Top Companies Headquartered in Bellevue:
AAA Washington
American Family Insurance* Applied Discovery, Inc.
ArenaNet
Boeing
Bsquare
CH2M Hill*
Coinstar
Conner Homes
Drugstore.com
Eddie Bauer
Esterline Technologies
Expedia.com
First Mutual Bancshares
Gene Juarez
GLY Construction
Inca Engineers
InfoSpace
Interlinq Software
John L. Scott Real Estate
Kemper Development
KeyBank*
Lydig Construction
MulvannyG2 Architects
Murray-Franklyn, Inc.
North Coast Electric
Overlake Hospital
PACCAR, Inc.
Parker, Smith & Feek, Inc.
PCL Construction
Penford Corp
Pokémon USA
Polygon Northwest Company
Puget Sound Energy
Saflink Corporation
Savers Inc.
Scolr, Inc.
Solutions IQ
Sucker Punch Productions
Symetra Financial
The Burnsteads
T-Mobile USA
Valve Software
Waggener Edstrom*
Zango
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Tremendous growth is occurring in Bellevue and companies are choosing to relocate to the Eastside's urban center. Bellevue is the first choice for many startup companies and established companies alike. Bellevue also has a number of exciting new investments in progress that are attractive reasons to move to our community:
- Recent transactions include Microsoft (1.3M sf taking three major Bellevue office projects), T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless. Microsoft is poised to become Bellevue’s largest employer by the end of 2009, employing over 7,500 people.
- Bellevue’s central business district has 2.6 million square feet of office space under construction with an additional 2 million square feet in the pipeline. Office towers under construction include Hines’ Tower333, Bentall’s Summit Building C, and Beacon Properties’ City Center Plaza. In addition, a major mixed use projects (retail, office and residential) under construction is Schnitzer West’s The Bravern.
- Also currently under construction are 3,200 residential units with an additional 3,500 in the pipeline. Most of these projects include both residential units along with retail at the ground floor. These projects include Gering Edlen’s Bellevue Towers, Hanover’s The Ashton and Ten20 projects, Wasatch’s Washington Square and AvalonBays’ Avalon Meydenbauer.
- Bellevue’s Main Street is getting a significant face-lift with two new projects. The One Main project from One Main Street Partners is under construction with SRM’s Bellevue at Main under review.
- A partnership between Overlake Hospital Medical Center and Group Health Cooperative is developing two new state-of-the-art towers on the current Bellevue campus. In addition, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center plans the development of a medical center in Bellevue.
- A $40 million facelift of Bellevue Square continues with Nordstrom, Banana Republic, Pottery Barn, and Victoria Secret completing major expansions.
- Several new restaurants opened recently including Palomino at Lincoln Square and Toscano restaurant and Panini’s Bistro & Wine Bar in Bellevue’s new luxury retirement development, The Bellettini. In addition, several new eateries are set to open in late 2008 including Blue C Sushi and Boom Noodle in Bellevue Square and Purple Café and Barrio in the Bellevue Towers.
- Hospitality is booming in Bellevue with the recent opening of the Westin and Bellevue Downtown Courtyard by Marriott, and the grand re-opening of the Hilton Bellevue. A major renovation and expansion of The Hyatt Regency Bellevue will add 351 guest rooms and 50,000 sq. ft. of event space to open in Summer 2009. The Marriott Residence Inn is nearing completion just South of downtown and Hotel Sierra just opened in Bellevue’s Eastgate area. Other proposed hotel projects include HEI’s Marriott Hotel and Kemper Development’s The Bellevue.
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Construction cranes on the Bellevue skyline are an indicator of a vibrant economy.
Aerial view of downtown Bellevue.
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