Redmond, Washington
Redmond, Washington City of Redmond Skyline of Redmond, Washington Official seal of Redmond, Washington Location of Redmond inside King County and King County inside Washington.
Location of Redmond inside King County and King County inside Washington.
Redmond, Washington is positioned in the US Redmond, Washington - Redmond, Washington Demonym(s) Redmonder Redmond is a town/city in King County, Washington, United States, positioned 16 miles (26 km) east of Seattle, inside the Seattle urbane area.
Redmond is generally recognized as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America.
With an annual bike race on town/city streets and the state's only velodrome, Redmond is also known as the "Bicycle Capital of the Northwest". Redmond is bordered by Kirkland to the west, Bellevue to the southwest, and Sammamish to the southeast.
Redmond is positioned at 47 40 10 N 122 07 26 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.94 square miles (43.87 km2), of which, 16.28 square miles (42.17 km2) is territory and 0.66 square miles (1.71 km2) is water. Climate data for Redmond, Washington The biggest employer in the town/city by far is Microsoft Corporation, which moved its command posts to Redmond in 1986.
Microsoft has over 40,000 blue badge FTEs (full-time employee), 45,000 orange badge contractors (as of June 2012, there are over 94,000 workers, and over half are contractors), and more than 8 million square feet (750,000 square meters) of office space in the Seattle region Eastside region, primarily in Redmond, with extra offices in Bellevue and Issaquah (90,000 employees worldwide).
In June 2006, Microsoft purchased former Safeco's Redmond ground at 4515-5069 154th Place NE for $220.5 million. Other companies with command posts in Redmond include Nintendo of America, Genie Industries, Physio-Control, Visible.net, Wild - Tangent, Solstice and Data I/O.
Unlike Bellevue and other neighboring cities, the City of Redmond does not have a Business and Occupation tax on income. However, to help offset the costs of road improvements for businesses, a company license fee of $55 per employee was allowed in 1996.
According to Redmond's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: Redmond Derby Days is an annual improve festival held the second full weekend of July and jubilated its 75th anniversary in 2015. It began as a race around Lake Sammamish called the Redmond Bicycle Derby in 1939, and since then has turn into a multi-day event including a bicycle criterium, parade, entertainment stages, beer garden, small-town food offerings and activities.
Performing arts in Redmond include the Eastside Symphony and the Second Story Repertory theater company, as well as artists who play at the Redmond Performing Arts Center.
Redmond has a compilation of outside sculptures throughout its streets and parks, many of which are part of a rotating sculpture exhibition. Redmond Lights is an annual improve festival held the first Saturday of December.
It features a special guest each year, a tree-lighting conducted by the mayor on town/city hall campus, a luminary walk on the Sammamish Trail and Redmond Central Connector with musical and light stations along the way to Redmond Town Center where there are many special attractions such as a carrousel, skating rink and food sampling. The Old Redmond Firehouse is a center for small-town teens.
Redmond Saturday Market is the earliest farmer's market in the Seattle area's east side.
This market is held on Saturdays from May through October on roughly 8,000 square feet of territory near the Redmond Town Center.
The City of Redmond has allowed an ordinance that the current market site be preserved for its improve and historic significance. Native Americans have lived in the Redmond region for at least 10,000 years, based on artifacts identified at the Redmond Town Center archaeological site and Marymoor Prehistoric Indian Site. The first European pioneer appeared in the 1870s.
After becoming postmaster, he successfully petitioned to have the name changed to Redmond in 1883. The abundant forests and fish of Redmond provided jobs for loggers and fishermen and with those jobs came demand for goods and services, bringing in merchants.
The first plat for Redmond was filed on May 11, 1891, encompassing much of the region now known as downtown.
After reaching the necessary populace of 300, Redmond was incorporated on December 31, 1912. Redmond experienced an economic downturn in the 1920s.
Agriculture became Redmond's major business, keeping inhabitants fed amid the Great Depression.
After the war, Redmond's expansion began in earnest.
