Bellevue, Washington For other places with the same name, see Bellevue .
Bellevue, Washington City of Bellevue Downtown Bellevue seen in 2011 against the backdrop of Lake Washington Downtown Bellevue seen in 2011 against the backdrop of Lake Washington Official seal of Bellevue, Washington Location of Bellevue inside King County, Washington, and King County inside Washington.
Location of Bellevue inside King County, Washington, and King County inside Washington.
Bellevue, Washington is positioned in the US Bellevue, Washington - Bellevue, Washington Bellevue (/ b lvju / bel-vew) is a town/city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, athwart Lake Washington from Seattle.
As the third-largest town/city in the Seattle urbane area, Bellevue has variously been characterized as an edge city, a boomburb, or satellite city. The town/city had a populace of 122,363 at the 2010 census.
Prior to 2008, downtown Bellevue underwent rapid change, with many high rise projects under construction, and was mostly unaffected by the economic downturn.
The downtown region is presently the second biggest city center in Washington state with 1,300 businesses, 45,000 employees and 10,200 residents. Based on per capita income, Bellevue is the 6th wealthiest of 522 communities in the state of Washington. In 2008, Bellevue was titled number 1 in CNNMoney's list of the best places to live and launch a business, and in 2010 was again ranked as the 4th best place to live in America. In 2014, Bellevue was ranked as the 2nd best place to live by USA Today. More than 145 companies have been positioned in Bellevue.
Current companies with command posts in Bellevue include Expedia and T-Mobile.
The name "Bellevue" is French for "beautiful view". See also: List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington Bellevue was settled in 1869 by William Meydenbauer and Aaron Mercer, who claimed homestead tracts a several miles apart.
Prior to the opening of the Lake Washington Floating Bridge in 1940, Bellevue was a non-urban area with little development.
Ditty predicted that it would turn into a town/city with a populace of 200,000. He envisioned plans that encompassed the bridging of Lake Washington and an region filled with golf courses and airports. His map with these visions was presented in 1928. Once the Murrow Memorial Bridge opened, access from Seattle improved, and the region gradually interval into a bedroom community. After the Japanese Internment began in 1942 a large quantity of farm territory was available for development. This made way for the initial evolution of the Bellevue downtown area.
Bellevue seen from Meydenbauer Bay in 1902 Bellevue incorporated as a third class town/city on March 21, 1953.
Following the 1963 opening of a second bridge athwart the lake, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the town/city began to expanded more rapidly.
It has since turn into one of the biggest cities in the state, with a several high-rise structures in its core and a burgeoning company community.
Reflective of Bellevue's expansion over the years is Bellevue Square, now one of the biggest shopping centers in the region.
More recently, an expansion along Bellevue Way called "The Lodge" and the new One Lincoln Tower promise to strengthen downtown Bellevue's part as the biggest Seattle Eastside shopping and dining destination.
The city's long-term plans include the Bel-Red Corridor Project, a large-scale planning accomplishment to encourage the redevelopment of a large northern section of the town/city bordering the contiguous town of Redmond which is a primary employment region in the city. Patterned after what many civic leaders consider the prosperous redevelopment of the downtown core, early plans include "superblock" different use projects similar to Lincoln Square.
Premised on the 2008 approval of the extension of Link Light Rail to the Eastside, the town/city hopes to mitigate transit enigma impeding earlier accomplishments in redeveloping the downtown core; viewed as an economic evolution opportunity by many in the company and building evolution community, the process has concentrated on transit framework and the encouragement of private assembly in a large-scale urban renewal accomplishment.
Bellevue is positioned at 47 36 N 122 12 W (47.5976, -122.1592). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 36.47 square miles (94.46 km2), of which, 31.97 square miles (82.80 km2) is territory and 4.50 square miles (11.65 km2) is water. The town/city lies between Lake Washington to the west and the lesser Lake Sammamish to the east.
Much of Bellevue is drained by the Kelsey Creek watershed, whose origin is positioned in the Larsen and Phantom Lake green belt and whose supply is near where Interstate 90 meets Lake Washington's easterly shore.
The State Route 520 motorway approximately delineates the upper reaches of Bellevue.
South of I-90, the town/city continues up Cougar Mountain, at the top of which lies is an unincorporated King County locale called Hilltop.
To the west of Cougar Mountain, Bellevue contains the Coal Creek, Somerset, and Factoria neighborhoods.
Bellevue is bordered by the metros/cities of Kirkland to the north and Redmond to the northeast along the Overlake and Crossroads neighborhoods.
Across the short East Channel Bridge, I-90 joins Bellevue to Mercer Island to the southwest.
The south end of Bellevue is bordered by the town/city of Renton, and to the southeast, the mostly recently incorporated town/city of Newcastle.
Communities inside Bellevue include Bellecrest, Bridle Trails, Crossroads, Eastgate/Cougar Mountain, Enatai, Factoria, Newport, Northeast Bellevue, Northwest Bellevue, Sammamish/East Bellevue, Somerset, Sunset, Tam o'shanter, West Bellevue, West Lake Hills, Wilburton, and Woodridge. Bellevue, Washington aerial with Seattle seen athwart Lake Washington, 2013 Mist at dawn in Bellevue, 2016 Like much of the Puget Sound lowland, Bellevue has a mild oceanic climate.
