Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washingtonfrom Seattle. As the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area,

Bellevue has variously been characterized as an edge city, aboomburb, or satellite city. The city had a population of 122,363 at the 2010 census.

downtown Bellevue underwent rapid change, with many high rise projects under construction, and was relatively unaffected by the economic downturn.

The downtown area is currently the second largest city center in Washington state with 1,300 businesses, 45,000 employees and 10,200 residents.

Seattle  is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States and the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 704,352 residents as of 2016,

Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America.