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Business | Lake Hills Shopping Center’s second Arts | 6th annual Bellevue Jazz phase will turn area into an urban-commercial Festival brings top talent to town May 29 to June 2 [17] FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2013 village [7]
Bellevue Collection to get $1.2B expansion Construction is set to begin next year on a $1.2 billion expansion of The Bellevue Collection in downtown Bellevue. When completed in 2016, Kemper Development's retail-officehotel complex will grow by two million square feet. The move comes as Kemper Development has logged 48 consecutive months of sales increases. The number reflects retail sales of $853 per square foot, double the International Council of Shopping Center’s industry average. “With the influx of high net worth individuals and the area’s booming
tech market, luxury retailers have been circling the Pacific Northwest region in search of high profile locations for some time,” said Kemper Freeman, the third generation to head the company that bears his name. “With nearly 95,000 square feet of new, high profile, street front and additional interior space, our expansion will give luxury retailers the presence they have been looking for, and the sophisticated Northwest consumers the shopping experience they crave.” In addition to more than 375,000 square feet of new retail, dining and
entertainment space, The Bellevue Collection’s mixed-use expansion plans include 700,000 square feet of Class-A office space, a 250-room luxury hotel, an additional boutique hotel, approximately 500 high-end residential units and an additional 3,700 free parking spaces in two 6-level underground parking garages. The new complex has been anticipated for some time now. In January, Kemper bought the property on which family-owned Oriental Rug Co. SEE EXPANSION, 7
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Lead scientist John Slough, of Bellevue, stands in the University of Washington Plasma Dynamics Lab in Redmond where he and his crew are conducting fusion experiments for a mission to Mars. Pictured are blue high-voltage capacitors and a massive magnet. Story page 16 Andy Nystrom, Reporter Newspapers.
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The Bellevue Collection’s mixed-use expansion plans include more than 375,000 square feet of new retail, dining and entertainment space. COURTESY PHOTO
The verdict's in: Residents give high marks to city Residents continue to give ■ 94 percent said the Bellevue high marks when overall quality of services it comes to quality of life, meets or exceeds expectathe quality of city services tion, up from 92 percent in and the desirability of their 2012; and 83 percent said neighborhoods as the city is headed in places to live. the right direction, up BELLEVUE City Council from 79 percent last members Monday CITY COUNCIL year; got their first glimpse ■ 93 percent deof results from the scribed their neighborcity’s annual Perforhood as a good to excelmance Measures Survey, lent place to live, the same statistically reliable data percentage as the past two representing the views of all years; Bellevue residents. High■ 56 percent of those lights from this year’s survey surveyed feel there is an include: overall positive sense of com■ 96 percent rated Belmunity in their neighborlevue as a good to excellent hood, down from 63 percent place to live, compared in 2012. However, those who with 97 percent in the 2012 feel their neighborhood has a survey; 95 percent said the “strong sense of community” overall quality of life meets or exceeds expectations as an rose from 16 percent in 2012 to 19 percent in 2013; and ideal city, the same result as the 2012 survey; SEE BELLEVUE, 6
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