Timber Ridge Bellevue Signage | Retail & Mixed-Use Development by Plumb Signs
The Timber Ridge Bellevue property at 3009 112th Ave NE is a multi-tenant retail and mixed-use development on the Eastside. When the property needed a coordinated signage program — identity at the street, tenant-grade channel letters on the building, and clear wayfinding across the campus — Plumb Signs owned the whole chain of work, from the original site survey to the final electrical tie-in.
A mixed-use property is a hard signage problem. The same program has to serve the driver looking for the address from 112th Ave, the pedestrian walking the landscaped paths between buildings, the visitor circling for parking, and the tenant whose brand has to read cleanly against the architecture. One contractor on the property has to carry that whole conversation — design coordination with the development group, permit submission to the City of Bellevue, decommissioning of the old signage that was on site, fabrication of every new piece, mounting hardware sized to each substrate, electrical tie-ins to customer-supplied power, and as-built documentation when it’s done.
The full program was produced under one roof at the Plumb Signs shop at 909 S 28th St in Tacoma. One CAD set carried every piece — monument, channel letters, wayfinding cabinets, building directionals, and landscaping directionals — through engineering, fabrication, removal of the existing signage, and final install on new and existing concrete bases with mow strips. The result is a property that reads as one coordinated brand environment from the curb at 112th Ave NE all the way through to the back of the campus.
Project Snapshot
Monument & identity · 15″ illuminated channel letters · Wayfinding & directional cabinets · Building & landscaping directionals · Removal & site restoration of existing signage.
Painted aluminum · ½″ and ⅜″ acrylic graphics · Aluminum gusset logos · Stainless hardware · Vinyl graphics · Raceways · New and existing concrete bases with mow strips.
End-to-end mixed-use signage program at 3009 112th Ave NE in Bellevue, WA — design coordination with the Timber Ridge development group, City of Bellevue permitting, fabrication of monument, channel-letter, and wayfinding sign families, decommissioning and removal of existing on-site signage (including below-grade footings and concrete), fabrication of new cabinets and letters, installation on new and existing concrete bases with mow strips, electrical tie-ins to customer-supplied power, and as-built documentation at turnover.
Site survey · Design coordination with the Timber Ridge development group · CAD & shop drawings · Engineering · City of Bellevue permitting · Aluminum cabinet fabrication · 15″ infinity-faced channel-letter fabrication with routed aluminum gusset logos · Acrylic graphics routing & painted finishing · Decommissioning & removal of existing signage (above-grade structures + below-grade footings and concrete) · Site restoration to code · New and existing concrete-base installation with mow strips · Stainless mounting hardware · Raceway-mounted electrical integration · Tie-ins to customer-supplied power · As-built documentation at turnover.
Identity at the Street · Branding on the Building
Two reads tell the property’s story: the monument cabinet that pulls drivers off 112th Ave NE, and the exterior letter set on the building itself. Tap either view to enlarge.
15″ Infinity-Faced Letters — Reading Clean Against the Architecture
The exterior letter set on the Timber Ridge building is built from 15″ infinity-faced channel letters with routed aluminum gusset logos, mounted on a raceway with stainless hardware and tied into customer-supplied power on the building. Every cabinet ships bench-tested from the Plumb Signs shop in Tacoma so the install crew never finds a dark module on a lift in Bellevue.
A property at 3009 112th Ave NE has to compete for the driver’s eye against everything else on the corridor. The infinity-faced construction holds a tight, continuous color read at every speed and viewing angle, and the raceway keeps the electrical clean against the building’s architecture instead of pulling apart the elevation.
- · 15″ channel-letter construction
- · Infinity-faced for clean color read
- · Routed aluminum gusset logos
- · Raceway-mounted with stainless hardware
- · Bench-tested before ship
- · Tied into customer-supplied power
Wayfinding, Directionals & Site Pieces
A mixed-use campus only reads as one property if every site piece does too. Parking-garage clearance bars, decorative landscape accents, building directionals, post-mounted pedestrian directionals, and the completed monument set into its planted bed — same shop, same drawings, same standard. Tap any view to enlarge.
