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Downtown Bellevue construction, live.
Early grading remains the only issued excavation phase. Bellevue documented soil export on July 28, while perimeter shoring and the below-grade structure remain unissued. Ecology's August 13 contained-in determination sets handling and reporting conditions for a specific 21,250 tons of PCE-contaminated soil; it does not approve the cleanup plan or identify the earlier export as part of that stream. The camera runs around the clock as the site moves through excavation toward vertical construction.
Live counts
Read the view
Find the streets. Name the machines.
The fixed camera compresses a four-acre block into one oblique frame. This key locates the site edges and gives shape-based cues for the equipment most likely to appear — without treating a single image as proof of a machine's exact task.
North end · NE 8th106th Ave NEEast service roadSouth / Grand Connection side- Top edge
- North end / NE 8th Street
- Left edge
- 106th Avenue NE and west driveway
- Right edge
- Shared east service road
- Bottom edge
- South end / Grand Connection side
Use silhouettes and attachments, not paint colour, to tell machines apart. Fleets change and several contractors may use similar yellow equipment.
Tracked excavator
Look for: Crawler tracks, rotating upper body and a long jointed boom ending in a bucket or attachment.
Usually: Digging, sorting or loading; a narrow breaker attachment can be used on concrete.
Dozer
Look for: Low tracked body with a broad blade spanning the front.
Usually: Pushing and grading material across a short distance.
Wheel loader
Look for: Four large rubber tires, an articulated middle joint and a wide front bucket.
Usually: Scooping and moving loose material or feeding trucks.
Water truck
Look for: Road-truck cab with a cylindrical or boxy tank body and rear spray gear.
Usually: Often used for dust suppression or surface wetting; presence alone does not prove spraying.
Drill rig
Look for: Tracked base with a tall, near-vertical mast rather than an excavator boom.
Usually: Boring can support investigation, anchors, piles or shoring; the image alone cannot identify which.
The fixed view is wide and oblique. Trees, fencing, glare, rain, shadows and adjacent buildings can hide work; a machine visible in one frame may be parked rather than operating.
Site log
What the camera is seeing.
Every 15 minutes a frame is read by a vision model that compares it with the one before — narrating what's working, what's idle, and what has changed on the block.
What you're watching
The two low-rise buildings that stood here — a single-screen movie palace and a bowling alley later converted into a bookstore — were demolished in spring 2026. The camera now looks across the cleared, graded superblock. Read the history of the block →
The next legal phase change requires the applicable shoring, full-grading and below-grade approvals. Beam-haul and pit-conveyor filings are supporting mobilization records, not proof that those gates have cleared. The early work now visible will become a four-acre dig, a multi-level podium base, and three ~600-ft towers rising into the Bellevue skyline. See the construction timeline →
Construction can also affect nearby streets and sidewalks. Check standard work hours, truck routes and access guidance →
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