606Onni 606 · Bellevue

Location & getting around

The western edge of Downtown Bellevue.

The block sits in the heart of Downtown Bellevue, a few minutes' walk from the region's densest cluster of shops, offices and — as of 2026 — light rail.

The block

How the block connects to Downtown Bellevue

  1. 606 106th Ave NE

    The roughly four-acre superblock spans 106th Ave NE between the NE 6th Street Grand Connection and NE 8th Street, on the western edge of the downtown core.

  2. Bellevue Collection

    Bellevue Square, Lincoln Square and the rest of the Bellevue Collection — the Eastside's premier shopping and dining destination — are a short walk west.

  3. The Grand Connection

    The project dedicates a 30-foot-wide segment of Bellevue's Grand Connection, the landscaped pedestrian spine knitting downtown to the waterfront and Wilburton across I-405.

  4. I-405 & SR 520

    Direct freeway access puts Seattle, Redmond and the wider Eastside within easy reach by car.

Onni 606 public-realm and access schematicNorth is up. 106th Avenue runs along the west side of the block, NE 8th Street along the north and the Grand Connection along the south. Numbered markers correspond to the text list following the diagram. The Bellevue Collection is west of the block and the 2 Line station is east.NE 8TH STNE 6TH ST106TH AVE NETOWER 3 / PODIUMTOWER 1TOWER 2GRAND CONNECTION / COMPASS PLAZA EDGEPUBLIC OPEN SPACENORTH PLAZA / CONNECTORARRIVALSHARED SERVICE LANE010203040506BELLEVUE COLLECTION · WEST2 LINE STATION · EAST
Public realm / walking routeVehicle accessShared service route

  1. Grand Connection edge

    The project rebuilds the southern edge beside NE 6th Street and enlarges Compass Plaza with paths, planting, furnishings and retail spill-out space.

  2. Major Public Open Space

    The southwest plaza is roughly 15,000 square feet in the city staff report; landscape-project material describes about 17,000 square feet. Plans include a splash feature and public art.

  3. North plaza and midblock connector

    A north pedestrian plaza and required east–west connector lead toward the neighboring Symetra public-space network and public-facing food and retail uses. The approval requires an access agreement; its text also refers to posted operating hours, so the recorded agreement will control the precise access terms.

  4. Signalized 106th Avenue access

    The central/southern project access forms a new signalized, offset intersection with the PACCAR driveway and leads toward an off-street arrival and turnaround area. A required public-access easement governs ingress and egress; it does not turn the arrival court into civic open space.

  5. Two right-in/right-out accesses

    The north driveway on 106th Avenue and the NE 8th Street access are shared with the development to the north and remain right-in/right-out only. The approval also requires public-access easements along the shared internal roadways.

  6. East service lane

    Loading and waste use a partially covered open-air lane along the east edge, shared with the neighboring Symetra and Key Center properties.

Access test

Public-facing does not always mean public.

Public-access open space
The 30-foot Grand Connection segment and 15,000-square-foot Major Public Open Space require legal agreements before occupancy preserving public access 24 hours a day. The east–west through-block route is also required public circulation, although the staff report pairs a 24-hour requirement with language about posted operating hours; the eventual recorded agreement is the controlling document.
Public-facing commercial space
Retail, food, restaurant and childcare frontages are intended to animate the plazas and connector. They may welcome customers when tenants are open, but a storefront or lobby is not itself the public-access open-space commitment.
Private amenities
The pools, resident and hotel podium decks, bars and dog-walking areas belong to the building amenity program. Their visual or physical connection to the wider plaza network does not establish public access.
606 and 620 106th Ave NE, Bellevue. Diagrammatic only: positions and footprints are indicative, not survey or construction drawings. Public access, curb geometry and building entries remain subject to final permitting and built conditions.Source basis: Bellevue land-use staff report ↗ · LOCI public-realm project page ↗

Transit

Getting there.

As of 2026 the block sits inside the Eastside's densest transit web — light rail to the east, the region's busiest bus hub a few blocks away, and a walkable downtown grid at the door.

2 Line light rail

Sound Transit's 2 Line opened in two stages — an Eastside-only starter line in April 2024, then the cross-lake connection to Seattle on March 28, 2026, which crosses Lake Washington on the I-90 floating bridge (a world first for light rail). The Downtown Bellevue Station runs parallel to NE 6th St between 110th and 112th Ave NE, across from the Bellevue Transit Center — a few blocks east of the site.

Bellevue Transit Center

One of the busiest bus hubs on the Eastside, linking the site to Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah and beyond.

Walk & roll

Downtown Bellevue's grid, the Grand Connection and the Bellevue Collection make the area increasingly walkable — and the development adds a through-block pedestrian path.

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