Nobu — the global luxury brand co-founded by actor Robert De Niro and chef Nobu Matsuhisa — is coming to downtown Bellevue. Nobu will rebrand the two residential towers at Avenue Bellevue as Nobu Residences, marking the brand’s first residential opening in the United States, and follow it with a 10,000-square-foot Nobu restaurant, the first in the Pacific Northwest, which is slated to open in 2027.
For a development that has spent years searching for the right anchor, it’s a marquee win. Shawn Katz, president of Silverstein Capital Partners and the executive overseeing Avenue Bellevue for owner Silverstein Properties, called landing Nobu a “game changer.”
According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, which first reported the deal, Nobu will put its name on both of Avenue Bellevue’s residential towers, with Bellevue becoming the site of Nobu’s first U.S. residential opening, ahead of towers the company is developing in Miami and Orlando. Silverstein has entered a “business agreement” with Nobu but did not disclose financial details…