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New pizza restaurant

to come to Bethesda Row

Vapiano, a casual restaurant serving made-to-order fire roasted pizzas, fresh house-made pasta and hand-tossed gourmet salads, signed a lease with Federal Realty to open a corporate-owned Vapiano restaurant in Bethesda Row. This will make the fifth corporately-owned Vapiano in the region and Vapiano's first location in Maryland. Vapiano will open in a new Federal Realty building, adjacent to an Equinox fitness facility and will join Jaleo, Le Pain Quotidien, Mon Ami Gabi, Raku, and several other successful restaurants already in Bethesda Row. This 5,400-square foot Vapiano will seat 200 plus guests including a large patio and lounge area. Vapiano has retained Matteo Thun, an award winning designer from Hamburg Germany, to head up design on the Bethesda Row location.

Vapiano has over 50 locations worldwide with franchised units in development across the United States in cities such as Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and Houston, Texas, Ft. Meyers, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, IL and Manhattan, NY. Vapiano continues to target key markets such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami, and New York for corporate expansion.

Chevy Chase resident named president of land title group

The American Land Title Association's board of governors officially installed Chevy Chase resident Mark Winter as its 2009-2010 president during the association's annual convention in October.

Winter, who is executive vice president of public policy for Stewart Title, succeeds Mike Pryor as ALTA's president.

A key component of Winter's mission for ALTA in 2010 will be the need to examine and respond to the many proposals addressing financial services and mortgage reform.

Winter brings 30 years of industry and policy experience to the position. In addition, to being a long-time member of the board of governors of the ALTA, Winter is chairman of the association's International Development Committee, immediate past Chairman of the Underwriters Section, a member of the Government Relations Committee and the Title Industry Political Action Committee Board of Trustees. Prior to joining Stewart, Winter was Director of Government Affairs at ALTA.

Bethesda attorney named Community Associations Institute president

Jason Fisher, an attorney at Lerch, Early & Brewer in Bethesda, has been named president of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the Community Associations Institute for 2009-10. Fisher co-chairs the firm's Community Associations practice group, where he practices in the areas of community association law, civil litigation, real estate, bankruptcy and creditors' rights. The local chapter of the national Community Associations Institute has nearly 2,800 members including 300 businesses, 650 professional managers from 100 management companies, and more than 1,700 community association volunteer leaders. WMCCAI is one of 59 Community Associations Institute Chapters and is the largest in the nation.