Slab removal pushes south as crews clear another band of the Onni 606 site

A fresh photograph from Wednesday afternoon shows slab removal continuing south across the Onni 606 block. The most legible day-over-day change is in the foreground: a broad intact concrete section and a small raised concrete remnant visible in the July 14 image are no longer present. In their place, the July 15 view shows exposed shallow subgrade, machine tracks and separated piles of broken concrete.

The rubble field has also been reorganized. What read Tuesday as a long, comparatively continuous band of fractured slab now appears in several more distinct stockpiles, including a large central row and another pile nearer the south edge. That pattern is consistent with crews breaking the slab, sorting the pieces and clearing the newly exposed ground. The images do not establish how much material left the site or the volume removed.

Four tracked excavators are visible across Wednesday's frame, along with a wheel loader and support vehicles. The excavator count is broadly unchanged from Tuesday's wider view; the meaningful difference is where the machines have worked and the amount of hard surface that remains. Different sunlight and a slightly wider frame prevent a precise area calculation, but the disappearance of the foreground slab provides a fixed visual reference.

This is still surface demolition and early earthwork, not the start of the deep garage excavation. The July 15 photograph shows no perimeter shoring wall and no block-wide cut. Bellevue's live ledger still lists the mass-excavation and shoring permit, 21-134212-BV, and the below-grade structure permit, 24-104362-BB, as Pending.

A check of the parcel record found no new project-scale permit filed in the last 48 hours. The heavy-equipment fuel-cube filing added July 13 now reads Pending rather than Open, an ordinary move into review rather than an approval. The only other fresh procedural entry is the July 14 closure of a transportation review under concurrency record 26-108760-DC, which was covered in Tuesday's permit update; the record itself remains Pending.

The physical work is therefore moving faster than the critical paperwork. In roughly a day, crews removed another recognizable section of slab and pushed the break-sort-clear operation closer to the south edge, while the permits that authorize the deeper phase remained where they were.

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