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W Bellevue
Bellevue, Washington, United States · W Hotels · Core Luxury
W Bellevue occupies the top floors of a 42-story Lincoln Square tower, its 245 rooms looking across Lake Washington to the Seattle skyline in an urban-to-urban panorama. NBBJ designed the interiors around a weekender lake house concept, with warm woods and leather in place of the W brand's usual glass and chrome, and chef Jason Wilson runs The Lakehouse and the hidden speakeasy Civility and Unrest.
- 245 rooms
- Opened 2017
- Neighborhood: Downtown Bellevue
- Rooms from 368 sq ft (34 m²)
- Architect: NBBJ
About W Bellevue
- Wilson also runs Civility and Unrest, a hidden speakeasy bar inside the hotel serving vintage spirits and small bites that quickly became a local gathering spot.
- The hotel sits inside Lincoln Square South, built as downtown Bellevue transformed from a modest tech-worker suburb into an urban center in its own right as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google expanded across the Eastside.
History
W Bellevue opened in 2017 inside Lincoln Square South, the second phase of the Lincoln Square development that has anchored downtown Bellevue's transformation into one of the Pacific Northwest's most significant urban centers. The building, designed by NBBJ, the Seattle-based architectural firm whose work has shaped the region's institutional and commercial landscape for decades, rises as part of the dense mixed-use corridor at 10455 NE 5th Place that connects the Bellevue Collection of retail and the arts to the city's central business district. The hotel's 245 rooms look across Lake Washington toward Seattle's skyline to the west, a panorama that frames one of the most dramatic urban geography relationships in American city planning.
Bellevue itself spent most of the twentieth century as a suburb defined by residential sprawl, its downtown a modest collection of mid-rise buildings serving the technology companies that had chosen the Eastside for its combination of land availability, educated workforce, and relative affordability compared to Seattle. The growth of Microsoft in nearby Redmond, followed by the subsequent expansion of Amazon, Google, and a constellation of technology companies across the Eastside, transformed Bellevue's downtown into a genuine urban center during the 1990s and 2000s, and Lincoln Square's development reflected the city's growing ambition for the kind of mixed-use urban density that had previously been associated only with Seattle across the water.
NBBJ brought the W's signature design language, bold public spaces, dramatically lit lobbies, contemporary art throughout, into a tower whose Lake Washington views became the hotel's most powerful selling point. The interiors were conceived around a "weekender lake house" concept that acknowledged the Pacific Northwest landscape without surrendering urban sophistication: warm woods, leather, natural materials drawn from the region's geography, deployed with the kind of knowing design confidence the W brand demands.
The Lakehouse restaurant, helmed by celebrated Pacific Northwest chef Jason Wilson, brought serious culinary ambition to a hotel dining program, while Civility and Unrest, the hotel's speakeasy bar, also under Wilson's direction, offered vintage spirits and small bites in an intimate setting that quickly became a Bellevue gathering place. The Living Room Bar and The Porch extended the hotel's social footprint into the Lincoln Square plaza, connecting the W to the neighborhood's pedestrian life. For a city that had spent decades aspiring to metropolitan status, W Bellevue arrived as confirmation that it had arrived.
The setting
In Lincoln Square South at 10455 NE 5th Place, downtown Bellevue. Lake Washington is the view west to Seattle.
Restaurants and bars
- The Lakehouse — Restaurant · Pacific Northwest · Chef Jason Wilson
- Living Room Bar & The Porch — Bar
- Civility & Unrest — Restaurant · Chef Jason Wilson
- In-Room Dining — Room service
Amenities
- 245 guest rooms and 25 suites
- FIT® fitness studio
- 24-hour in-room dining
- Pet-friendly policy
- W Insider concierge-style local guidance
- Living Room Bar & The Porch
- Civility & Unrest speakeasy
- Green Key Eco-Rating Program certified
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
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