Bellevue Square is the Eastside's premier shopping destination — a large indoor mall anchored by Nordstrom and Macy's, with well over 200 shops and restaurants. Nordstrom's Bellevue Square location is reportedly one of the company's top-performing stores, which tells you something about the spending power concentrated in the surrounding suburbs.
The mall draws shoppers from across the Eastside and, for anything beyond basics, from east-of-mountains communities who make the trip over the Cascades. The surrounding blocks form the retail core of downtown Bellevue, with additional upmarket shops in the adjacent Bellevue Collection development. Parking is abundant but traffic on NE 8th Street at weekends can be slow.