Bellevue City Council recently received an update on the Grand Connection with the news that Amazon will match Bellevue’s $2.5 million in funding 30 percent design for a pedestrian bridge that would cross from Bellevue City Hall Plaza to Eastrail. The Grand Connection today links people and places through the […]
Financial technology company, SmartAsset, recently did a study identifying where women are most successful in the United States, with a focus on earnings, education, and employment. They compared 200 of the largest U.S. cities across five metrics. The five metrics are percentage of women older than 25 with a bachelor’s […]
Mayor Lynne Robinson of Bellevue, recently cut the ribbon in the Spring District to welcome Meta to the neighborhood. An open house was held at Block 16. Block 16 is an 11-story building, which Meta leased in 2019. It features 338,000 square feet of office space. The company signed a […]
It was recently made public that Walmart subleased office space at Bellevue Place. The space in Downtown Bellevue was previously occupied by Smartsheet. We reported in August 2022 that Smartsheet consolidated their headquarters into once location in Bellevue, moving out of Bellevue Place. Employees are now solely working at the […]
The Shop, a haircut salon for men and women, is now closed in Downtown Bellevue. It was located across the street from the Bellevue Downtown Park. The address was 37 103rd Avenue Northeast in the Borgata Apartment Homes. The hair salon was located in Downtown Bellevue for over a decade. […]
The software company, Smartsheet, recently moved out of their designated headquarters in Downtown Bellevue at Bellevue Place. When employees choose to come into the office, they will be working from the City Center Bellevue tower. According to a Smartsheet spokesperson, Smartsheet is currently assessing plans to reimagine its space in […]
Geekwire recently published an article following up with the question of Amazon being taxed in Bellevue. Danny Westneat from The Seattle Times wrote an article in June asking if an Amazon tax would be coming. This was after a Bellevue City of Council meeting took place in March discussing the […]
Amazon recently announced that they will be pausing construction on six of their office towers in Bellevue. The six towers total more than three million square feet of space. One tower’s construction is immediately halted, Bellevue 600’s second tower, while the other five’s exterior shell and core work will be […]
Microsoft currently has five different leases in Bellevue. One of the leases is set to expire in years to come, and they will not be renewing it, according to Puget Sound Business Journal. The tech company confirmed that they decided not to renew the Advanta lease in September 2023. Microsoft’s […]
Since first moving much of their employees to the Eastside, Amazon now has close to 10,000 Bellevue-based employees. This number will continue to grow, as they have committed to increasing the employee count to 25,000. The company expects to have 10,000 employees on the Eastside by summer 2022. Later this […]