Fabrication & Sign Family
Five sign families, one brand language — built so the property reads as one coordinated environment from the curb at 112th Ave NE to the back of the campus.
Monument & Identity Cabinet
Double-face painted-aluminum cabinet with ½″ acrylic graphics and dimensional address numerals. Painted finishes matched to site materials. Mounted on new concrete base with mow strip.
15″ Illuminated Channel Letters
Infinity-faced channel letters with routed aluminum gusset logos. Raceway-mounted with stainless hardware. Bench-tested before ship; tied into customer-supplied power at install.
Wayfinding & Directionals
Non-illuminated aluminum cabinets with ⅜″ acrylic graphics for vehicular guidance. Post-mounted building directionals (3009-3015) and pedestrian panels set into landscaping for foot-traffic wayfinding.
Decommissioning & Site Restoration
Removal of existing on-site signage, extraction of below-grade footings and concrete, and surface restoration to City of Bellevue code — so the new program lands on a clean site.
Install & Electrical Integration
Installations on new and existing concrete bases with mow strips. Tie-ins to customer-supplied power. Lift work and field coordination with the on-site GC. As-built documentation at turnover.
One Shop, One Chain of Custody
Survey, design, drawings, engineering, permit, fab, remove, install, and as-built — all produced under one roof at the Plumb Signs shop at 909 S 28th St in Tacoma. One CAD set carries every piece to the property.
Painted aluminum and acrylic carry the whole program — cabinets for the monument and wayfinding, infinity-faced acrylic over aluminum cans for the channel letters, and routed acrylic graphics for the directionals. Stainless hardware throughout. Every illuminated sign that left the Tacoma shop carries a UL label and meets the code requirements of the City of Bellevue and Washington State.
Design & Engineering
The Timber Ridge program ran on one design conversation between Plumb Signs and the Timber Ridge development group. Shop drawings carried both the construction logic (footing, cabinet, electrical, mounting) and the brand logic (face graphic, letterforms, address numerals) so the same drawing controlled every step from the City of Bellevue permit submission through the final install.
- · Design coordination with the Timber Ridge development group
- · Shop drawings for every sign family in the program
- · Cabinet, footing, and mounting engineering
- · UL-rated, raceway-mounted channel-letter electrical spec
- · Acrylic graphic routing & painted aluminum finishing
- · Permitting & code compliance with the City of Bellevue
- · As-built documentation at turnover
Why This Approach Works for Retail & Mixed-Use Developments
A mixed-use property is a stack of audiences that all have to be solved in the same conversation. The driver coming up 112th Ave NE needs to find the address. The tenant needs the building to read as their brand to the customer who already searched for them online. The pedestrian crossing the campus needs to know which path goes to which building. The property owner needs the whole thing to hold up against Pacific Northwest weather, satisfy the City of Bellevue permit reviewer, and last long enough that the next major refresh is a brand decision, not a maintenance one.
For Timber Ridge, one signage contractor carried all four conversations — monument for the address, channel letters for the building, wayfinding for the campus, removal and restoration for the site, and electrical for the live tie-ins. That’s the case for a design-build-install fabricator on a property like this: fewer handoffs, fewer surprises, one phone number when something needs attention years later.
Retail & Mixed-Use Signage in Bellevue, Seattle & the Eastside
Plumb Signs is based in Tacoma, about forty minutes south of Bellevue. We design, fabricate, and install commercial signage for retail centers, mixed-use developments, multi-tenant properties, property managers, and architect / contractor partners across Bellevue, Seattle, Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, Renton, Tacoma, Olympia, and the wider Puget Sound region, with project work extending east of the Cascades into Yakima and the Tri-Cities and north into Bellingham.
The full Timber Ridge Bellevue program — survey, drawings, fabrication, removal, install, and as-built — was produced under one roof at 909 S 28th St in Tacoma. One team, one chain of custody, one point of accountability when a service call ever needs to happen on the property.
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Planning Signage for a Retail or Mixed-Use Development?
From a single monument cabinet to a full multi-family program — monument, channel letters, wayfinding, removal, and electrical — Plumb Signs designs, fabricates, removes, and installs retail and mixed-use signage that is durable, brand-accurate, and delivered under one roof from our Tacoma shop.
