In less than two year’s time, Bellevue will be down one of its three post offices.
The Bellevue Way and Midlakes branches will close by mid 2013, and retail operations will be moved to a new facility in downtown Bellevue, representatives from the United States Postal Service announced Monday evening.
When Bellevue and Sound Transit finalized an agreement to fund a downtown tunnel for East Link light-rail through Bellevue last week, it was the culmination of years of political wrangling, and another three months of intense discussions between officials on both sides. When it was done, they had an agreements spelling out the alignment and how much Bellevue will contribute to the tunnel.
Police are searching for five suspects who broke into an Eastgate home, shot one person and assaulted another, sending them both to the hospital.
With hints of snow in the forecast in the coming weeks, and Bellevue has ratcheted up its preparation.
This season is expected to be another La Nina winter – wetter and colder – similar to last year. Puget Sound residents were lucky last year, with only one significant snow storm, but this could be another big year.
Bellevue residents have waited more than three weeks to find out who will be their seventh, and final, City Council member.
And the wait continues.
The race between Parks and Community Services Board Member and retired attorney John Stokes, and land-use attorney Aaron Laing will be subject to a recount by hand of the nearly 35,000 ballots received from Bellevue.
Construction crews perched 30 feet off the ground have taken down the recognized Top Food and Drug sign. In its place is the name Haggen, an iconic moniker in the northern part of the state.
It’s not just the name that’s changing at Crossroads’ Top Foods, it’s the product, the prices and the style. Starting Wednesday, shoppers will be able to experience the airy, colorful signature of King County’s first Haggen Food and Pharmacy. The changeover is philosophical, not in ownership. It is meant to create a more personal, Northwest-friendly shopping experience for the customer.
A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning, Bellevue police said.
At 10:07 a.m. officers responded to reports of an apartment shooting at 111 108th Ave. NE. They found the body of a man in the apartment. Police are investigating on the scene, and will provide more details.
It took months of negotiations, countless meetings and days of private sessions, but the Bellevue City Council on Monday gave unanimous support to a light-rail agreement to fund a tunnel through downtown.
The 7-0 vote was a proud moment for the council, which has been marred with struggle over placement and cost of East Link light-rail for the last few years.
For State Rep. Ross Hunter, the Seattle Supersonics leaving town was heartbreaking. He was a longtime fan, but like other Washington lawmakers he refuses to be held for ransom by the National Basketball Association.
The race to replace departing City Council Member Grant Degginger is nearly deadlocked, and incumbents in other races are leading after the first batch of tallied votes were released Tuesday night.
In one of the closest races in the state, retired attorney, and current member of the Parks and Community Services Board John Stokes holds a slim 127 vote lead over land use attorney Aaron Laing. Incumbents Claudia Balducci and John Chelminiak both garnered approximately two-thirds of the vote in their elections.
Schnitzer West LLC has put the Shops at the Bravern up for sale, the company announced Friday.
“It has always been a part of our business plan to recapitalize the Shops at The Bravern through a sales transaction,” stated Dan Ivanoff, founder and managing investment partner at Schnitzer West. “Market conditions are aligning such that we can achieve the investment objectives we established for the property.”
For Adam Brown and Jason Reid, the pain of losing the Seattle Supersonics remains fresh.
As documentarians of the movement to keep the team in town when Clay Bennett moved the franchise to Oklahoma City, they had a front row seat for the political hand wringing, litigation and fan heartbreak that accompanied the team’s departure in 2008.
With expectations of more growth downtown, Bellevue has begun a process to reshape its transportation policies.
An open house Tuesday at City Hall served as the public kickoff for the Downtown Transportation Plan Update.
The face of Crossroads is undergoing big changes, but the character remains the same.
Each candidate for Bellevue City Council has received hundreds of donations from individuals and companies, all under the watchful eye of the state’s Public Disclosure Commission.
The much-anticipated Tateuchi Center is $2 million closer to reality.
Microsoft partnered with Kemper Development Friday to announce the donation of $1 million a piece toward the performing arts center. The two companies have a long history of collaboration, but they have built competing stances on Tim Eyman’s tolling Initiative 1125, of which Freeman is the principal backer. But the two sides came together for a cause that transcends politics.
The Bellevue City Council did not take a position on Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1125 after a deadlocked vote Monday night that included more than an hour of debate and criticism.
The United States must push for the most productive work force in the world and pursue more free trade to remain a top economic power, Republican presidential hopeful and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney told a crowd of Microsoft employees Tuesday.
Romney promised to crack down on international trade “cheaters” like China during his speech, which was held on Redmond’s Microsoft campus in front of 200 employee donors to the company’s political action committee.
A masked man held up an Eastgate bank Tuesday, loading an undisclosed amount of cash into a black bag and escaping on foot.
The man entered the bank and told everyone to put their hands up, and he jumped over the counter and took money from multiple teller tills before running out the door.
Arjun Sirohi takes in a cool fall morning on his second-story deck. A lush, green backyard flanked with a line of trees and hedges protects the home from the noises emanating from the nearby street. But he can’t help but look at the orange line drawn midway through his backyard – the place, he says, where Sound Transit may locate tracks for its East Link light-rail trains.
