Beaux Arts

Type: Micro-Arcology

Location: Southeat 19th Street & 107th Avenue Southeast, Beaux Arts

Description: The domed micro-arcology in Beaux Arts (also - arrogantly - known as Beaux Arts) is one of the wealthier ones in Bellevue, outranked only by the likes of Sammamish Downs. 

Located just near the shores opposite Council Island, the dome's eco-friendly design is known most prominently in the Bellevue skyline for its avant garde profile and for the Western Academy of Beaux Arts, which started originally as an artists' colony in the early 1900's.

Membership in the academy is now only available pending approval by residents of the Beaux Arts micro-arcology (or by being a resident yourself) and a great many prominent nepobabies and wealthy artists that enter the mainstream in the Metroplex come from this micro-arcology.

Evergreen Point

Type: Micro-Arcology

Location: Evergreen Point Floating Bridge

Description: Built on the water of Lake Washington at the center of the 520, Evergreen Point is a domed micro-arcology catering towards the commuting middle class that work in Downtown.

Real estate here is at a premium and there is a waitlist for any new construction or alterations made to existing structures by the Evergreen Point Association, who take security, eco-friendliness, and cutting costs without sacrificing the middle class luxuries very seriously.

Sammamish Downs

Type: Micro-Arcology

Location: Southeast 32nd Place & West Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast, West Lake Sammamish

Description: One of the wealthiest communities in the world, Sammamish Downs is a walled community which contains inside of it everything that its residents might need, including a dome the size of Evergreen Point which contains all of the Sammamish Downs recreational activities to allow for year-long participation.

The Sammamish Downs administration has purposefully planned around buildings no larger than five stories and it actively cordoned off its airspace after making a deal with the Bellevue government so that only medical personnel (such as DogWagon and CrashCart) can legally enter its airspace unless accompanied by a resident with resident approval.

Somerset-Eastgate

Type: Micro-Arcology

Location: Southeast 42nd Street, Eastgate

Description: The development of the Somerset-Eastgate Micro-Arcology began in the early 2060's, finishing almost a half decade later. It is a walled community divided up into 13 districts, two subdivisions, and over 3,500 homes. It has two security contracts, one with Petrovski Security for all internal matters and with Knight Errant for all external (usually aerial and drone-related) matters.

Somerset-Eastgate's claim to fame (and why so many people live there) are the Somerset-Eastgate Recreation Club and their schools, both of which are only available to residents. Graduates of the Somerset-Eastgate schools usually end up going to in-demand universities in Bellevue and multiple Olymic gold medalist swimmers and championship tennis players come from Somerset-Eastgate and were members in the recreation club.

Factoria

Type: Micro-Arcology

Location: Factoria Boulevard Southeast, Factoria

Description: The Factoria micro-arcology is a large building that spans two city blocks. Entirely closed-off with only four entrances on-foot (with another four available only via xGuide to Factoria residents), the first eight floors of the micro-arcology consist of commercial busineses that seek to rival and supplant the nearby Marketplace at Factoria. They haven't succeeded yet, owing mostly to the cold shoulder that the micro-arcology's residents levee towards outsiders.

The remaining floors consist of a small fire department, security offices, an elementary school (with pre-elementary program) and two floors dedicated solely to micro-arcology administration.

Westlake

Type: Micro-Arcology

Location: Enati Drive & Southeast 30th Street, Beaux Arts

Description: Seeking to evoke the classic easy-going vibe of Pacific Northwest apartment blocks and smaller houses right on the shore, the Westlake micro-arcology is actually mostly built on the water, with the majority of houses actually located on the micro-arcology's pier infrastructure with their own adjoining boat slips.

Unlike most micro-arcologies, it's more of a walled-off community than anything else but the walls are high, well surveilled, and patrolled frequently to keep out intruders.

Bellevue Hilton

Type: Hotel

Rating: ★★★★

Prices: ¥475

Location: 112th Avenue Northeast, Clyde Hill

Description: Your second-best choice on Bellevue’s “hotel row” is this luxury-class Hilton, featuring three restaurants and free use of a local health club (the Max Gym) across the street.

Bellevue Sleep & Eat

Type: Hotel

Rating: ★★

Prices: ¥75

Location: 381 West Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast, Phantom Lake

Description: A cheap coffin hotel set up in a previously abandoned warehouse, with bonus points for the creative use of cargo containers.

The Phantom Lake Ring runs it and the residents are among the truly down-and-out and desperate but not inclined to ask questions. Keep the door locked and a weapon handy.

The “& Eat” portion of the name comes from the fact that ghouls sometimes haunt the place, looking for strays.

Essex House

Type: Hotel

Rating: ★★★★★

Prices: ¥1,000

Location: 116th Avenue Northeast & Northeast 34th Street, Bridle Trails

Description: This five-star luxury hotel was mostly modeled after the Essex Houses of Miami and New York, with a focus on the big red sign and art deco vibes.

