Sale story
What a sale of the Bellevue Collection could change
The ownership record, paused expansion and next developments to watch.
Inside the Bellevue Collection
In Bellevue Square, two levels of shops face a concourse beneath a skylit pitched roof. Across Bellevue Way, the Collection continues through restaurant floors, hotel lobbies and skybridges, with offices and homes in the towers above.
These few blocks run on different clocks: weekday coffee starts before the mall opens, while a hotel bar advertises weekend DJs until 1 a.m. The shopping center is one part of a district whose destinations are spread across buildings, floors and hours.
Four developments around Bellevue Way
Bellevue Square is the mall west of Bellevue Way. Bellevue Place, at the north end of the district, combines the Hyatt Regency with offices, shops and restaurants. Lincoln Square North brings together dining, cinema, offices and the tower shared by The Westin and condominiums. Lincoln Square South adds restaurants, the food hall, offices, W Bellevue and rental homes.
Where this is
More about this map
Gold outlines simplify county research parcels by development, including parking; internal seams are omitted. County snapshot: 29 August 2026. The shapes are for orientation, not building footprints. Drag to explore; scroll to zoom. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors; tiles by OpenFreeMap. Blue: the 2 Line.The streets give these buildings separate entrances; skybridges connect parts of the district above them. The official indoor map lets you choose a floor and find a destination within the buildings.
Different reasons to come
A shopping errand, or time with a book
Nordstrom is one of Bellevue Square’s department-store anchors. Its Bellevue page lists clothing and shoes alongside services such as alterations and pickup. Barnes & Noble on level 1 offers a different sort of stop: books, magazines, toys and games alongside the mall’s clothing stores.
A meal across the street
Din Tai Fung offers a sit-down meal of dumplings and noodles in Lincoln Square North. Its current location is on level 1, following its 2024 move from the upper floor; its Bellevue page has the menu and reservation options.
For a larger table, Baron’s Sino Kitchen & Bar serves modern Chinese cooking on level 2 of Lincoln Square South. Its main room seats up to 290, with three private rooms and banquet menus, which suits a family dinner or a celebration. It opens at 11:30 a.m. daily and stays open until 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
In Lincoln Square South, DOTE Coffee Bar serves coffee, chocolate and treats in the level 2 food hall. It advertises a 7 a.m. weekday opening, ahead of Bellevue Square’s 10 a.m. general mall opening.
Ramen, tea and something sweet
Bellevue Square has its own run of quick stops between shops. Kizuki Ramen & Izakaya serves ramen and small plates on level 2. On level 1, CHICHA San Chen makes Taiwanese tea to order, a brand the directory dates to 1998. Level 2 has the sweets: Lady M for its layered mille crêpe cakes, Mochinut for mochi doughnuts and Korean corn dogs, and Me + Crepe for jianbing, the folded Chinese street crêpe. Most keep the mall’s hours, opening at 10 a.m. Monday to Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday.
An evening setting in a hotel
At W Bellevue, the Living Room Bar and The Porch add a bar and an open-air setting on level 2 of Lincoln Square South. W’s dining page advertises Friday and Saturday DJs from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Getting there and parking
The 2 Line’s Bellevue Downtown station, at 594 110th Avenue NE by the Bellevue Transit Center, is the nearest light rail stop. From there NE 6th Street runs west to Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square.
By car, the rules differ by building. According to the Collection’s parking page, parking at Bellevue Square is free for shoppers and diners. At Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square, a purchase earns three free hours with validation on weekdays before 8 p.m.; after 8 p.m. and all weekend, no validation is needed. The three hotels offer valet parking at hotel rates, and the garages have paid electric-vehicle chargers.
The connections are part of the visit
Above and beside the shops are places to work, live and stay. The Hyatt Regency, The Westin and W Bellevue are the Collection’s three hotels. Offices share their developments, and One Lincoln Tower and Two Lincoln Tower add condominiums and rental homes. The owner’s hotel directory places the hotels within these four developments.
A door marked Bellevue Square leads onto a bridge above Bellevue Way. Moving between destinations can mean changing floors as well as buildings. The official indoor map shows that vertical geography, with floor selection and symbols for stairs, escalators and lifts.
There is also a calendar
Some programs take the district beyond its shopfronts: onto Bellevue Way for evening performances, or into the mall for music and cultural activities.
