And yes, I work for tips — contact me at jthompson@bizjournals.com or 206-876-5440. One of downtown Bellevue's biggest restaurant openings is almost here.

BELLEVUE -- A kitchen fire in Spazzo Mediterranean Grill nine floors up in the Key Bank Building brought a dozen fire rigs to downtown Bellevue shortly before 9 a.m. yesterday.

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BELLEVUE, Wash. — Bellevue's Mayor Lynne Robinson walks through the Downtown Park on a sunny day and smiles. "Downtown is our fastest growing neighborhood," said Robinson, who said the pandemic ...

That’s just not the space, but the things that go on, the visibility and profile of downtown Bellevue as a destination for that sort of thing. I think right now it’s a little thin.

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