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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL

— March 4-March 17, 2015

CDE Who’s News

Western Development

Group

promoted four of its

employees:

Gregg Johnson,

Lisa McInroy, Phil Brewer

and

Todd Donati.

Johnson was promoted to vice

president of construction of the

privately held

real estate

development

company. He

served as an

officer in the

U.S. Air Force

from 1992 to

1998 before

joining Turn-

er Construc-

tion. In 2005,

he joined Western Develop-

ment, where he has worked on

projects including the construc-

tion of NorthCreek, 101 Univer-

sity office building renovation,

the 200 Fillmore renovation and

construction of 250 Columbine.

McInroy was promoted to

vice president of property man-

agement.

She has a

25-year career

in property

management

representing

clients that

included The

New Hamp-

shire Teachers

Union. She

joined Prime

West Real Estate Services in

Denver in 1992 as vice president

of property management. In

2001, she joined Frederick Ross

Co., and she joined Western

Development in 2006. She has

managed all of Western’s proj-

ects in Cherry Creek.

Brewer was promoted to

director of construction. Brewer

has worked

in the con-

struction

industry for

more than

20 years,

including

working at

Etkin Stanska

Construction

and Adolfson

& Peterson

Construction. He has worked

on projects such as NorthCreek,

250 Columbine as well as Tal-

lyn’s Reach Municipal Cen-

ter and The Timbers Club at

Snowmass. He has a bachelor’s

degree from Purdue University

and a master’s degree from

Colorado State University.

Donati was promoted to con-

struction manager. He began

his profes-

sional career

as an intern

with Western

Development

in 2006 and

was hired as

a full-time

employee

following his

graduation

from the Uni-

versity of Denver in 2008. Since

that time, he managed core-and-

shell tenant improvement con-

struction of office space at 101

University, as well as the build-

out of retail space for tenants in

The Shops at NorthCreek and

the build-out of luxury condo-

miniums, also at NorthCreek.

Jon Gambrill, AIA, NCARB,

LEED AP,

and

Brent Mather

were named principals in

Gensler’s

Denver office.

In his 15 years with the design

and archi-

tecture firm,

Gambrill,

managing

director,

has partici-

pated in the

delivery of a

diverse range

of projects

from complex

commercial

office buildings in the U.S. and

overseas to corporate head-

quarters and high-performance

work environments. Gambrill

earned his Bachelor of Archi-

tecture from the University of

Cincinnati. He practiced pro-

fessionally in New York, Lon-

don, Chicago and Los Angeles

before pursuing a Master of

Architecture at the University

of Illinois and settling in Den-

ver.

Mather,

design direc-

tor, has been

with Gensler

for 17 years

and has

a diverse

portfolio

of award-

winning

work. He has

a degree in

architecture and planning from

the University of Tennessee

Knoxville.

Kevin White

joined

Rocky

Mountain Group’s

Englewood

office.

White joined the architec-

tural, engineering and plan-

ning firm with 26 years of

experience in geotechnical

engineering. He is a licensed

Professional Engineer in Utah,

Nevada and

California.

White

earned a

Master of Sci-

ence degree

in arctic engi-

neering from

the Univer-

sity of Alaska

and a Master

of Science in

civil engineering (geotechnical)

from the University of Bruns-

wick. He also has a Bachelor

of Science degree in civil engi-

neering from the University of

Brunswick.

Boots Construction Co.

pro-

moted two staff members to

the position of principal.

Chad Bartlett

and

Tyler

Jackson,

LEED AP,

are

the newly

named prin-

cipals and

have been

with the firm

since spring

2005.

Bartlett

and Jackson

join exist-

ing principals Todd Thomford

and Cody Sparrow, along with

President Jim Boots, in forming

the general contractor/con-

struction management firm’s

management team.

Bartlett, who received his

degree in construction man-

agement from the University

of Northern Iowa in 2002, is a

senior project manager with

the firm. He has played a

leadership role in many of the

firm’s projects and his experi-

ence includes a wide range

of tenant improvement and

renovation projects for clients

operating in the office, retail

and medical sectors.

Jackson graduated from Col-

orado State

University

in 2001 with

a degree in

construction

management.

He worked

for another

firm before

joining the

Boots team

in 2005. He

began his career in the field

and then transitioned to a proj-

ect management role.

Chelsea Semelka, LEED GA,

is the newest member of

Work-

shop8’s

interior design depart-

ment.

She works with interior

designer Kat Van Sluyter and

the architec-

ture teams

to fully inte-

grate interior

materials,

colors and

layouts into

projects.

Before

joining the

architecture,

design and

planning firm, she gained

experience with commercial

interiors and systems furniture

at Sedgwick Business Interiors

and Corporate Environments.

Semelka graduated with

honors from Rochester Institute

of Technology in 2011 with a

Bachelor of Fine Arts in inte-

rior design and a minor in art

history.

Gregg Johnson

Jon Gambrill

Brent Mather

Kevin White

Chad Bartlett

Chelsea Semelka

Tyler Jackson

Lisa McInroy

Phil Brewer

Todd Donati