With over 600 rooms, 120 suites, and 200 condominium residences its one of the largest mixed-use hotels in the Metroplex.

The convention hall is smaller than some but it has a habit of hosting the nova wealthy and more than makes up for its quantity with one of the best-rated penthouses suites in the Metroplex and a world-class steakhouse - Navarro - which requires a reservation made at least a week in advance to guarantee a table.

Greenwoods Inn

Type: Hotel

Rating: ★★★★

Prices: ¥350

Location: 116th Avenue Northeast, Downtown Bellevue

Description: A close third behind the Bellevue Hilton, the Greenwoods Inn is a bit more limited in terms of its view, atmosphere, and dining choices, but makes up for it in terms of service and is still an excellent choice of places to stay.

La Roca Extended Stay

Type: Hotel

Rating: ★★★

Prices: ¥175

Location: Northeast 48th Street, Newcastle

Description: This three-star chain of hotels is dotted around Bellevue from north to south, although it does happen to stay clear of southern Bellevue (the worst part of it) as well as the northeastern Bellevue (the best part of it) and it seems geared more towards traveling families than anything else.

It doesn't offer anything exceptional beyond complementary breakfast and a pretty good turndown service but its head-and-shoulders above what you'd find in any other mid-tier chain which is why its remains popular.

Agostino's

Type: Italian Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥¥

Location: 10th Avenue & 6th Street, Kirkland

Description: Frequented by the who's who of the mob, Agostino's is the traditional Italian family restaurant with the red-and-white checkered cloth covering cozy tables and booths.

The food itself is what you'd expect: made from scratch, made with skill, and made with fresh, quality ingredients.

Ascension

Type: Japanese Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥¥¥

Location: Southeast 45th Place, Eastgate

Description: Located on the top of a skyraker that has a great view of Lake Washington, Ascension promises solid atmosphere and world-class sushi prepared by a cast of celebrity sushi chefs who rotate out to train new blood in Neo-Tokyo and scout out for Ascension's staff.

Once it hits the summer months, Ascension is reservation only.

Bahn Mi Express

Type: Vietnamese Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥

Location: Northeast 155th Street & 87th Place Northeast, Inglewood

Description: While not the best vietnamese restaurant in the metroplex, it does happen to be the best in Bellevue.

After Kat Berg chose to eat here during filming one of the Blackstone films it exploded in popularity.

Do yourself a favor and order take-out during lunch and dinner because the wait times can creep up on the far end of an hour.

Big Belly Bistro

Type: Lebanese Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥

Location: Southeast 66th Street & Coal Creek Parkway Southeast, Newcastle

Description: Owned and operated by a second generation immigrant family of Lebanese origins, Big Belly Bistro is well-known for its moderate price, hefty portions, and multitudes of add-ons that the waitresses and owner come by to try and hoise upon you.

It also hosts an illegal cuisine night for double the normal price of its dishes but is strictly offered to vetted regular customers.

Bellevue Crab House

Type: Seafood Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥¥¥

Location: 108th Avenue Northeast, Clyde Hill

Description: A first-class seafood restaurant in the heart of Bellevue’s business district.

Frequent lunch location of business VIPs. Try the Dungeness crab legs, the house specialty, because they go quickly thanks to the multitudes of food blogs that sing their praises.

Ezell's Southern Accent

Type: Southern Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥

Location: 100th Avenue Northeast & 116th Place Northeast, Kirkland

Description: Down-home family cooking at this cozy restaurant and bar. 

The southern fried chicken and the biscuits with sausage gravy are particularly tasty.

Ezell’s proudly displays the Confederate States flag, and rumor has it his CS sympathies run even deeper, up to and including cooperation with intelligence operatives from south of the Mason Dixon.

Ivory Anchor

Type: Seafood Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥¥¥

Location: Southeast 34th Street & 110th Avenue Southeast, Beaux Arts

Description: The hottest ticket in Bellevue with a year-long waiting list and the go-to place for actors, government officials, and megacorporate high-end executives.

Located right on the water and in a cozy, modern building that speaks to the sort of client that should be eating at Ivory Anchor, the dazzling outside seating is protected by an entire suite of anti-drone and anti-surveillance tech to ensure that the metroplex's 1% can eat and drink in peace.

Kobena

Type: West African Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥

Location: 119th Avenue Southeast & Southeast 52nd Street, Newport

Description: Moderately priced West African cuisine in a cramped but cozy Newport basement restaurant, Kobena ends up on quite a few top 10 lists due to authenticity alone.

Kobena is also rumored to belong to Fanti smuggling rings out of Asamondo.

The Mogul

Type: Indian Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥

Location: Northeast 8th St. & 108th Avenue, Downtown Bellevue

Description: The best Indian restaurant in Bellevue and one of the best in the metroplex, The Mogul offers a wide menu for regional Indian cuisines. 

