Author: vik

Gerding Edlen: Get used to the newest developer!

Puget Sound Business Journal released an article on the newest developer in Downtown Bellevue. If you’ve been paying attention, then you’d know that Bellevue Towers (next to the Bellevue Galleria) is going up really quickly! The concrete frames have risen up to at least 20 stories – each, and both […]

David Lawrence concludes Bellevue Fashion Week with 400 Friends!

The line ran from Fashion Axis all way down Northeast 8th Street. It was still a little before 7.00pm. The line would continue for another 30 minutes. Had Apple opened a new store? Hardly. With fashion week winding down in downtown Bellevue, there was only one way to end what […]

Bellevue’s Circulator Bus!

The Seattle Times reported that the Bellevue City Council this week approved a downtown circulator bus that would run both directions in a loop along Bellevue Way, Main Street, 110th Avnenue Northeast and Northeast 10th Street. The service, set to being late next year/early 2009, still have one more hurdle […]

Remember the crane that fell last year?

Remember the crane that fell in downtown Bellevue in November of 2006? Well, it fell on the office Pacific Continental Corporation, the bank holding company for Pacific Continental Bank, announced the completion of an extensive reconstruction project of its office inside the Plaza 305 building according to CNN. The renovation […]

Nau Changing the World, Interview with Jil Zilligen

And Nau for something completely different. Portland-based, Nau is changing the way clothes are made and bought. Just a walk inside their “webfront” (which is a term they use for store) and you’ll feel the difference. It’s by far the most green resident inside Bellevue Square and with Fashion Week […]

Downtown Bellevue – No Vacancy?

Is downtown Bellevue full? Has she reached maximum occupancy for office space? These questions are asked with new news that Microsoft and other companies are having to look elsewhere. Not only that, but F5 Networks who is also growing has ended up signing a lease in the Factoria area right […]

Bellevue? Yahooooo!

Earlier this month we had a post about Yahoo! potentially moving to downtown Bellevue. Well no more speculation on that – Yahoo! has signed a preliminary agreement to take 120,000 square feet very close to Microsoft’s downtown offices. In addition to this news the Blackberry maker, Research in Motion, is […]

Picture Day | Tower 333

Happy Labor Day everyone! We thought today would be a great day to share some pictures in our possession from up on top of the construction site of Tower 333 in downtown Bellevue. We hope you all enjoy them.

New Marriott to serve Bellevue

Bellevue! Get ready for your second Marriott. A developer and hotel operator is in advanced discussions with Marriott International, Inc. to brand the hotel a full-service Marriott Hotel. HEI Hotels & Resorts, a rapidly growing hotel ownership and operating company, announced on August 28, 2007 that it is planning to […]

Vida Condos: Sustainable living comes to Bellevue

According to developers, what will be the most sustainable mixed use space in Bellevue is planning on opening in late 2009. Tonsing Properties LLC of San Francisco and ProNet Capital LLC of Denver bought the one acre site at 111th Avenue Northeast and Eighth Avenue Northeast for $10 million to […]