BELLEVUE | Onni 606 | 600 FT / (182 M) x 3 | 60 + 60 + 46 FLOORS

[Altoic]

606 106th Avenue NE
https://www.bellevuedowntown.com/go/606-106th-ave-ne

Two Mixed-Use Residential (Towers 1 & 2)
One Mixed-Use Office (Tower 3)
60 Stories (Tower 1)
60 Stories (Tower 2)
46 Stories (Tower 3)
1,606 Residential Units (Towers 1 & 2)
64,525 Square Feet of Active Use Space
2,318 Parking Spaces

Onni may start work this year on three Bellevue towers
https://www.djc.com/news/re/12148747.html

The city of Bellevue hasn’t yet approved the three-tower Onni 606 project downtown, but there are new signs of activity at 606 106th Ave. N.E. First, Barnes & Noble recently announced that, come September, it’ll move to Crossroads from its longtime home in the former bowling alley. A demolition permit is now underway for that and the former John Danz Theatre.
The tenant for the latter, Doxa Church, moved to Redmond last month, after seven years of renting the old cinema. A fundraising effort is now underway to buy its new home in an old industrial building near Marymoor Park.

Planning for the site began roughly year earlier, yet the permit activity has been fairly quiet since then. Onni is, of course, very busy with two major projects in Seattle.
Six levels of underground parking, plus one semi-structured level, would have around 2,455 stalls. Access would be midblock from 106th, leading to a covered porte cochere and two dozen structured parking stalls. About 288 bike stalls are also planned.

The floor counts are still a bit unknown right now due to new info coming out, but the title reflects correct data, at least from a while back.

[Urbannizer]

Is there a height limit for Bellevue?

[Altoic]

DT-O-1 zone has a max height of 600 FT for all residential or office buildings.



This zone is relatively small, and it's the only area that allows 600 FT. Other areas are lower height maximums. I'm pretty sure outside of the area for 600 FT towers, the height limit is something like 450 FT.



https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/10/20/bellevue-adopts-new-downtown-livability-standards/

[Urbannizer]

This was posted back in December:

[Urbannizer]

Site prep underway.


https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/b...-approved.2162212/page-16#post-197220082

[mhays]

Assuming this starts it'll be quite a boost for Downtown Bellevue.

It's something like 3.5 acres and would have 1,400 housing units, 300 hotel rooms, 900,000 sf of office, and significant retail. (Or maybe less office and more housing...they've filed to shift the hotel to the office tower.) That would be a noticeable boost due to the volume and mix of uses.

But also it's in the center of Downtown. The center has a few big underused sites, arguably because the 600' zoning raises the bar for anything to happen. This means the center of Downtown can be less lively than the fringes. This project would give the district more of an activity peak at the center.

[ChiND]

With limited exceptions, Seattle and its suburbs have built so many mundane towers. They missed a golden opportunity. Miami and Austin did the same thing.

[mhays]

In this case Bellevue's 600' height limit and lack of "flair bonuses" is a big part of that. Everybody builds leasable/saleable space to the limit.

I care about skylines but the volume of development is a bigger thing. Street frontages too.

Also, iirc this has a fraction of the parking that would be common in most of the US, even in some central cities.

[Zapatan]

Is the 60 floor figure new / will they still only be 600'?

[mhays]

After demolishing down to the slabs several weeks ago, they're now digging up the slabs. full clear/grade and mass-ex/shoring permits are still pending, but they still have permits for demo and limited clear/grade.

The heights haven't changed. They'd have to do serious design and permitting work even if more height was allowed, which it isn't. Residential buildings in this region tend to be right around 10' per level, so 60 in 600' makes sense.

Live stream from the air: https://www.youtube.com/@onni606/live