Their lunch buffet has a dizzying range of choices and the Tandoori chicken comes highly recommended. 

As an additional bonus, owner Hoshiar Pahal is a skilled magician who sometimes treats customers to a magical illusion show.

The Open Table

Type: American Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥

Location: 86th Avenue Northeast & 85th Place Northeast, Juanita

Description: Sitting in a building which was once, unmistakably, an Applebee's, The Open Table's interior belies its cheap outer visage thanks to a plethora of cozy, yet spacious booths where the dividers of which are covered in real vines.

The trellis-like dividers provide pleasant sights and scents but they aren't just good decor: The Open Table is popular amongst those in the shadows because of the privacy that each booth is afforded.

The Silver Fools

Type: German Restaurant

Cost: ¥¥

Location: Market St. & 14th Avenue NW, Kirkland

Description: This dim, cavernous eatery serves German-style vegetarian and soy foods and excellent beer, chosen from a wide selection of local microbrews - many argue the best micro-brews in the sprawl.

Angel Express

Type: Nightclub

Location: 8th Street Northeast & Bellevue Way, Bellevue Square

Description: The first of the two nightclubs in the Bellevue Square Mall, Angel Express is exactly what you'd expect of a Bellevue nightclub: its loud, ostentatious, built for the wealthy and filled to the brim with all sorts of drugs and chemical experiences.

The Yakuza largely controls the trade in and around the club, although they are willing to overlook a little dealing on the side, so long as it doesn’t cut into their profit margins.

Bellevue Pour House

Type: Tavern

Location: Northeast 40th Street & 148th Avenue Northeast,

Description: If you like your culture more rough-and-tumble, visit the Bellevue Pour House, a local tavern that serves a full range of beer and liquor and features entertainment like their Friday Night Freestyle Fights, Tuesday Sloppy Soy Wrestling, and Hump Day Wet T-Shirt Contests. Not a place for children.

It’s a pit, frequented by human, ork, and troll bikers and gangers, and some of the blue-collar crowd. It puts the “ass” in “class.” So, naturally, it’s where some shadowrunners like to hang, especially if they enjoy a good bar brawl (watching, starting, or being in one).

Bob's Beer Factory

Type: Bar

Location: 150th Avenue Northeast & 51st Street Northeast, Bridle Trails

Description: At one point this bar was a front for an unlicensed doctor by the name of Carl Phang. A lot of people died under his care and had their bodies dumped in Lake Sammamish, if not chopped up and sold on the black market. Phang was arrested 38 times over ten years before disappeared entirely in the early 2060's.

Currently, Bob's Beer Factory is the site of a sub-standard bar which can't owe a lot to atmosphere thanks to the sludge-like vibes that Carl Phang's backroom surgeries have imprinted onto this place but its still a favorite for a lot of microbrew enthusiasts simply because the new owners brew some of the best and balance out the goosebumps with half-decent happy hours for the working stiffs who are on their way back home from their Bellevue service jobs.

Dragon's Roar

Type: Nightclub

Location: 8th Street Northeast & Bellevue Way, Bellevue Square

Description: The second of the two nightclubs located in the Bellevue Square Mall, Dragon's Roar is a visually themed club based off of Chinese mythology that's clearly trying to ape the vibes of Dante's Inferno without having nearly as much space.

The differences between the two are vast but beyond the visual, Dragon's Roar isn't trying to be anything but itself, offering reasonably priced drinks for the area as well as a multitude of events including a month-long Pride bonanza which draws in a good amount of people from outside the Belle.

Powerline

Type: Sex Club

Location: Market Street & 17th Avenue

Description: Once considered a curiosity, Powerline is starting to feel like the flagship of Bellevue’s “anything goes” attitude. Powerline is the sprawl’s premier sex club. It is a multi-level affair built like the unrated version of Dante’s Inferno. There is definitely something for everyone here. The ground floor is for those who prefer ordinary sex and titillation. 

Climb to level two, and you’ll encounter cosplayers. The furries are the level above that. The top floors are divided by partner gender preferences: same, single, bi, pan, whatever. As expected, the basement levels are filled with various BDSM chambers equipped with AR projectors that can be modified to match your specific fantasy.

Naturally, Powerline sees plenty of the hard-core party crowd, and you can get just about any chemical or digital enhancers you want.

That striking old troll in the corner of the top floor surrounded by a sea of pretty young boys is called Sweet William. Look past the playboy appearance, and you’ll find he’s one of the best fixers in the Belle.

The Hole

Type: Bar

Location: 119th Avenue Southeast & 120th Place Southeast, May Creek

Description: In a place like Bellevue, you’re sure to find somewhere to pretend to be whatever it is you want to be. The Hole is where rich kids pretend to be runners, a slum place where people like to go to pretend to be hard. The posers are what makes this place noteworthy. 

