New apartments open in Garibaldi

Residents are set to begin moving into the new Garibaldi Bayview Apartments at the east end of the city and seven lots prepared for home construction above the complex are on the market.

The 3-acre project was shepherded by the development team of Paul Daniels and Ron Halter and marks the third complex they have partnered on in the city in the last decade.

Friends since high school, the men became involved in development in Garibaldi in 2014, constructing and operating the Garibaldi Village and Garibaldi Creekside apartments.

Daniels has lived in Garibaldi for 33 years after starting a career in excavation in California, and Halter has been a developer in the Willamette Valley for 18 years after working in aerospace.

Daniels said that the partnership began over a conversation at his kitchen table a decade ago and joked that “this whole thing took about 30 seconds to start.” After deciding to team up, the pair found a property within days and hit the ground running.

Progress on the Bayview project began in 2019, when Daniels and Halter purchased the property near the east end of the city on Highway 101. The coronavirus pandemic delayed the planning and permitting stages of the project significantly, preventing work from starting until last year.

After starting work, the pair’s experience helped to bring the project to fruition expeditiously and 12 of the complex’s 18 units had been inspected by the last week of June, with the rest due for inspection in the coming days.

Each of the units will be one bedroom and 710 square feet, with larger apartments not possible due to the property’s topography. Rent will cost $1,450 and pets are welcome.

Originally, Daniels and Halter had hoped to build more apartments at higher elevations on the three-acre property, but neighbors’ hesitance ended up leading to the decision to subdivide the rest of the property for single-family homes.

The subdivision created seven properties on the hillside above the apartments, with six around a quarter of an acre in size and the seventh larger. Daniels and Halter added two new streets to access the properties, as well as underground utility lines to make the properties construction ready.

The pair have worked with the local contractors who worked on the apartments to develop home designs that will comply with the covenants, conditions and restrictions they have attached to the properties. There will not be a homeowners’ association in the subdivision and the building restrictions are aimed primarily at maintaining neighbors’ views, according to Daniels.

Halter’s daughter, Sheri Baker, is representing the properties and encouraged prospective buyers to reach out to discuss financing and construction possibilities.

The apartments will be managed by the same person who oversees Daniels and Halter’s two other Garibaldi complexes as well as a full-time maintenance person.

Halter said that he thought this was probably the duo’s last project in Garibaldi but allowed that another opportunity might draw them into another.

“Is this the last project,” Halter wondered. “I don’t know. If I get bored and scratch my belly and look around and Paul feels like doing it again, we could find a spot.”

Please visit garibaldivillageapartments.com for more information.