Bellevue Climate data for Bellevue, Washington Bellevue Bellevue is the chief Eastside core for both the small-town transit authority, King County Metro, and Sound Transit, the county-wide transit system.
The Bellevue Transit Center, which serves both Metro and Sound buses, is positioned in the heart of the downtown company precinct and is connected to Interstate 405 by NE 6th St.
The East Link light rail line is prepared to run from Seattle through Mercer Island and Bellevue before ending in Redmond.
The Bellevue City Council lobbied difficult for Sound Transit a county-wide transit authority to construct its light-rail line underground through Bellevue's quickly growing downtown. Bellevue promised to devote between $104 million to $150 million toward a potential tunnel in the form of cash, services, no-charge access to rights-of-way and one-time tax revenues that result from the East Link project.
In November 2011, the council signed an agreement with Sound Transit. Tunnel assembly is scheduled to begin in early 2016 while the remainder of downtown Bellevue assembly will begin in mid-2017. Bellevue City Council member Claudia Balducci is a member of the Sound Transit board of directors.
The City of Bellevue has undertaken an extensive "Bel-Red Area Transformation" process which seeks to plan some 900 acres (3.6 km2) in the northern portion of the city, all of which is premised on the extension of light rail to the Eastside under Sound Transit 2. The top-down and highly integrated territory use and transit planning is similar to earlier planning for the Downtown.
Bellevue was also served by a barns , a Burlington Northern branch line known as the Woodinville Subdivision, which encompassed the historic Wilburton Trestle.
The town/city once had an operating air-field titled Bellevue Airfield.
Bellevue City Hall Bellevue has a council-manager form of government with seven, non-partisan council members voted for at large for staggered four-year terms. The City Council selects a Mayor from among its members (and not by prominent vote), who serves as council chair but has no veto power.
The mayor administrates council meetings, helps set the issues on the council's meeting agendas, and serves as the city's most visible spokesperson, while working authority is held by the town/city manager, who operates the city's day-to-day activities.
Main article: Bellevue School District Bellevue is home to Bellevue College (BC) and City University of Seattle.
The town/city hosts the Bellevue School District.
There are four chief enhance high schools Bellevue High School, Interlake High School, Newport High School, and Sammamish High School as well as two alternative high schools, International School and Big Picture School, which opened in 2011.
Public high schools placed Interlake at #359 and Newport at #391, with both schools noted for equitably helping low-income pupils meet average scores on influencing tests. Portions of Bellevue also lie inside the boundaries of Lake Washington School District, Renton School District and Issaquah School District.
The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle is positioned in Bellevue, serving pupils from Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 8.
At the elementary level, Bellevue is home to a several Montessori schools, the Eastside's only Waldorf education at Three Cedars School, as well as Bellevue Christian School.
See also: List of companies based in Bellevue, Washington With its immediate adjacency to Redmond, home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America, and direct highway access to Seattle via Interstate 90 and State Route 520, Bellevue is now home to the command posts of many small and large businesses, many of which are technology companies that started in the 1990s, including jubilated video game companies Valve and Bungie.
The town/city has various grow commercial districts, including three primary shopping centers aside from Bellevue Square: Factoria Mall to the South, Crossroads Mall to the East, and the Overlake Shopping District in the North.
Panorama of Bellevue, Washington.
According to a 2012 estimate, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $88,073, and the median income for a family was $104,839.
In 2006, Bellevue was rated one of the 25 safest metros/cities in America, based on the per-capita incidence of violent crime.
The median age in the town/city was 38.5 years.
As of the census of 2000, there were 109,569 citizens , 45,836 homeholds, and 29,060 families living in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.1% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 25.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $62,338, and the median income for a family was $76,868.
Bellevue is the site of the prominent annual Bellevue Arts and Crafts Fair (originally Pacific Northwest Arts and Crafts Fair), held since 1947 at the end of July.
The biennial Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition draws thousands of visitors to the Downtown Park to view up to 46 three-dimensional artworks from artists around the country.
The Bellevue 24-Hour Relay has also been hosted every July in Bellevue Downtown Park.
In celebration of its strawberry farming history, Bellevue holds an annual Strawberry Festival on the fourth weekend in June. The festival initially began in 1925, and continued to 1942 when many Bellevue's strawberry farmers were incarcerated as part of the Japanese Internment.
Bellevue Arts Museum The Bellevue Arts Museum first opened in 1975, then moved to Bellevue Square in 1983.
Since the 1970s, the town/city has taken an active part in ensuring that its commercial evolution does not overwhelm its natural territory and water resources. Today, the Bellevue Parks and Community Services Department manages more than 2,500 acres (10 km2) of parks and open spaces, including the Downtown Park and the Bellevue Botanical Garden, as well as a several playgrounds, beach parks, and trails.
More than 5,500 Bellevue inhabitants participate in volunteer activities through this department annually. Bellevue was home to the American Basketball Association team, the Bellevue Blackhawks.
Being a mostly young city, Bellevue has not had many nicknames.
However, with recent assembly and town/city development, a large number of modern, glass high-rise buildings have cropped up in the town/city skyline, and many people now refer to Bellevue as "Glass City" or "The City of Glass".
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