Most of the clientele are the underaged, pop-up gangers who either wind up as part of the Nova Rich or trading in their leather for a business suit. As a result, it winds up being an excellent place to groom future contacts or to get inside info from the children of the corporation you are targeting.

The best fence in Bellevue is a woman named Cherry Vale. She works out of this club, mostly because of the number of rich kids who bring their parents’ jewels to trade for cash.

The Midnight Club

Type: Nightclub

Location: 109th Place Northeast & Northeast 26th Place, Downtown Bellevue

Description: It wouldn’t be ultra-rich without a private club geared toward the people who make more money in an hour than most of us pull together in a year.

Those people are members of the Midnight Club. I don’t know what it’s like inside. From the outside, it is a nondescript four-story building in the heart of the downtown area covered in IR reflective glass. 

Centurion Security officers guard the front entrance kitted up in heavy security armor.

However, the only people going in and out that way are the workers. Anyone who matters arrives by private limo and is escorted in through the basement garage.

Supernova

Type: Nightclub

Location: 92nd Avenue Northeast & Northeast 37th Place, Yarrow Point

Description: Bellevue debutantes refer to the local club circuit as “the North Tour,” conjuring up images of the jet-setting Grand Tour that their parents (and eventually they themselves) participate in during the course of the year. Being on that circuit brings hundreds of thousands of nuyen to clubs each season.

Supernova password-entry bar is a fixture on the “north tour,” thanks to the unique and exotic drinks their bartenders cook up.

The décor changes season by season to match the theme of the tour. Though the ownership of the club never appears, whoever is running the place takes a mixture of advice from the bigwigs of Bellevue, as they manage to respond to emerging trends without ruffling feathers.

Bellevue Art Museum

Type: Art Museum

Location: 8th Street Northeast & Bellevue Way, Downtown Bellevue

Description: After shopping at Bellevue Square, stop by the north corner of the mall and visit this three-story museum with one of the finest collections of artwork on the Pacific Coast. 

As part of Mayor Blake’s “Rebuild the Belle” campaign, the museum received a funding boost with multiple donations coming in from the wealthiest families in town. Mayor Blake personally kicked in a million nuyen and an original Banksy. From that point, it became a competitive race to the top to see who could show off more through the forum. 

At present, the museum hosts collections from different museums and private collectors around the world.

Virtual guided tours are available on your commlink for a small fee, and many of the displays are enhanced with free AR info tags.

Bellevue Downtown Park

Type: Park

Location: 10201 Northeast Fourth Street, Downtown Bellevue

Description: A useful place to meet clients as well as a downtown Bellevue staple that's almost always busy but not too busy. 

The eighty meter-wide waterfall creates enough white noise that it is impossible to eavesdrop, too. It’s also beautiful, and one of Bellevue's most iconic public areas because of how much nuyen and effort went into designing a picturesque public space.

The inspiration playground is filled with AROs and physical sculptures that kids can climb on which provide a surprising amount of visual and physical cover, too, obstructing sightlines if necessary.

Bellevue Hilton Suite No. 3

Type: Private Venue

Location: 112th Avenue Northeast, Clyde Hill

Description: Located on the rooftop of the Bellevue Hilton, Suite Number 3 was designed to provide breathtaking views and a private social retreat to the richest visitors to the Belle. 

The location commonly hosts corporate parties and city affairs, offering both indoor and outdoor spaces that can be modified to suit the needs of the event. What makes the location stand out is the security. 

The bullet-resistant glass enclosures surrounding the outdoor space make it impossible for snipers to attack from adjacent buildings.

The bar is only accessible by a single elevator and a private stairwell, both of which are keycard protected and guarded.

Enatai Beach Park

Type: Park

Location: 3519 108th Avenue Southeast, Beaux Arts

Description: The beachfront nearest to Council Island started to gain attention a few years ago when a tribe of merrow surfaced near the shore. Since that time, the beachfront has grown as a tourist destination as locals and tourists alike stand on the shores in hopes of seeing the rare sea creatures emerge. 

Enatai is next to the bridge leading to Council Island, which raises questions about whether that is what drew the sea life or if they were experimented on at Overlake and later released into the waters here.

So far, the tribe has not been communicative, nor have they attacked the beach goers who come to see them surface

The Casino At Sammamish Lake

Type: Casino

Location: 186th Avenue Northeast & Northeast 25th Street, Rosemont Beach

Description: The newest casino in the sprawl comes to us courtesy of the Salish. The Casino caters to the ultra-rich, with premium space being given to private gaming rooms and high-stakes slots and tables.

The casino was originally funded by Salish-Shidhe nuyen, but First Nations runs the place. 

It’s a prime money-laundering location for the organization masquerading as a testament to tribe and city collaboration.

