On the Block: Patience pays off for Claudio Guincher

Old Bellevue — or what's left of it along Main Street — is fast disappearing. Long before the first floating bridge, Interstate 405 or Bellevue Square, the main commercial strip was oriented toward Meydenbauer Bay, where the ferry landed.

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Continental moves ahead on 2nd and John

Continental Properties has received conditional SEPA and design approvals from the city for 2nd & John, an 80-unit apartment building planned at 200 Second Ave. W., moving the project substantially closer to a master use permit...

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Kirkland complex sells for $40M

King County records show that the 73-unit Capri apartments in downtown Kirkland sold for just under $40.13 million...

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Continental Properties designing apartments near Bellevue Square

Claudio Guincher's Continental Properties is planning a five-story apartment building at 1000 100th Ave. N.E., about a block from Bellevue Square...

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Continental plans 125 Kirkland units

Claudio Guincher's Continental Properties is planning a five-story apartment building in downtown Kirkland. Guincher said the project will have about 125 units and 12,000 square feet of retail space...

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Continental starts Belltown apartments

Continental Properties will break ground today on a 34-story apartment tower on the northwest corner of Second and Virginia. Tower 12 Apartments will have 314 units about two blocks from the Pike Place Market. Most of the units will have...

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2nd & Virginia tower will start as condo, but could be apartments

Continental Properties will start construction early next year on a 34-story tower at Second Avenue and Virginia Street in downtown Seattle that will be built as condos...

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Great Gatsby! High price paid for Continental Properties' new Seattle apartment complex

The Gatsby Apartments, a new complex on Seattle's Capitol Hill, sold Thursday for just over $35.5 million, according to public records. The per-unit price of the 70-apartment building at 1145 10th Ave. E. works out to nearly $507,600...

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Three questions for Claudio Guincher

Claudio Guincher, the head of Continental Properties, hasn’t decided what sort of product he’ll build on the downtown property he bought last week from Columbia West Properties...

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Development site near Pike Place Market sells for $16 million

Continental Properties on Thursday bought a high-rise development site at Second Avenue and Virginia Street in downtown Seattle for $16 million...

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Guincher starts 73 units in Kirkland

Claudio Guincher's Continental Properties broke ground last week on a five-story, 73-unit apartment building at Central Way and Fourth Street in downtown Kirkland...

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A conservative approach pays off for local developer Claudio Guincher

Having avoided much of the pain of the economic crash, Guincher now has half a dozen projects in design and construction in Seattle and on the Eastside...

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70 High-end Apartments on Capitol Hill

Tonight a city design review board will consider Continental Properties' 70-unit apartment project at 1145 10th Ave. E. on Capitol Hill...

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Guincher finds new faith in Seattle Market

After three years of work in western Canada, developer Claudio Guincher has returned to the Seattle area with new optimism, believing the residential ...

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81 apartments for Lower Queen Anne

SEATTLE — Bellevue developer Continental Properties filed plans with the city of Seattle to build a four-story, 81-unit apartment building at 500 Third Ave. W. in Lower Queen Anne...

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Continental Properties buys site for 58 apartments on Capitol Hill

Continental Properties paid $3.7 million for a Capitol Hill apartment site, and plans to start building a 58-unit project there early next month, according to company President Claudio Guincher...

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10th & Highland project for Continental Properties

Continental Properties, a Bellevue developer known for building big condo projects in the mid-2000s in Seattle, is returning to town with a proposal for 76 apartments at 10th Avenue East and East Highland Drive on Capitol Hill...

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Continental starts 56 Newcastle townhouses

Continental Properties will hold a ground-breaking ceremony today for Lake Boren Townhomes in Newcastle. The 56-unit project will be built in phases, starting with 14 townhouses...

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Continental Properties fires back up in Seattle area

After a hiatus of more than three years, developer Continental Properties is buying property again and gearing up to build in the Seattle area...

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Carillon Heights Sale Sets a Record

Yesterday's $66.8 million sale of Carillon Heights, a garden-court apartment property in Kirkland, obliterated the Puget Sound region's per-unit price record...

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Continental Building 80M Ballard Condos

After six years of talk, condominiums are going to be built on a high-profile site in Ballard...

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33 Story Condo to Start this Spring

Claudio Guincher's development career has entered a new phase with a new company, just as he said it would a year and half ago...

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Development Partners Reunite for Next Cycle

Local residential developer Claudio Guincher has launched two new development companies with two very familiar partners. The first is Bellevue-based Continental Properties, which will build high-end apartments and entry-level to moderately-priced...

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More Condos for Ballard

Ballard Place Condominiums is under construction and will be completed by July 2004...

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Metropolitan Tower for Sale at 110M

The Metropolitan Tower high-rise apartments on the north edge of downtown Seattle are up for sale...

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Guincher's control Le Chateau Again

A combination of oversupply in the Bellevue apartment market and prolonged street construction on Richards Road led Continental-Bentall to buy back its record-breaking Le Chateau Apartments for $3.25 million less than the firm sold the complex for...

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New Apartments are High Rise High Rent

Metropolitan Tower is not your typical Seattle apartment building. Even as luxury apartments have begun to pepper downtown Seattle and the adjacent Belltown neighborhood, Metropolitan Tower stands out from its competitors...

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Suite Success

Louis and Claudio Guincher have been right time and again, to the tune of millions of dollars in profits...

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Le Chateau Sale Sets a Record

Le Chateau Apartments at Richards Creek in Bellevue has sold for a record per-unit price of $188,000, according to the developer of the 105-unit luxury apartment complex at 2220 132nd Ave. S.E...

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A little Park Avenue on Virginia Street

The skyline in Seattle's Westlake neighborhood is set to change with news that Continental-Bentall's has broken ground on a high-rise luxury apartment building and also has plans to build two 34-story towers just one block away...

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More Luxury apartments for Bellevue

Le Chateau at Richards Creek, Continental-Bentall's latest luxury apartment development, opened over the weekend in Bellevue, and company Vice President Claudio Guincher calls it "the nicest...

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Guincher sells Montebello and looks ahead

BRE Properties Inc. of San Francisco has paid $33.34 million for developer Luis Guincher's freshly built, 248-unit Montebello Apartments in Kirkland's Totem Lake area, according to King County property records...

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Aspen Creek Sale Price Sets Record

The $21.3 million sale of Aspen Creek Apartments in the Kirkland/Totem Lake area set a new record for both unit price and square foot price on the Eastside...

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