Redmond Town Center's 2026 So Far: What Opened, What's Still "Coming Soon," and What the Master Plan Hasn't Changed Yet

A year ago this month, Redmond City Council approved a five-phase plan to rebuild Redmond Town Center with buildings up to 12 stories. Since then, nothing at the center has been torn down. The changes have all happened inside storefronts that already existed: a dumpling counter, an escape room, a counseling office, and an IKEA that works by appointment.

So for now, the center keeps refilling its current spaces with smaller, specialized tenants, and the redevelopment hasn't started. Construction can't start until the owner files more applications, and the first one comes with a public comment period of its own. If you shop, eat or run errands on 166th Avenue NE, this season looks like the old center with some new names on the doors.

Four new names that are actually open

All of these are listed in the center's own directory and have regular hours.

Supreme Dumplings is a small chain, and Redmond is one of its newer locations. The Infatuation's Seattle openings guide lists it under July. It took a while to get here. In January, MyNorthwest reported it was slated for spring.

The IKEA is the most unusual of the four. The Seattle Times described it as a "plan and order point with pick-up" of about 2,730 square feet. That's a small fraction of a regular IKEA store. Anyone can browse its showroom for ideas. Planning and buying work by appointment, with one-on-one consultations and pickup for orders. 425 Magazine reported the grand opening date as Feb. 11. IKEA's store page lists current hours and appointment booking.

4 Dreams Escape got a "now open" post on the center's blog in May. Blooming Leaf Counseling held an open house and ribbon cutting on Sept. 17.

These are four very different businesses. The planning studio, the escape room and the counseling office all sell an appointment or an experience rather than goods off a shelf, and only the dumpling counter is traditional retail. None of them needed a new building.

Three names still waiting on a door

The second group appeared in the same January news cycle. As of late October, none of them shows up as an open tenant.

• Te-Hand Roll Bar. MyNorthwest reported in January that the owners of Bellevue's Kuro Sushi planned a hand-roll and omakase bar in a 1,487-square-foot space Asher Goods used to occupy, aiming to open by September 2026. It isn't in the center's current restaurant directory.
• ComeBuyTea. The same MyNorthwest report said it was slated for spring 2026. The center's map doesn't list it.
• DaMing. The center's restaurant directory marks it "Coming Soon!" in suite F120, with no cuisine or opening date listed.

In January the same coverage said the former Claire's and Sunglass Hut spaces were available. That gives you a feel for how this year has gone. Tenants come and go one storefront at a time, and announced dates are targets.

Two blocks away, downtown shows the same pattern. Yukon Standup Steak House, a fast-casual American Wagyu steak spot at 16421 Cleveland Street, Suite C, was announced for September. Its website now says it opened Oct. 19, 2026, and it takes orders online. It arrived about a month after its target. For the restaurants above, a center directory listing with posted hours is a better sign that the doors are open than any season named in a press story.

The plan approved a year ago, phase by phase

Fairbourne Properties manages Redmond Town Center. Fairbourne and Harbert Management bought the retail portion in 2019. Redmond adopted Ordinance 3230 on Oct. 21, 2025, approving the company's master planned development and development agreement. The plan has five phases, and the city report says they "may be developed in any order."

1. Phase 1 adds two stories to the existing garage at NE 73rd Way and 164th Avenue NE, for about 316 new spaces. Those spaces replace surface parking that later phases build on.
2. Phase 2 puts two 12-story buildings on the surface lot just south of the shopping center. The applicant will pick one of two approved options before applying for site plan approval. One option is two residential buildings with about 504 units. The other is one residential building with about 252 units plus an office building with about 245,530 square feet.
3. Phase 3 demolishes the BJ's Restaurant building at 7211 166th Ave NE and replaces it with an 8-story mixed-use building at the northwest corner of Bear Creek Parkway and 166th Avenue NE. It would have about 136 units and ground-floor commercial space.
4. Phase 4 partially demolishes the commercial spaces at the northwest corner of the shopping center garage and builds a 7-story mixed-use building with about 148 units and 16,070 square feet of commercial space.
5. Phase 5 does the same at the garage's northeast corner, with about 140 units and 14,800 square feet of commercial space.

The numbers are labels, not a schedule, so a garage corner could come before the parking deck. BJ's is still open. Its building appears in the plan as a future phase.

The step that sets the timing is spelled out in the city's staff response. "A subsequent Site Plan Entitlement (SPE) application will be required prior to commencement of any construction," it reads, "at which time an additional Notice of Application and public comment period will be provided prior to SPE approval." After that, the city requires separate Site Plan Entitlement and Building Permits for each phase. The Council record lists no construction start or finish dates.

So the master plan lists what can be built. It doesn't say when. The first sign that a phase is actually moving will be a public notice inviting comment. Until that notice appears, the new tenants above are moving into the same center you've been using all along.

The center's calendar through early January

Halloween is the only date on the center's own calendar so far. Trick or Treat runs Saturday, Oct. 31, from 4 to 6 p.m. As of this week, it's the only upcoming event on the Redmond Town Center events page. The center hasn't posted holiday dates for 2026.

The city's light festival sits right next door. According to an Arts and Culture Commission agenda, Redmond Lights art goes up Friday, Dec. 4, 2026, and stays through Jan. 4, 2027. The kickoff is Saturday, Dec. 5, from 4 to 8 p.m. The commission approved art calls for Downtown Park and Esterra Park, plus a video-art call for Downtown Park's Buoyant Pavilion. This is the festival's second year at Esterra Park. The city's November 2025 announcement called the Esterra expansion a first.

In 2024, the kickoff ran along the Redmond Central Connector to Redmond Town Center, and the 2025 announcement described the same route. The city hasn't published the 2026 route or artist list yet. Once it does, you'll know whether the luminary walk ends at the center again. And if you want dumplings after an evening at Downtown Park, Supreme Dumplings is open now at 7325 166th Ave NE.

If you own a home near Redmond Town Center and want to know how the approved phases might matter for your property over time, I'm happy to go through the plan with you. I keep track of each public notice as it's filed. Tom Covello offers a free home valuation and consultation for homes near the center or anywhere in Redmond.