September 8, 2025

Pinnacle wants 10-year schedule for building initial 1,613 Bellevue units

Rendering via JYOM [enlarge]

Looking northwest, a new grocery store is indicated on 102nd.

In the fall of 2018, Canadian developer Pinnacle International forked over $145 million to acquire an old Bellevue shopping center and surrounding parcels. Pinnacle began construction this year on a midrise apartment project on 100th Avenue Northeast — the most modest part of its grand two-step plan.

Since 2019, the city has been considering what it calls Pinnacle South (replacing the QFC-anchored Bellevue Village) and Pinnacle North, north of Northeast 10th Street. If realized, the whole 11-acre project could yield around 3,500 residential units (perhaps both condos and rentals), plus parking and commercial space. The phasing, after the current midrise project is done, is evidently to be north to south.

Prior to the Labor Day weekend, the city issued a SEPA determination of non-significance for Pinnacle North, at 10112 N.E. 10th St. Design review approval was also concurrently issued. The public appeal period ends on Thursday.

International firm JYOM Architects, with an office in Vancouver, B.C., is the master planner for Pinnacle, which evidently intends to act as its own builder — as is now the case now with the 101-unit west satellite building on 100th.

Pinnacle has requested, and the city has granted, a 10-year extension for its north master development plan. That's to have six buildings ranging from 14 to 26 stories, 1,784 underground parking stalls and about 95,303 square feet of retail/commercial space, including a grocery store.

Of the 1,613 residential units, 85 would be affordable to households earning up to 80% of area median income. The north site spans about 4.5 acres. Within that expanse, phasing would start in the middle of the block, then proceed east to 102th Avenue Northeast. With the new MDP lasting until 2035, construction might thus continue through the end of that decade.

Numbers are ever in flux, since planning began; and numbers will inevitably shift even during construction. For Pinnacle South, on about 6 acres, eight more buildings could add 2,114 units, 88,267 square feet of retail/commercial space and 2,223 underground parking stalls. No timeline is offered there, and the MDP hasn't yet been issued.

Pinnacle still doesn't list the Bellevue project on its website. JYOM sizes the entire project at some 6.2 million square feet, including open space, retail and parking.

The Pinnacle team has thus far included Pacific Coast Land Surveys; EA Engineering, SEPA consultant; Ellumus, landscape architect; PanGeo, geotechnical engineer; Insight Engineering, civil; SLR International, environmental consultant; and Citibank, which loaned about half the land acquisition cost.