The Seattle Times
With Bellevue Collections on sale, owner's 'shoes are too big to fill'
After building a vast retail and real estate empire that transformed downtown Bellevue, Kemper Freeman Jr. is selling his family’s iconic collection of properties, marking the end of an era.
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