics Corp. and Acucela. Having recently undergone a repositioning of approximately half of the building area, the loan facility will provide adequate dollars to finish the lease-up and stabilization of the asset.

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Natalie Dolce

Natalie Dolce, editor-in-chief of GlobeSt.com and GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum, is responsible for working with editorial staff, freelancers and senior management to help plan the overarching vision that encompasses GlobeSt.com, including short-term and long-term goals for the website, how content integrates through the company’s other product lines and the overall quality of content. Previously she served as national executive editor and editor of the West Coast region for GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum, and was responsible for coverage of news and information pertaining to that vital real estate region. Prior to moving out to the Southern California office, she was Northeast bureau chief, covering New York City for GlobeSt.com. Her background includes a stint at InStyle Magazine, and as managing editor with New York Press, an alternative weekly New York City paper. In her career, she has also covered a variety of beats for M magazine, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, FashionLedge.com, and Co-Ed magazine. Dolce has also freelanced for a number of publications, including MSNBC.com and Museums New York magazine.

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