While Bellevue has grown from forest and farms to a bourgeoning community, it still cherishes and celebrates green spaces with 2,700 acres of parks, 8,700 feet of waterfront, and even two blueberry farms.

Discover the collision site of Bellevue’s past and present each time you venture out of your apartment to experience nearby adventures.

Bellevue boasts a Silver-Level in walk-friendly communities, as rated by the national program Walk Friendly Communities. Their rating celebrated Bellevue’s pedestrian-centric policies for city planning and engineers who maintain safer crosswalks and intersections. When it’s too far to walk, shorten the trip to nearby city excitement with easily accessible transit.

Bellevue’s ancestry is long, rich, and inextricably tangled with Mercer Island, WA. First settled in 1863, Bellevue wasn’t incorporated as a city until 1953. Before 1900, fruit orchards, berry bushes, and vegetable patches made Bellevue the produce provider for our growing neighbor, Seattle. Strawberries continue to be our favorite fruit, celebrated in the long-running Strawberry Festival since 1925. The first resident who lived on the property that is now Surrey on Main lived in a wooden, two-room cabin on our site and worked at Pacific Fruit and Produce Co. for 17 years before later becoming the owner.

In 1940, the Mercer Island Floating Bridge triggered our boom. For several decades, housing and commerce grew with this new connection until Bellevue blossomed into a business hub. Our building, as we know it, was built during this growth spurt.

Our legacy of growth wasn’t left behind us, but ahead. Surrey on Main embodies the echoes of resting in a little cabin but in the midst of busy, modern Bellevue. Rest here, and then continue to make history.