The Classic Hotel and Casinos

Type: Casino

Location: 8th Street Northeast & 148th Avenue, Fox Glen

Description: The Classic is named so because each of the casino floors are themed after a well-known Las Vegas casino, recreated and ever-so-slightly re-imagined - casinos such as the Flamingo, the Luxor, Boardwalk, the Kondike, and more.

Naturally, Matrix access is limited to the hotel rooms and the classic casinos are clean of AROs and other modern gimmicks. If you want to sit down, play with actual cards, and chomp on a real (gross) cigar, you’ll find someplace to your liking. 

There are restaurants on every floor, but beyond window-dressing the menus are more-or-less the same. The only place that’s actually worth eating at is Tomorrow - on the top floor - mostly because of its views and top-shelf steak that they actually cook right next to your table.

The Gates Casino

Type: Casino

Location: 830 Southeast Shoreland Drive, Meydenbauer

Description: Seattle's oldest and most iconic of the sprawl’s many casinos hotel complexes, the Gates was built by Charles W. Gates of the Microdeck Industries dynasty. 

The game rooms host standard card games and slots alongside a wealth of AR and VR games that pay out extremely well, if you’re lucky. When you’re done losing money, you can find Aztec-Mex and American-Salish cuisine at one of the two Michelin-rated restaurants located inside the casino. The piano room in the main hall is known for its mixed drinks and Saturday night shows.

Charlie Gates used to run the shadows himself back in the 2030s, under the name “Janus.” He was an old school hacker and pulled off some real slick jobs, making obscene amounts of money from ransomware schemes and other, more standard, runs. Eventually he ran afoul of his own luck trying to hack the wrong datastore and got himself fragged circa 2045, and his son Brian W. Gates III took over the family business.

All the mechanisms he set up for laundering still work and are presently being leased to the Finnigan family for a decent cut of the nuyen - something the Finnigans are happy not to rock the boat on, because even for heavy hitters like the Finnigans, trying to strong-arm the Gates clan is generally a bad idea - the kind that becomes your last idea.

The Pink Flamingo Casino

Type: Casino

Location: Burnett Avenue North & North 33rd Street, May Creek

Description: The Pink Flamingo Casino was finished completely in 2079 after a rocky construction and several funding issues by the Pink Flamingo Group of Las Vegas who own the iconic Flamingo of Las Vegas and are filled to the brim with mafioso from the Verontesse crime family. The issue in funding was mostly due to the hostile takeover of the majority of Italian family property by NAN mafia groups but after cutting a good deal with the Koshari, the Verontesse managed to end hostilities and see an October 31st opening in 2079.

Boasting ten floors of casino, two floors of a built-in kid's entertainment center (and daycare!) and forty floors of hotel with several suites and a two VTOL landing pads, the Pink Flamingo has struggled to maintain its image as a high-class place, instead strictly inhabiting the niche as a casino built for the middle class and local families looking to engage in a "staycation" rather than the hyperwealthy.

It does boast one first-class restaurant - Ricigliani's - which has managed to make it onto top ten lists for Italian food in the Seattle Metroplex for three years in a row.

Bellevue Correctional Facility

Type: Correctional Facility

Location: May Valley Road Southeast, May Valley

Description: Known locally as “the Brickyard,” this prison has changed ownership multiple times over the last few decades: Lone Star had it until Knight Errant assumed brief control in the 2040's, then the Star got control back until 2078, and then once Seattle became a Free City, Lone Star got control back once more.

The one constant is that there are high-profile white-collar criminals kept here and they don’t escape, no matter what corp signs the paychecks. In fact, the registry only lists two prisoner escapes in the past 30 years. Part of that may have been the off-the-book deposits Lone Star’s Shadowriders are known for. The Star will occasionally hold prisoners in facilities such as these without putting them on the books and without charges until they can extract whatever information they need for them. 

Places like the Brickyard are perfect for it, because they are already set up for so-called “enhanced rehabilitation techniques,” which is military shorthand for torture. Bellevue Lone Star in particular uses experimental magical techniques for rehabilitation purposes, which makes it more likely the missing or extra people on the list were victimized by the cops.

The parole board is jointly made up of Lone Star personnel and metroplex-appointed members, and must certify all prisoner releases. Their workload is made easier by the fact that the facility’s few “success stories” don’t last long.

Bellevue District Courthouse

Type: Courthouse

Location: Bellevue Way Southeast & Main Street, Downtown Bellevue

Description: This is where local cases are heard, and during the 2070's it was the site of the infamous "interfacing" between Lone Star Security Services and Knight Errant officers, as Knight Errant had the contract for district policing and Lone Star retained control of the Bellevue Correctional Facility.

Throw in some metroplex employees and you’ve got a hotbed of legal wrangling, even if Knight Errant has let go of the city policing contract. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of cases that Knight Errant opened are still being gone through and Knight Errant's malicious compliance means that Lone Star has about five or six times the amount of paperwork that they otherwise would have if Knight Errant weren't purposefully messing with them.

