The City of Bellevue has approved a new Master Development Plan (MDP) for Washington Square, a project located at 10620 NE 8th Street in Downtown Bellevue. The plan outlines a two-phase development that will bring both office and residential towers to the southwest corner of the block.
The updated approval replaces an earlier plan that called for an eight-story hotel and a 20-story office building. Under the revised proposal, the site will instead feature a 12-story office building and a 27-story residential tower, along with ground-floor retail and site improvements. The change required a new Master Development Plan application under Bellevue’s Land Use Code.
The project will be built in two stages. Phase 1 covers the northern portion of the site and includes a 140,000-square-foot, 12-story office tower. This phase also calls for demolition of part of an existing building, removal of a surface parking lot, and new pedestrian connections. Transportation improvements are planned along 106th Avenue NE, NE 9th Place, and a north-south connector road on the east side of the property.
Phase 2 focuses on the southern portion of the site, which will house a 27-story mixed-use residential tower with about 350 to 440 housing units, ground-floor commercial space, and a large public plaza. The exact timing for Phase 2 has not yet been determined. Until then, existing buildings and parking areas on the southern parcel will remain in use.
Each building will have its own underground parking structure, but they will not connect to one another.
The development site currently contains a 17,900-square-foot office building and a paid surface parking lot. The building will be demolished before Phase 2 begins.
The project sits within a superblock that already includes the two Washington Square condominium towers, the Hilton Garden Inn, the Bellevue Office Tower, and the newly built The Eight Office Tower. Smaller one- and two-story retail buildings also occupy portions of the block.
With Master Development Plan approval secured, Phase 1 of Washington Square will begin with the office tower, followed by the residential tower in Phase 2.
