Elite Grounds, LLC

About Elite Grounds, LLC

In Olde Towne Bellevue, where the brick streets narrow and the sidewalks sit close to the curb, Elite Grounds works block by block behind a plow blade sized to fit the old grid. The neighborhood here was laid out long before anyone thought about wide driveways, so clearing it takes a lighter touch than the newer streets up on the ridge. Ice likes to hide in the brick's seams, so the crew works the walks by hand where the plow can't reach, chipping down to the old red pavers underneath. Above the rooftops, the bluff climbs toward the river, and on a clear morning after a storm the sun catches the cleared streets first, then the snow-covered hillside behind them. It's close, careful work, matched to a part of town whose narrow blocks haven't changed shape in a long while.