Bellevue District Hall

Type: District Hall

Location: 1151 East Main Street, Rosemont Beach

Description: Home of the office of the Mayor of Bellevue and other district offices, Bellevue District Hall is a clean, modern structure, only about thirty years old.

Its security systems are a good deal newer, however. Still, they have fallen a bit behind the times and remain primarily automated.

Bellevue Square Mall

Type: Shopping Mall

Location: 8th Street Northeast & Bellevue Way, Bellevue Square

Description: One of the metroplex’s oldest shopping centers, Bellevue Square was originally built in the 1960s. 

It was extensively renovated and updated for its centennial celebration a few years ago and offers five floors of shopping, dining, and even a few nightclubs.

Beaux Retail anchors the center, and you can also find Red Star Bodyworks, Ipsissimus, and a Très Chic store. The "in crowd" is known to shop and dine here due to its close proximity to the Bellevue Art Museum.

The Body+Tech franchise in Bellevue Square has a reputation for looking the other way and not logging certain “elective” procedures, provided the fees are right. Stay away from the A Whole New You there unless you’re going for something strictly cosmetic, however.

Centurion Institute For Scientific Advancement

Type: Private University

Location: 6th Street Southeast & 112th Avenue Southeast, Surrey Downs

Description: Formerly known as NeoNET Labs, this facility was taken over by Centurion shortly after NeoNET fell out of the top ten. 

It stands out because it is not a traditional corporate research lab, instead Centurion rebranded CISA into an institution of higher learning that confers degrees through nearby University of Washington.

Centurion is playing nice, but the reality is that CISA is a recruiting lab. They look for the top scientists, tell them they are working toward the betterment of the city and their own degrees, and then offer them a fat Centurion paycheck at the end of the term. It works, too, and it's the farthest thing from illegal that there is - unlike other corps, who often trawl lists of upcoming graduates and actively kidnap them through shadow extractions.

DeGear's Electronics

Type: Tech Shop

Location: 148th Avenue Northeast & 8th Street Northeast, Fox Glen

Description: This little indie tech store is the kind of place where you can pick up a new commlink, some cheap household electronics, or any parts or accessories for those things. 

Where Arnie DeGear, the owner, really makes his money, however, is by selling under-the-counter tech, particularly salvaged and hard-to-find electronics and cyber-parts. 

He also regularly rents out the back room of the shop to whatever street-doc is willing to do outpatient installations of stuff his customers buy.

Main Place Arcade

Type: Shopping Mall

Location: 112th Avenue Southeast & Main Street, Downtown Bellevue

Description: The four-block area is filled with shops and boutiques designed to recall an older, friendlier era.” 

What that looks like on the ground is a rotating cast of shops and boutiques, as well as cafés and restaurants with clever names like SweetHome, Talisman Clothing, Greenlife, Fulcrum Electronics, Talislegger Organics, and so on. 

Each of them is a front for the larger corporations they represent. The mall itself is a corporate lab for market and concept testing. As a result, it is the most heavily surveilled location in the Belle. Someone is always watching what you do here and adding it to their data. That being said, you will always find next-generation gear here.

One other way the Arcade maintains that “bygone time” is by quietly putting out the message that metahumans aren’t welcome. Attempts by metahuman entrepreneurs to open businesses there have been blocked by red tape and bureaucratic harassment, and metahuman customers often get the cold shoulder, particularly goblins and changelings, who are usually treated like suspected criminals and constantly watched.

Night City Records

Type: Music Shop

Location: 8th Street Northeast & Bellevue Way, Bellevue Square

Description: While masquerading as a music shop, Night City Records is at the center of the local BTL trade.

The Triads are apparently responsible for importing the illegal wares, but rumors persist that some of the BTLs are produced locally at Hollywood Simsense.

Nko'o Forest Stables

Type: Stables

Location: 116th Avenue Northeast, Bridle Trails

Description: The ultra-rich Bridle Trails area of Bellevue is known for dirt horse paths that curve throughout the area and between the estates. 

Nko’o is responsible for the majority of the horses to ride those trails as well as the training it takes to do so. If you’re born above a certain income level, coming to train at Nko’o is as much a rite of passage as a Bar Mitzvah or Quinceañera. 

The stable imports horses from all over the world as well as breeding their own. Some of the breeds found here cannot be found anywhere else on the continent.

The Beaux

Type: Department Store

Location: Bellevue Way Southeast & Southeast 30th Street, Beaux Arts

Description: The Beaux is a department store that has managed to survive - albeit barely - as Mitsuhama Computer Technologies' retail foothold in Seattle. Originally owned by CATCo, when the Crash 2.0 smashed CATCo to smithereens it ended up in MCT's hands. CATCo had developed only the fashion line of Beaux Retail by 2063, so Mitsuhama had a fresh new clothing line and nowhere to put them.

