Buried behind a storm of mammoth projects are yet more potential development proposals in Downtown Bellevue. While these projects don’t possess the scale of the mega-projects addressed in the previous article, they do jockey for their potential place in the city’s skyline and will impact the look and feel of the neighborhood for years to come. When you combine these budding projects with everything that has been completed since 2018 and under construction, Downtown Bellevue emerges as a pincushion that developers are jabbing their high-rises into. The result will be a very different skyline in the not-so-distant future.
If the 24 projects in permitting counted for this article are constructed, 25 new midrises and towers could be added to Downtown Bellevue. In total this could result in the construction of 2439 residential units, 1.1 million square feet of commercial space, and over 5301 parking stalls. This doesn’t even include figures for three high-rise developments whose details are less accessible at the moment.
Aggregating these figures with projects constructed since 2018, under construction, and the mega-projects, Downtown Bellevue has seen the construction and is expecting the construction of 118 new midrises, high-rises, and skyscrapers. All together downtown is counting over 13,100 new residential units, over 16 million square feet of commercial space, likely over 2,000 hotel rooms, and over 43,300 parking spaces constructed since 2018, under construction, and in permitting.
In the interactive map below you’ll find details on the projects in different stages of development that pepper Downtown Bellevue, including completed, under construction, construction-ready, and also inactive projects. While the projects that have fallen through are unlikely to materialize, they represent the increasingly limited development capacity left in Downtown Bellevue.
