Sound Transit Wilburton Station
Eastrail NE 8th St Crossing, Bellevue 
Installed 2024

​Isan Bellevue became aware of the King County Eastrail project to create a 42-mile multi-use trail on the Eastside. This trail converts the former Northern Pacific Railroad (later Burlington Northern Santa Fe) line that connected Bellevue to a nationwide freight network.
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In Bellevue, at the site where the Eastrail intersects with the new Wilburton Light Rail Station, a building of significance to the Japanese American community was removed so that the light rail project could proceed. Just north of the NE 8th St. bridge crossing where the Sound Transit station is located was the site of original Bellevue Vegetable Growers Association packing house. Built by Japanese American farmers in the 1930s to support them as they shipped their produce to destinations around the country, it was in use until the families were forcibly removed from their homes in 1942.

"Harvesting History" mural with custom fence rails in foreground, Wilburton Station, Bellevue

The focus of the North Mixing Zone is the story of the Bellevue Growers Association packing house and what it represented - agricultural history and community.

"Harvesting History" (2021)