Michele Guidinger, administrative manager for the company's metro-area operations, had been handling the extra duty since the previous city manager Joe McWilliams left in late 2002 to direct the assembly of right of way for the Seattle Monorail project.
C&W's 16 local brokers makes it the 13th largest brokerage firm in the region. If it is looking to become one of the top two firms in the region, it would have to more than quintuple its number of brokers. The largest firm in the region, GVA Kidder Mathews, has 114 brokers, and the second largest, CB Richard Ellis, has 90 brokers.
On the property management side, C&W ranks 19th, with 2.4 million sf under management. The top two in the region, Trammell Crow Co. and GVA Kidder Mathews, have 18.4 million sf and 13 million sf, respectively.
The news comes a couple of weeks after one of its competitors, Grubb & Ellis, announced that Craig Hill, most recently the company's vice president of investment sales and office leasing, has been tapped by Northwest area director Bob Dean to take on the additional role of sales manager and lead a charge to triple the number of brokers with the firm to 20 by the end of the year. As part of that plan, Hill this spring is moving G&E's Downtown office from 3,000 sf in One Union Square to 6,000 sf in Two Union Square. As well, the company is planning to shrink its 3,000-sf Eastside presence to a 1,000-sf satellite office where brokers can plug into the system without having to return all the way to home base Downtown.
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