Over the weekend the City Center Building, where Microsoft occupies, was lit up to spell out “bing” with the lights of the building. The 26-story building is one of the 4 new Microsoft Towers in Downtown Bellevue within the past 2 years. Bing is Microsoft’s search engine that they’ve recently […]
Commercial Real Estate
Construction Halted on Summit III Office Tower
According to a Seattle Times report, developer Bentall Capital is pausing their Summit III project, which has been planned to be a 15-story, 330,000 square-foot office building at 108th Ave NE & NE 4th St. The project is across the street from Tower 333, also known as the Expedia Tower. […]
Office Space Vacancies Increase in Downtown Bellevue & Seattle
A story today, in the Seattle Times, reported on vacancies affecting the downtown Seattle and Bellevue office markets. Downtown Seattle has had an 8.3% increase in vacancies, from the same time last year, changing from 12.6% to 14.7% according to a Cushman & Wakefield report. Downtown Bellevue, while not as […]
2 Avalon Meydenbauer Retail Tenants Close
Both Giraffe HTJ and Zounds Hearing are now vacant spaces at the Avalon Meydenbauer retail complex. With just over a year in business for Zounds, and even less for Giraffe, they have both closed their doors. From the beginning it was clear that Giraffe HTJ, with its obnoxious distracting strobe light flashing, was […]
KeyBank District Headquarters to Stay in Downtown Bellevue
KeyBank will maintain their district headquarters that is in Downtown Bellevue at Key Center, on the corner of 108th Ave. NE and Bellevue Way, according to an article on Friday by the Puget Sound Business Journal. After searching for alternative space, KeyBank’s Rick Wirthlin said, “The landlord made it very attractive […]
Recruiting Tenants for Lincoln Square 2
A recent video created by the Bellevue Collection depicts the benefits of bringing businesses to the Eastside overall, and specifically the opportunity of occupying space at Lincoln Square 2 once it is complete. There is no newinformation communicated in the video regarding features, time lines to build, companies occupying, etc. […]
Microsoft Has Arrived at The Bravern
By the end of May, over 1,500 Microsoft employees had begun moving into The Bravern office space, where they will occupy 2 office towers. Currently, Microsoft occupies 11 floors in Building One and is expected within the next 2 & 1/2 months to occupy the additional available space, for a total of […]
New Downtown Bellevue Office Tower Approved by City
A report Friday afternoon from the Seattle Times confirms Bellevue city planners have approved a 450-foot office tower at NE 8th St and 110th Ave NE by development company Beacon Capital Partners of Boston. The proposed project is reported to be 32-stories, and capacity for 691,000 sq. ft. of office […]
New Plans for Office Towers on NE 8th
In an article on Friday, the PSBJ reports Beacon Capital Partners LLC is creating plans for a high- rise office tower in the core of Downtown Bellevue at 10833 NE 8th St. The newly proposed building would be 32-stories of office space and would be positioned to accomodate a 2nd […]
Yahoo! Subleases space, confirmed again
In an article in the PSBJ Monday, it was restated that Yahoo plans to sublease half of their office space at One Twelfth @ Twelfth. Over a year ago, Yahoo took over 115,000 square feet of office space with the hope of growing Yahoo’s presence in the Puget Sound. They […]
