REI, the Seattle-based specialty outdoor retailer and nation’s largest consumer cooperative, is moving its Redmond location, in the fall of 2016, to better serve over 126,000 active REI members in the Bellevue area.
As mentioned in May REI Bellevue will occupy 40,00 square feet of the second level of the Bellevue Central Shopping Center at the northeast corner of 116th Avenue NE and NE 4th Street. The store will feature over 40,000 square feet of space featuring a wide range of outdoor equipment and services.
According to the report earlier this year the two other retailers besides REI that signed leases there: grocer Trader Joe’s and HomeGoods, a home décor and furniture store.
Beginning in Seattle in 1938, REI originally opened a store in Bellevue in 1984, establishing the second store in Washington and ninth store nationwide. Now, after moving to Redmond in 1998, the co-op will return to Bellevue.
