BelRed Station

The station consists of two 400’ platforms and features passenger ticketing, waiting and entrance areas, canopies, and a surface park and ride.

BelRed Station, designed to facilitate future growth within the Bel-Red corridor, is strategically located adjacent to the City of Bellevue as a transit-oriented urban community. The station helps support a walkable mixed-use neighborhood.

Sound Transit’s need to foster community engagement and partnerships was a key goal to ensure its projects align with community priorities and aspirations. Based on community feedback, the Corten-steel enclosures of the initial design proposal were revised to express a more naturalistic tone and handmade quality, echoing a waterway restoration project at nearby Goff Creek and the City of Bellevue’s desire for this station to be an anchor of the potential Arts District. Tiscareno’s solution was to redesign the entry experience to use pre-cast, colored concrete panels inset with varying river rock, making the entry stations resemble a dry creek bed. Polycarbonate lenses were used to cover voids cast into the panels and provide additional visual interest as if light were reflecting from the water.