Check out the first of three luxury condos opening along Bellingham’s waterfront
The first of three multimillion-dollar residential condo buildings being constructed along Bellingham’s waterfront is welcoming its first residents, with project developers confident that the building will be fully occupied in the next two months.
The luxury condominium project has been fraught with construction delays while the development company, Ireland-based Harcourt Developments, navigated a legal battle with the Port of Bellingham that was more or less mutually settled late last year.
The first building has 28 residential condos and four ground-floor commercial spaces on top of 160 underground parking stalls spanning all three buildings. All three buildings will have a total of 106 units when they are complete, with one parking stall reserved for each unit and additional parking planned to be available for public use, according to the developers.
The residential condos in the first building range in price from $535,000 to $1.85 million. Most of the units range in size from 800 square feet to 1,600 square feet, with the exception of the penthouse on the fifth floor, which is the largest unit in the building at about 2,300 square feet.
Half of the residential units in the first building have been purchased, with 14 units, including the penthouse, still available as of April 11. None of the commercial spaces had yet been purchased or rented as of the same date.
The second and third buildings are both visibly underway, with the second building expected to be completed in about six months and resident move-in expected by the end of the year, according to the commercial brokers for the project. They did not provide an estimated completion date for the third building.
Harcourt Developments has spent about $60 million on the three-building project to date, according to Project Director Louis Parr. The development company expects to spend $80 million in total once the project is complete.
Originally selected in 2015 as the lead developer for about 19 acres of the Waterfront District, Harcourt lost the opportunity for future development in the area after it defaulted on its contract in 2023. The Port of Bellingham filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging Harcourt to be in eight individual contractual defaults, including failure to complete its first two residential buildings within the contract’s timeline and several violations of state and federal environmental standards.
Harcourt denied the default findings and filed a countersuit against the Port, seeking a restraining order against the Port and alleging Port officials threatened to call police and request trespassing citations be issued if Harcourt did not remove its equipment from Port property.
The Port and the city of Bellingham have been working to redevelop a total of 237 acres on Bellingham’s central waterfront that was formerly a pulp and tissue mill. A master plan has been approved to create what the Port is calling “a vibrant, mixed-use neighborhood with new parks and trails and thousands of new jobs.”
The redevelopment is expected to occur in phases over the next several decades.
This story was originally published April 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM.
