Perspective
There comes a point when commercial enterprise can overstep its bounds. I am a lifelong capitalist, but even I find it difficult to reconcile when consumerism is wrapped in the veil of public service. I'm thinking of Simon Property Group's creating a book club for children. The club, called Kidgets, ostensibly supports children's literacy. Part of the idea is to get thousands of children to the mall to hear a reading of a book entitled, "Adventures in the Park" and featuring characters "developed by Simon Brand Ventures," as the cover proclaims. On face value, this seems like a wonderful community-based idea. However, how are these children getting to the mall? Most likely with parents or guardians who have loads of disposable income to spend once inside the shopping arcades. It might be better for Simon to promote children's literacy by possibly funding a local library—preferably separate from the mall property.
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CB RICHARD ELLIS
(PHOENIX) Chris Hook and Luke Walker earn berths as senior vice president and first vice president, respectively. Hook is a founding partner of CBRE's call center solutions group. Walker joined the company five years ago.

JPI
(SAN DIEGO) Stephen Dominiak rises to divisional president and managing partner for the Western Division.
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COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL INC.
(PHOENIX and WALNUT CREEK, CA) Pete Hattasch, Allen Avey, Gordon Carll, Joshua Landers, Kevin Lange and Gail Lance-Huntoon come on board in Phoenix and Scott Kirkpatrick joins the Walnut Creek, CA team. Joining the private capital advisors' team are Hattasch, with 25 years in business management for the aerospace industry; Avey, a 25-year professional who until recently was the owner and designated broker for AL-ternative Spaces Commercial Real Estate Services; and Carll, a specialist in single- and multi-tenant retail investment properties. Landers is assigned to the office division, focusing on turnkey operations in the West Valley market while Lange joins the landlord services' group and Lance-Huntoon is made sales manager for web, marketing and information. Kirkpatrick, with 22 years in the industry, is named senior director of property management operations. He most recently was director of office properties for a 1.1-million-sf, class A portfolio of Sierra Pacific Properties.

FOREST CITY ENTERPRISES INC.
(CLEVELAND) Paulette T. Caputo is hired as marketing director for 14 properties for the commercial development group in the headquarters office. She previously was vice president of marketing and business development for Urban Retail Properties Co. Diana Fiore, formerly marketing director in Palmdale, CA, was promoted to marketing director for the 1.2-million-sf NorthField at Stapleton, which opens in the fall in Denver. Melina Ferraez, previously a marketing coordinator, also is named marketing director, assigned to the Promenade in Temecula in Temecula, CA. Tricia Granger rises to marketing director at Antelope Valley Mall in Palmdale, CA.

NAI HORIZON
(LAS VEGAS) Stephen McFadden takes a seat as managing director after relocating from Columbus, OH, where he spent 10 years in commercial real estate and 15 years in operations and sales.

NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION
 (WASHINGTON, DC) The 24-member board of directors gets five newcomers. Starting their first three-year terms are Mark Allison, with the Supportive Housing Coalition of New Mexico in Albuquerque; William Apgar, Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA; Gail Burks, Nevada Fair Housing Center; Maria Cabildo, East L.A. Community Corporation in Los Angeles; and John Zirker, Nashville Homeless Power Project and Resident Association of James Casey Holmes Housing, also in Nashville.

FELCOR LODGING TRUST
(IRVING TX) Troy A. Pentecost joins as executive vice president and director of asset management. Pentecost previously was senior vice president of operations and divisional vice president of operations for Remington Hotel Corp. in Dallas.
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