The City of Bellevue has approved plans for Pinnacle North, a large mixed-use project that will bring six new residential towers and retail space to downtown. The development will be located at 10112 NE 10th Street and will replace the existing Le Chateau Apartments, a two-story office building, and surrounding surface parking lots.
Pinnacle North will include a total of 1,613 residential units, with 85 of those units designated as affordable housing. The towers will range in height from 14 to 26 stories. To support residents and visitors, the project will provide 1,784 parking stalls spread across four levels of underground parking. In addition to housing, the development includes ground-floor retail and commercial space, with approximately 97,000 square feet set aside for a supermarket and service-based shops.
The project will also bring new open spaces to the community. Two public plazas are planned, including a 13,605-square-foot plaza on NE 10th Street and an 8,051-square-foot plaza on 102nd Avenue NE. These plazas are designed to serve as outdoor gathering areas with water features, interactive art, and seating.
Two additional plazas will be created for residents, offering amenities such as a dog park and a community garden. A pedestrian pathway, known as the Through Block Connection, will provide an east-west walkway through the site, connecting 102nd Avenue NE to 100th Avenue NE and improving overall walkability.
The six residential buildings will be arranged around four landscaped open spaces, creating what the developers describe as a “front porch” effect for both residents and ground-floor retail.
The project will be built in two construction phases, with Buildings 4 through 6 expected to be completed before work is finished on the two tallest towers, Buildings 1 and 2. Altogether, Pinnacle North will add about 1.27 million square feet of residential space and more than 21,600 square feet of publicly accessible outdoor areas.
The site currently contains 66 apartments at Le Chateau, along with a swimming pool, landscaped areas with mature trees, and a large surface parking lot. Eleven of the apartments are already vacant as the property prepares for redevelopment.
Completion of Pinnacle North is anticipated around 2028.
All this endless new housing and No New Retail in Bellevue is insane..bring some more high end stores; bloomingdale’s, Saks, bring Neiman Marcus back, Primark… IKEA.
Bring the Bellevue Art Museum back!
I also agree ,Seattle and Bellevue do not invite high end retailers, you may be one of the few cities without luxury retailers, very provincial.
Who want Saks, or Neiman Marcus? Sorry, time has sailed past. Beingn expensive and pretentious do not equal joy and freedom for the new generations.
Interesting, thousands of new apartment units built in King co.and my property taxes continue to go up! Where is the money going?
We have a high end Nordstrom that carries luxury designers. We also have the Bravern that has shops like Gucci and Hermes.
IKEA? That’s not luxury and there is a smaller one coming into Redmond.
NM and Bloomingdale’s continue to CLOSE stores rather than open since 2020.
They also said all buildings will have retail space.
Read up on what you’re talking about before you comment.
This unending destruction of Bellevue is turning this city into an undesirable piece of crap. Traffic, congestion and loss of easy access to the places we visit daily (grocery stores, banks, dry cleaners, etc). Quality of life is being sacrificed for the almighty dollar and city leaders are go, go, go on destroying what Bellevue used to be and replacing it with many horrible, intrusive high rises. What a tragedy.
Bellevue is no longer the quaint little down. It’s been destroyed by developers one block at a time.
Let’s talk about some of the beauties the city has allowed in the past few years: The Bravern was a failure from the start-it’s a ghost town, although the residences have done well, the retail is a disaster. The Venn building at the corner of Old Main and Bellevue Way is derided as one of the ugliest, cheap and crappy buildings in the area. Nobody likes the way it looks. Old Bellevue is certainly going the way of every other parcel in West Bellevue. Torn down to make way for something lesser (and bigger). Imagine Pike Place Market if it had been razed for condos back in the 70’s. One of the latest failures is the grand Avenue project on NE 8th, where Bellevue would become home to the most luxurious residences, world class hotel, fancy schmancy shopping. Ugh. The city allowed a set back shallower than the one I was allowed for my home. The hotel has no restaurants, because all the tentative tenants pulled out at the last minute. The shopping there is a joke. The city also allowed 2 major projects on NE 8th to be constructed at the same time, right across the street from each other at 106th and 108th. That was 2 years of traffic hell and of course all of these offices and apartments are required to have retail on the street level, but with no street parking and no public interest, many of these retail spaces stay vacant for years. Case in point is the retail for the apartments on the south side of Main St near 106th. Many of these spaces have been vacant for years. Now we are going to lose the Bellevue Village QFC and Bartell (now CVS), all in the name of density (that we locals do not want or support) and the almighty $$$$. Maybe I am old, but trust me, I pay a lot of taxes and they go up every year, and for what? For a city that is eating itself day by day.
I agree with the comments above. Bellevue will be like a ghost town in a couple of years’ time when the recession hits. And it doesn’t look like it offers anything for children, and I don’t see much green space. Is there even going to be a swimming pool? Traffic is already bad where they want to build. It is changing the village atmosphere where Bartells and QFC are into a monstrous development. What is going to happen to the QFC there?