The culmination of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge athwart Lake Washington in 1963 allowed Redmond to flourish as a suburb of Seattle.
Enumeration Bureau proclaimed Redmond the quickest burgeoning city in the state.
Redmond underwent a commercial boom amid the 1990s, culminating in 1997 with the opening of Redmond Town Center, a primary county-wide shopping center on the site of a long-defunct golf course. In recent years the town/city has been experiencing burgeoning pains as a result of its rapid expansion, especially in the areas of urban sprawl and traffic congestion.
These enigma are being mitigated by the expansion of SR-520 and the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, as well as the prepared light rail service via the East Link Extension from Seattle to Redmond to open in 2023. Redmond has designated the following landmarks: Brown's Garage 1920 unknown 16389 Redmond Way Haida House, Redmond, Washington, USA, June 2011.png Earl and Elise Mc - Whirter Farm (Hutcheson Homestead) about 1936 unknown 19545 NE Redmond Road Justice White House (Hotel Redmond) 1889 unknown 7529 Leary Way NE Lodge Hall (Redmond Hardware, Gerk's, Edge & Spoke) 1903 unknown 7875 Leary Way NE Odd Fellows Hall (Redmond's Bar & Grill) 1903 unknown 7979 Leary Way NE Redmond City Park (Albert Anderson Memorial Park) 1938 2008 7802 168th Avenue NE Redmond, WA - Anderson Park Redmond Methodist Episcopal Church (First Methodist Church) 1908 unknown 16540 NE 80th Street Redmond Pioneer Cemetery 1904 unknown 180th Avenue NE between NE 70th and NE 76th Streets None Redmond School (Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center) 1922 unknown 16600 NE 80th Street Redmond, WA - Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center 01.jpg Redmond State Bank 1911 unknown 7841 Leary Way NE Redmond Trading Company 1908 unknown 7805 Leary Way NE According to the city's website, Redmond has 23 advanced enhance parks, totaling over a thousand acres (4 km ). Many of these are neighborhood parks with picnic tables and sports fields or courts.
The biggest park inside the town/city is not owned by the town/city it is King County's 560 acres (2.3 km2) Marymoor Park, one of the most prominent in King County.
It features a climbing rock, a model aircraft flying field, a 48-acre off-leash dog park, an outside theater, sports fields such as baseball and soccer, a playground, tennis courts, a improve garden, cricket pitch, and a velodrome, which hosts the FSA Star Crossed Redmond cyclo-cross competition in September.
In 2004, Redmond North Little League won the Northwest region and participated in the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, PA.
With Redmond North claiming the Northwest, it is the third team from Washington to claim the Northwest since its inception in 2001.
Redmond has a non-partisan mayor-council form of government, with the mayor and seven council members voted for at large for staggered four-year terms.
The town/city council authorized a ballot measure in March 2003 that would have changed Redmond to a council-manager government.
Redmond is part of the Lake Washington School District, which also encompasses Kirkland, and parts of Sammamish and Woodinville.
The enhance schools in Redmond include ten elementary schools (Alcott, Audubon, Dickinson, Einstein, Mann, Redmond, Rockwell, Rosa Parks, Rush and Wilder), three middle schools (Redmond Middle, Evergreen Middle, Rose Hill Middle), and two high schools (Redmond High School, Nikola Tesla STEM High School (choice)).
The English Hill neighborhood in North Redmond (unincorporated King County) is served by the Northshore School District and Sunrise Elementary.
The far east side of Redmond is known as Redmond Ridge.
Redmond Ridge and Redmond Ridge East communities are part of the Lake Washington school district.
Digi - Pen Institute of Technology and the secondary ground of Lake Washington Technical College are positioned in Redmond.
The town/city is home to Redmond Regional Library, the second-largest library in the King County Library System. Jeannine Hall Gailey, poet, writer, poet laureate of Redmond 2012 2013 Henry Hill, former mobster, lived in Redmond in the late 1980s City of Redmond.
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