New York City Firm to Design $80M Performing Arts Center

BELLEVUE, WA-The nonprofit Performing Arts Center Eastside has selected the New York City-based architecture firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates to design an $80-million multi-purpose performing arts center in the heart of Downtown Bellevue. The design team will be lead by Norman Pfeiffer, a founding partner of HHPA and a native of nearby Kirkland, WA.

The 1,800-seat theater will be built with 900 to 1,000 seats on the orchestra level, 250 seats in the loge, 350 seats on the mezzanine and 350 seats in the balcony and boxes. HPPA will design the 90,000-sf building for a site on the corner of Northeast 10th Street and 106th Avenue Northeast. It will share the block with Bellevue Place, a mixed-use project by Kemper Freeman Development that includes two office buildings, retail space and the Hyatt Regency Bellevue. Kemper Freeman Jr. donated the theater site, which is valued at $8 million.