Snowflake Lane
The organizer’s Snowflake Lane page lists nightly performances along Bellevue Way between NE 4th and NE 8th streets. As checked on 3 November 2026, its advertised schedule is 27 November through 24 December, at 7 p.m. The show loops, so it can be watched from either side of the street. Its visitor notes say weeknights are less crowded, that weekend visitors should arrive an hour early, and that the Bellevue Square side is the easier one for accessibility; large wagons and strollers are discouraged.
The holiday program starts the same evening, 27 November, with the Wintergarden tree lighting at Bellevue Place before the 7 p.m. show. Santa photos in Bellevue Square’s Center Court need a reservation. A block west, the Bellevue Downtown Ice Rink in Downtown Park runs from 13 November to 18 January, with skate rental included in admission.
Lunar New Year
The 2026 Lunar New Year program included Chinese music, martial arts, lion and dragon programming, crafts and displays. Named partners included the Seattle Chinese Culture and Arts Association and the Overseas Community Affairs Council, Republic of China (Taiwan). The event was held on 21 February 2026; a future edition’s program has not been verified.
A shopping center grew into a district
Kemper Freeman Sr. opened Bellevue Shopping Square in 1946. Bellevue Place followed in the late 1980s, Lincoln Square North in 2005 and Lincoln Square South in 2017. These additions brought more uses across Bellevue Way; the mall became one part of a larger district of shopping, dining, work and stays.
A possible ownership change is the subject of the separate Collection sale story.
The same blocks, different hours
A morning coffee, an afternoon shopping errand and a late evening at W occupy the same few blocks, on different floors and schedules. Together, those layers give a fuller picture of the Collection: a familiar mall can also be the starting point for dinner across the street or an evening upstairs.
Hours, menus and programs change; the links above go to each operator’s own page, which is the one to check before a visit. The sale story and nearby Downtown Park are covered separately below.
How this was checked
How this was checked
Current business locations and offerings were checked against the Collection’s official listings and operator pages on 3 November 2026. Examples were selected to explain different kinds of visit, not to rank businesses or establish measured popularity, repeat visits or footfall. No field observation of present-day activity is claimed.
The additions checked on 4 November 2026 rest on the same kinds of source. Baron’s hours and seating come from its own website, which agrees with the Collection’s directory. Kizuki, CHICHA San Chen, Lady M, Mochinut and Me + Crepe are linked to their Collection directory entries, which carry their floor and hours; their own websites list no Bellevue Square store page. Parking rules come from the Collection’s parking page, the holiday program from its holiday page (which omits the year; 27 November is a Friday in 2026), and ice rink dates and prices from the rink’s 2026–27 admission page.
The indoor map was inspected for floor selection, listed facilities and depicted bridge connections. Those symbols do not verify current lift operation, opening hours of connecting spaces, a complete step-free route or a legal right of public access. Tenant and mall hours are separate published listings.
The four development outlines group the saved 29 August county research parcels for orientation, with thin internal seams removed. They are not building footprints. The bridge photograph is dated 4 June 2023; it does not verify current opening or access arrangements.
The Lunar New Year example describes past 2026 programming. Snowflake Lane is the organizer’s currently advertised schedule, checked on 3 November 2026; the retrieved headings omit the year. The city’s older 2025 event listing does not establish a 2026 permit. Historical company records do not establish present beneficial ownership or the scope of a possible sale.
Sources (23)
Sources and limits
- The Collection’s official indoor map
- Nordstrom location and directory entry
- Barnes & Noble location and directory entry
- DOTE location and hours; owner’s general mall-hours listing
- Din Tai Fung location and offering
- Bellevue Chamber’s dated relocation report
- W Bellevue dining and social spaces
- The Collection’s hotel directory
- Snowflake Lane organizer program
- Past 2026 Lunar New Year program
- Dated 21 February 2026 performance/activity schedule
- The Collection’s history
- Baron’s Sino Kitchen & Bar hours, seating and rooms
- Kizuki Ramen & Izakaya directory entry
- CHICHA San Chen directory entry
- Lady M directory entry
- Mochinut directory entry
- Me + Crepe directory entry
- Sound Transit: Bellevue Downtown station
- The Collection’s parking rules
- Snowflake Lane visitor notes
- The Collection’s holiday program
- Bellevue Downtown Ice Rink admission, 2026–27
Photo credits
- The bridge entrance toward Bellevue Square from Lincoln Square: Another Believer, 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Updated 3 Nov 2026. Reframed around the district’s places, connections and different reasons to visit. Selected venue, indoor-map and program sources checked on 3 November; historical photographs remain dated.
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