Bellevue News

Jimmy Choo Coming to The Bravern

Look out Nordstrom, the high end retailers are coming in full storm! According to a press release from Schnitzer West, shoemaker Jimmy Choo Inc. is the latest luxury retailer to land in Downtown Bellevue. The shoe retailer will open its first shoe boutique in the Northwest at The Bravern, a […]

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 […]

Study Finds Bellevue Zip Codes Have Among the Thinnest People in King County

A study from the University of Washington, which KOMO news reported found the thinnest zip codes in King County were Mercer Island, Magnolia, Green Lake and our very own Bellevue! More than 25 percent of residents in south King County were considered obese. Included in these areas are Renton, Kent, […]

El Gaucho to open at City Center Plaza

El Gaucho, one of the Pacific Northwest’s great steakhouses is reported by the Puget Sound Business Journal to be coming to Downtown Bellevue. The chain currently has locations in Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland. The Bellevue location will occupy space in the City Center Plaza building when complete. El Gaucho was […]

Nordstrom Kicks Off Bellevue Fashion Week!

In true Bellevue style, Hometown favorite Nordstrom kicked off the 2007 Bellevue Fashion Week Friday in stunning form with its Fashion Show! With a sold out crowd around 400 people for the Fall Fashion Runway Show, Fashion AXIS was packed for the second annual event. Once inside Fashion AXIS, the […]