According to articles in Geekwire and PSBJ this week Amazon has confirmed it will be occupying Centre 425 at the corner of 106th Ave NE and NE 4th St. Amazon plans to move employees into the building this summer. The building is 16-stories, 354,000 square feet of office space, 2,500 square […]
Wild Ginger Bellevue has completed its move from The Bravern to Lincoln Square’s expansion. Sunday marked Wild Ginger’s first day open to the public, as well as the first restaurant open at Lincoln Square expansion. The new location is more intimate at 5,900 square feet, which will seat 165 dinners. […]
Minamoto Japanese Cuisine opened in March at the base of Alley 111 apartment building. The downtown Bellevue restaurant offers Japanese dishes such as sushi and omakase. Minamoto is led by chef Dylan Xu who most recently worked as a chef in New York City. The restaurant has modern decor […]
The 2017 Bellevue Jazz & Blues Festival dates and headline acts have been announced. The festival will run May 31 – June 4 and include Catherine Russell and The Corey Harris Band as headliners. These performances will take place at Meydenbauer Center Theatre and will cost $30 per ticket. Other […]
Bellevue School District students in middle school and high school are participating in the 4th annual class of the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!). These students, which make up 11 new companies will pitch their business ideas to an investor panel in the hopes of getting their companies funded. The event will […]
Hot air balloon rides will be one of the new features when the Bellevue Downtown Park reopens later this summer. The rides will run from July through September. They will take off every Saturday and Sunday morning, last one hour, and cost $250 per person. For an additional $100 riders […]
This week news broke that Portland’s popular, Salt & Straw ice cream shop will open in Capitol Hill later this year. Salt & Straw will join Molly Moon’s, Bluebird, Cupcake Royale, Old School Frozen Custard, and most recently Frankie & Jo’s as top ice cream shops in Seattle (all of […]
W Bellevue Hotel is planned for their opening on June 15, 2017 according to a news release. The hotel is filling over 125 positions for the opening of the new hotel. To look for candidates, the hotel will open a “Talent Casting Center” that will open on Saturday, April 1 […]
BKPLay Academy for Gifted Children is hosting a book fair at Barnes & Noble in Bellevue on April 1 and 2. In addition to selling books, the event will have science shows, hands-on experiments, craft projects, scavenger hunt games, story time, songs and yoga, and more. Mad Science of Snow-King will […]
Kemper Development Company’s Jim Melby and GLY Construction’s Ted Herb spoke at the Bellevue Downtown Association’s monthly breakfast meeting this morning. The topic was building Lincoln Square expansion, one of the largest private development projects in Bellevue’s history. Many interesting facts and figures, as well as some new retail and […]
