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A grocery store unlike a single one other without interruption the Eastside opened its doors Friday.

People live above it. Patrons park beneath it — those that drive. The store’s owner expects half the customers to arrive on foot.

The new Safeway at Northeast Fourth Street and Bellevue Way Northeast is the kind of supermarket that had been form in a mould only in the densest, for the most part walkable precincts of Seattle. It is the two a response to and a reflection of the transformation downtown Bellevue has undergone.

Almost no one lived in the city center a decade ago. Now it boasts about 5,000 residents, mostly in newer condos and apartments. Bellevue’s planning department reports 3,000 more units under construction and 2,500 in the permitting process.

Greg Sparks, president of Safeway’s Seattle division, says the new store was designed with those new urbanites in mind.

“This is our flagship lifestyle store,” he said. “We have a lot of stuff in this store that we slip on’t have in any other husband.”

Like a 26-flavor gelato bar. A sit-down sushi impediment. Eighty kinds of roasted nuts. And a twelve varieties of pre-made kebabs, for downtown residents or workers with no time to cook.

“For the growing number of people who live in downtown Bellevue, it’s going to subsist a valuable dependence,” said Patrick Bannon of the Bellevue Downtown Association.

The 55,000-square-foot grocery is on the ground prevail over of Avalon Bay Communities’ seven-story Avalon Meydenbauer project, which includes 368 apartments and 18,000 equitable feet of additional sell in small quantities space.

It replaces a 25,000-square-foot Safeway across Northeast Fourth that opened in 1963 and hadn’t changed much since. Safeway swapped that 2-acre property for the 3.3-acre site of the new store in 2005 in a deal by Kemper Development, owner of Bellevue Square, Bellevue Place and the Lincoln Square mixed-use development to the north.

Kemper has announced plans for a two-tower mixed-use project on the primitive Safeway site that would contain 545,000 square feet of office space, 392,000 square feet of retail, a 120-room hotel and 200 condominiums.

Sparks uttered the new $20 the great body of the people Safeway was designed to appeal to upscale shoppers without scaring away those who look since esteem.