Washington’s largest non-profit conservation and urban planning organization has hired the Port of Tacoma’s former executive director, Tim Farrell, as its new chief program officer.
Farrell will lead Forterra’s policy, conservation and stewardship departments.
The former port chief executive lead the Port of Tacoma until late 2009, when the Port of Tacoma commission decided to replace him. Farrell left office at the port at the end of December 2009, but remained on the payroll on call through May 31, 2010.
Farrell’s departure was prompted in part by problems with the $1.2 billion NYK Line terminal project and by the downturn …