Arts Center names gift planning director...

Arts Center names gift planning director

The Performing Arts Center of Orange County recently appointed

Patrice M. Poidmore director of gift planning. Poidmore, who formerly

served as a board member and senior director for the guilds of the

center, as well as senior director of social market relations for the

Orange County American Heart Assn., will now work with individuals

looking to make deferred gifts part of their estate plan.

Poidmore, who received The Chairman’s Cup Award from the center’s

board of directors, has also been honored by OC Metro as Woman of the

Year and by the National Philanthropic Society of Orange County as

Volunteer of the Year.

Newport Beach Yacht Club earns fame

The Newport Beach Yacht Club recently served as the location of

the digital video sequences for Version 4.0 of the Verizon Internet

Learning Disc. The “restaurant owner” sequence of the film was shot

in the club’s dining room by Hollywood South Producer-Director John

Denlinger to show how businesses will benefit from web sites.

Keeping with the local theme, Corona del Mar actress, Jacqueline

Bruchman played the restaurant manger in the film. Additional

shooting of the film concluded in May.

The full service media production facility, Hollywood South,

produced all four versions of the award-winning learning disc,

similar to the more than 65,000 that Verizon has distributed

previously and handles nationwide production.

A big sale for Turner Development

The Turner Development Corp. of Newport Beach completed a 77-acre

A. J. West Ranch project in Lake Forest and recently sold the final

12 acres after two and a half years.

Turner credited the project’s success with the fact that Turner

Development is a small firm in comparison to its largercorporate

counterparts. Costa Mesa based Armstrong-Butcher Properties, LLC,

bought the property and plans to use the site to develop 29

industrial buildings.

Turner Development, has been known for finding strong development

opportunities for industrial product and has completed more than

three million square feet of building. The corporation, which was

founded in 1979, is currently looking for additional acquisitions in

Los Angeles, Orange County, the Inland Empire and San Diego.

CT Reality names a VP of aquisitions

The Newport Beach based real estate investment and development

firm, CT Realty Corp., recently announced that Scott Hamilton has

joined the firm as vice president of acquisitions. Hamilton will now

be responsible for the acquisition office, industrial/R&D; and

mixed-use properties throughout Southern California.

Hamilton brings with him more than 17 years of experience as he

previously served as vice president of acquisitions and dispositions

at Koll Bren Schreiber Realty Advisors. He holds his bachelor’s of

science degree in business administration with an emphasis in real

estate and finance and a master’s degree in real estate development

from the University of Southern California.

Hamilton, who is also a member of the Urban Land Institute, the

Real Estate Investment Advisory Council and a licensed California

real estate broker, was welcomed to the firm.

CT Realty Corp., was established in 1994 and has completed more

than 100 transactions totaling about $1 billion. The company’s has

continued to focus on acquiring well-located assets at values below

replacement costs along with value-added potential to allow for

attractive profit opportunities.