Then comes in The Beaux, a department store concept exclusive to the Seattle Metroplex which CATCo had been hoping to take across North America. Only two of these department stores ever managed to be finished by them and they proved able test grounds for the type of stuff the less wealthy Bellevue resident might enjoy, especially in regards to fashion and cosmetics.

MCT has managed to keep The Beaux stores alive and this one in particular is the first location. They're known for their attentive staff and fantastic cosmetics department but also for offering many local Bellevue-made - Beaux Arts specifically - products at affordable prices for the middle class.

The Max Gym

Type: Health Club

Location: 112th Avenue Northeast, Clyde Hill

Description: Sitting across from the Bellevue Hilton, The Max Gym is known for its top-notch staff and facilities which allow for the sort of care of its members that is usually reserved for professional sports teams and people with personal trainers - a feature that the Max Gym offers.

Its also rumored to be frequented by a lot of muscle-for-hire in Bellevue and more than one bodyguard has been scouted by a wealthy tech industry dork trying to build some bulk who then instead decided to just hire someone who was good at it.

Thomas Vinters

Type: Vineyard

Location: 136th Place Northeast, Bridle Trails

Description: For a taste of wine country in Seattle, visit Thomas Vintners, the metroplex’s oldest vineyard. For more than a hundred years, the Thomas family has grown its own grapes and turned them into wines rivaling the best of California, South America, and Europe. 

The vineyards are covered with a bio-fabric dome to filter the air, making for a pleasant “outdoor” stroll as part of the tour, which also includes a tasting of several Thomas Vintners wines. 

The Thomas family is surprisingly tough for a bunch of wine snobs; they have steadfastly resisted attempts to buy their land for decades, including some pretty nasty attempts on their lives and property. Brothers Janus and Erik Thomas jointly own the property and intend to pass it along to their children and grandchildren. They’ve been quite willing to spend family money to deal with any problems themselves rather than trying to go to the police. 

Nils Thomas, the eldest grandchild, is a Magical Studies student at UW and working on ways to enhance the vineyard’s production and quality through magic, particularly cooperation with local land spirits. “try the wine” indeed!

Whole Foods

Type: Grocery Store

Location: 888 116th Avenue Northeast, Downtown Bellevue

Description: Whole Foods is a large grocery store focused on the sale of higher quality soy-based foods and organic foods, making it one of the more expensive supermarkets available in the North American region.

A secret subsidiary of Horizon, Horizon Charisma Associates markets the products of Whole Foods by means of evoking "simpler" times and "simpler" folks.  Their trideo commercials are full of cheerful, red-cheeked and healthy-looking farmer families in narrowly cut blue jeans doing field work. At the same time, most of their commercials and campaigns end up as smear campaigns against Aztechnology's food businesses.

This strategy has proven to be very successful, especially in North America, especially since it forced Stuffer Shack to recall its popular Nuke-Em burger over concerns about food additives and safety while the nearly identical Spicy Soyburger by Whole Foods was released a week later.

Cougar Mountain Hospital

Type: Hospital

Location: 18910 Southeast 69th Street, Newcastle

Description: Once the site of Black Cougar Mountain regional national park, this area was leveled and regraded in 2010 as part of an ambitious public housing project. The hospital was built to service the needs of the new community and the growing population of Seattle following the Ghost Dance War. 

However, the hospital didn’t take up all of the park’s area. A swath of public housing originally built around the hospital was razed when the surrounding area was rezoned as part of Bellevue’s green initiative. At least a dozen old buildings remain operational among the new growth wilderness surrounding the hospital. 

The hospital sits at the highest point of a patch of fresh growth woodlands, looking more like a gothic asylum than the cutting-edge medical facility it truly is. 

CMH continues to be a local leader in transplant surgery and organ replacement. While considered a public hospital, the facility does allow for private, elective surgical procedures for the right price.

Overlake Medical Research Center

Type: Hospital

Location: 116th Avenue Northeast, Downtown Bellevue

Description: The largest hospital in Bellevue, Overlake Medical Research Center specializes in diseases related to environmental pollution, conducting numerous studies and clinical trials, which have led to innovative new treatments. The KleenAir™ nanofilter for modern breathers was initially developed here.

One of Overlake’s more recent research projects has concerned the effects of environmental pollution and toxins on the Awakened, particularly mutations induced in paranormal animals. Although primarily in the data gathering stage, the aim seems to be both improved detection of potentially harmful toxins and regenerative technologies and treatments. Since the research tends to involve some dangerous critters (made more so by being toxic), Overlake is still willing to shell out some grant money for “expert assistance” in the catch and-release part of the program.

Overlake’s research goes beyond just critters: They have been researching allergic reactions in metahumans, too. They pay a pittance to down-and-out metas from the Barrens for medical testing, then dump them back on the streets once they have the data they need. This hasn’t made the hospital any friends in places like Loveland or Tarislar, let me tell you.