I disagree with most of these comments. When we moved here in 1955, Bellevue was a crummy little town. No hospital, no mall, no parks — had to go to Seattle for everything. Bellevue has concentrated its growth into the downtown, while preserving a myriad of lovely single family neighborhoods (although, the foolish legislation passed by the Democrat monopoly in Olympia allowing multiple dwelling units on every lot may screw that up). It has lovely parks, the best retail in the Pacific Northwest, and a city council that expects and allows its police to keep it the most crime free city of its size in the region. And all that is paid for with some of the lowest millage rates in the state by a robust business community. What’s not to like? Well, traffic, which is arguably better than in any of our surrounding cities, and primarily exacerbated by the state’s failure to build adequate capacity on our three freeways. What’s also not to like? The fact that we’re ensconced in the State of Washington and the County of King, among the most liberal and business-unfriendly jurisdictions in the nation. Among the highest real estate excise taxes, property taxes, inheritance taxes, gas taxes, car registration taxes and more — the primary reason so many of the people who built this great city have concluded they can’t afford to live or die here and are flocking to ‘red states.’
Come to Kirkland for these complaining it
People are out here mourning a parking lot and dusty old business park buildings, lol. Thank God for more walkable urbanism and housing! I hope it keeps getting worse for cars here, and better for pedestrians. This new development sounds great.
I 100% agree with Bob Wallace’s comments above.
Bellevue development and transportation dept rule in favor of developers at every turn.
They say they want residents downtown, but I have literally had to walk 8 blocks to get 2 blocks because of closed sidewalks.
I have had a landscaper literally trying to force me to walk back 3/4 a block to get to the other side because he was planting flowers on a sidewalk, and I guess his union wouldn’t let him plant a flower with a pedestrian walking by.
There were no signs indication the sidewalk was closed.
Just today , there was an orange clapboard sign on the sidewalk on 106th Ave NE, 1/2 block before 8th (heading south). It said “traffic revision ahead “. Without telling people what that revision was. Basically it caused an unnecessary 3 block backlog during non peak hours on a light where people wait many minutes for each green.
Can’t imagine what happened later during peak hours.
What I am saying is that the City of Bellevue employees sit in their offices / or likely at home , and have no idea the chaos they create for residents downtown. And when you bring it to their attention, they don’t respond, and close the case.
We should not bring more dense residents downtown Bellevue, until we have leaders willing to not just collect our taxes, but willing to try to walk through the closed streets and sidewalks , support the businesses who are crippled by endless construction, and end the constant concessions to developers to close lanes, work outside of legal hours and days.
As an aside, and first positive step, most cities don’t allow trash collection from 10pm- 6am. Make that a rule and enforce it. As you approve more and more residents downtown, consider QOL.
I’m so glad I don’t live in Bellevue anymore. It has turned into a homogenous soulless concrete jungle geared towards the materialistic social climber set. I avoid it at all costs.
Downtown Bellevue’s Safeway is a disgrace, but will swiftly be the only option. It’s a decrepit relic of a store, so outdated it’s shocking. It remains in disrepair, and has had broken glass in the exact same place (among the other trash) for well over two years.
(And, what happens if they ever decide to remodel it?!)
In a city this wealthy, it’s unbelievable to be left with a food desert. This development is supposed to be creating an inviting walkable town, but there isn’t adequate availability to prevent the need to contribute to traffic on the tightly packed roads.
Best to let City Council of Bellevue Members know your thoughts
Since I believe they approve any projects for Bellevue
Election is up November 4!
I agree with lot of the comments above
Too many high rise building
Minimal affordable housing
Talking away small business not good when new buildings are build
End up with high end retail stores as noted in developments that occur
There are land in Bellevue that I see by Kelsey park that are empty. Maybe build there if is available to do
Need more parking
Bellevue needs more green space and interesting buildings – why not mixed architecture like quaint cafes and chef owned restaurants with sidewalk seating (the restaurant would need to be built back from the sidewalk to allow dining, plus a sidewalk for passerby access for pedestrians). Charm!! Small cute places not enclosed in office towers (boring).
Do developers ever travel overseas and get new ideas?? Create charm, culture, ambiance – UVillage has some charm… for a local example. Bravern needs more restaurants and yes maybe Bloomingdale’s or boutiques. I used to go for Sur La Table.
Keep Main Street quaint!! Agree, Venn and the entire Safeway and that apartment complex is dismal.
Why can’t affordable homes look nice instead of the dull architecture and colored stucco.
Parks! Green space in the core NE 4th-10th from Bellevue way to Bravern.
Vital: safety and security, clean and green!
Bellevue needs more green space (think Amsterdam’s Vondelpark, museums, public pianos, and interesting buildings – why not mixed architecture like quaint cafes and chef owned restaurants with sidewalk seating (the restaurant would need to be built back from the sidewalk to allow dining, plus a sidewalk for passerby access for pedestrians). Charm!! Small cute places not enclosed in office towers (boring).
Do developers ever travel overseas and get new ideas?? Create charm, culture, ambiance – UVillage has some charm… for a local example. Bravern needs more restaurants, art, museums, and yes maybe Bloomingdale’s or boutiques. I used to go for Sur La Table.
Keep Main Street quaint!! Agree, Venn and the entire Safeway and that apartment complex is dismal.
Why can’t affordable homes look nice instead of the dull architecture and colored stucco.
Parks! Green space in the core NE 4th-10th from Bellevue way to 112th is in need of green space!
Vital: safety and security, clean and green!