Crime you ask? Well yes, there actually happens to be some crime in Bellevue. The city of Bellevue has posted the FBI’s crime results for the first half of 2007. Impressively there were no homicide cases in the first half of 2007! The most notable stat is that Bellevue’s violent […]

The Seattle Times ran an article this weekend about the downtown “building boom.” Although having 15 projects underway in Downtown Bellevue, there have been very few complaints to the city due to noise. An interesting fact to note from the article is that the city in the past has only […]

Curious what all the police cars were up to at the Washington Mutual in Downtown Bellevue at Northeast Eighth Street and 108th Street NE Monday afternoon? According to Bellevue police at 12:23pm December 31st, a 23-year-old man was leaving the bank when an off duty police officer was driving by […]

The Puget Sound Business Journal has put together a very lengthy article on Kemper Freeman Jr. and his Bellevue empire. They have credited Kemper as “Executive of the Year.” The article takes you through his journey of the days when Bellevue Square was an outdoor mall, to the point now […]

For all of those out there that are proud BECU customers you will be delighted to hear that BECU will be opening a banking branch at the corner of NE 2nd & Bellevue Way in Downtown Bellevue. The branch will be opening in spring at one of the retail locations […]

AerialPan Imaging has put together a breathtaking panorama aerial tour of the Downtown Bellevue Skyline. This imagery was shot directly above the Bellevue Towers project. The photography gives a great sense of the magnitude of construction taking place in Downtown Bellevue with the many cranes towering high above the ground.

The Elements Too project, which you might have seen under construction (as we voted it Downtown Bellevue’s most festive construction project) has been a bit more quiet than some of the other major developments in the Downtown Bellevue core, but will be just as prominent once it’s complete. The 22-story […]

The plans for a 36-acre “urban village” in Bellevue’s Bel-Red Corridor were reported yesterday in The Seattle Times. The proposed project would consist of 800 apartments, retail space, acres of open recreational space, and over 3 million square feet of office space. The “urban village” will be built in an […]

The city is debating implementation of traffic light video and photo cameras to catch red light violators. The decision is if the city should implement a one year trial with the equipment or not. If decided favorably, the cameras would be installed at approximately six different Bellevue locations. You can […]

The Bellevue Reporter, a community newspaper in the local area, had a front page story on Robert Spector’s Generations: Kemper Freeman Jr. and the Freeman Family. But good luck actually finding the book (all you’ll find is used copies)! The story of the Freeman family begins with his great-grandfather coming […]