Centurion Tower

Type: Corporate Headquarters

Location: Bellevue Way Southeast & 16th Street Southeast, Eastgate

Description: The red marble and copper-tinted glass structure long stood as a symbol to the power of Ares in Seattle. At the height of their troubles, the company abruptly sold the office complex and retreated to their main office in Everett. 

Centurion purchased the location and made it their headquarters, consolidating the upper management teams of multiple divisions in one location. 

The roof of the building includes a VTOL landing pad, used by corporate commuters and security flights, but monitored by on-site radar and protected by a surface-to-air missile battery concealed in a turret on the roof.

The lobby hosts a small museum and AR history tour chronicling the rise of Jonathan Blake from humble beginnings to CEO.

Cavilard Research Center

Type: Research Facility

Location: 1302 118th Avenue Southeast, Downtown Bellevue

Description: This otherwise unassuming research park in Bellevue is a pretty typical example of its species: private, fenced-off grounds with a small campus, focused on the main research building.

Once considered the premier experimental research facility in the NeoNET Seattle cluster, Cavilard was bought out by MCT and billed as an informal research relationship between the corporation and the NANs. During the handover period, the location came under attack from a number of shadowrunner teams looking to extract data and prototypes. Some of those runs were successful, prompting Cavilard to upgrade its security from Knight Errant to Petrovski.

The facility is run by Dr. Jesenia Lightfoot and Cavilard remains interested in tracking down the things they lost in the handover and have repeatedly reached out to the shadows for assistance. 

Likewise, competitors are still trying to breach security in search of information on the research going on there.

Gaeatronics Headquarters

Type: Corporate Headquarters

Location: 119th West Groat Point Drive, Medina

Description: Dubbed “The Mountain” because of its revolutionary design, the Seattle headquarters of the Salish-Shidhe energy and engineering giant almost looks like a natural feature of the terrain. The massive building has terraced rooftops covered with soil and cultivated greenery, even habitats for local birds. Nine stories are above ground level and covered in earth to create the appearance of a living mound. Trees, grass, and flowers, grow on the facility, and the company recently built a children’s park at the very top to further the usable green space.

Visitors can take a walking tour through the rooftop gardens as well as see some of the facilities from the ground floor visitor’s center. The tour includes a short history of Gaeatronics and their facilities in Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula.

Of course, Gaeatronics’ “roofscaping” also serves purposes other than simply green architecture. The abundance of plant-life includes cultivated species that provide effective astral security, and some of the habitats are for Awakened guard animals, raised and trained for the environment, and penned-in by sonic fences and similar safeguards.

Microdeck Industries

Type: Corporate Headquarters

Location: Main Street & 124th Avenue Northeast, Microdeck Plaza

Description: Software publisher Microdeck has been a fixture of Bellevue for over a century, and their Bellevue campus still employs many people in the district and the rest of Seattle. The company is still owned by the wealthy Gates family, a Seattle dynasty, and you can enjoy an AR-enhanced tour of the company’s public areas with displays showing the history of Microdeck and computer- and software-development over the past century. 

Microdeck recently began billing itself as a techno-future showcase. They haven’t released any technology that isn’t just a knock-off version of what the megas produce in years. All the same, the level of physical and Matrix security bristling from the walls of the complex suggests they are in the midst of research that is going to pay off. It wouldn’t be the first time it happened to this company. 

The Microdeck campus has been renovated a dozen times over the past decade. Every year seems to bring more changes, new configurations, and added security. Presently there are three satellite buildings strategically placed around the main skyraker. Each has its own internal security force and separate lockdown procedures in case of emergency. 

All the buildings are connected to the main tower via an underground access tunnel that comes together in the subbasement of the main building. By all accounts, the people who work in these separate offshoot buildings do not communicate with each other. It’s anyone’s guess what they are doing there.

Renraku Computer Systems Seattle

Type: Corporate Headquarters

Location: 6th Street Southeast & 112th Avenue, Downtown Bellevue

Description: In the years before they made a few mistakes with AI and their Downtown arcology, Renraku's Bellevue location was known as a fairly standard corporate facility. It took up the majority of a city block, raked the sky, and was filled to the brim with research projects, white-collar board rooms and middle class offices.

When the infamous "Shutdown" happened with their arcology, they became the target of constant Matrix and meatspace runs by a half dozen now-defunct corporations like Fuchi, Novatech, and a few others.

Instead of bleeding out like a wounded animal, Renraku rallied and became aggressive. Their Bellevue facility is a borderline Zero Zone now, with SOTA matrix security that fries anyone who decides to even try and hack into their systems. The security spiders aren't any better, because they'll go immediately for the throat without issuing a warning. To a lesser extent that applies to physical security, but it often doesn't need to thanks to the Red Samurai team that lives and operates in the building - its public knowledge, too, thanks to a crew who managed to get their hoops blown up in a nearby park while making their exfil.