Lincoln Square Developer Issued Revised Building Permits

BELLEVUE, WA-Building permits for the stalled Lincoln Square development in Downtown Bellevue expired this week before being simultaneously reissued by city planners.

The original building permits expired due to 180 days of inactivity. With the new permits, Lend Lease now has one year to restart construction of the 1.4-million-sf mixed-use project and three years to complete the $360-million endeavor, a city planning official tells GlobeSt.com.

Construction of a two-tower office, hotel and condo development began in 2000. When Lend Lease halted construction last August because of the economic downturn, company officials said the company would redesign the project to be completed in stages rather than all at once as originally planned. In October, knowing it wouldn’t likely restart construction in time, the company applied for new building permits that would have the project built in three phases rather than all at once as originally permitted.