Amazon leases another Bellevue office tower as it makes room for planned 25k employees in city March 9, 2021 at 8:52 am A rendering of The Artise office tower from N.E. 8th Street and 106th Avenue N.E. in Bellevue, Wash. (Motiv Studio Image) Amazon is making room for some of the 25,000 employees it plans to add in Bellevue, Wash., announcing Tuesday that it has signed a lease to occupy a 600,000-square-foot office building called The Artise which is under development in the city east of Seattle. Scheduled to open in 2024, the 25-story glass tower by Schnitzer West and architects NBBJ is at the corner of N.E. 8th Street and 106th Avenue N.E.