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Redmond, WA
Redmond has been home to Microsoft's global headquarters since the company relocated there from Bellevue in 1986, and the sprawling campus — which has grown to include dozens of buildings across hundreds of acres — has made Redmond one of the most economically significant small cities in the entire Pacific Northwest relative to its modest population of roughly 75,000 residents. Nintendo of America's headquarters is also based in Redmond, giving the city an unusual concentration of two globally significant technology and gaming companies within a few miles of each other, a density of major corporate employment rare for a suburb of Redmond's size anywhere in the country. Despite that heavy corporate presence, Redmond has maintained a genuine outdoor-recreation identity as well — the city bills itself as the "Bicycle Capital of the Northwest," with an extensive network of mountain biking and road cycling trails, including the Marymoor Park velodrome, one of the only outdoor cycling tracks of its kind on the West Coast. Redmond's combination of hosting Microsoft's entire global headquarters, a significant Nintendo of America presence, and a genuinely well-developed cycling and outdoor-recreation culture has made it one of the most economically important and recreationally distinctive suburbs anywhere in the greater Seattle area.
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Bellevue, WA
Bellevue sits directly across Lake Washington from Seattle, connected by two floating bridges — the I-90 and SR 520 bridges, both among the longest floating bridges in the world, a genuinely unusual piece of regional infrastructure necessitated by the lake's depth and soft bottom sediment, which make conventional pilings impractical across much of its width. Over the past two decades, Bellevue's downtown has grown from a fairly conventional suburban office and retail center into a genuine second downtown for the broader Seattle metro area, with a skyline of high-rise office and residential towers that's drawn major corporate tenants, including T-Mobile's US headquarters, specifically seeking an alternative to Seattle's own downtown real estate market. Bellevue Square, one of the highest-grossing shopping malls in the entire country on a per-square-foot basis, anchors a broader downtown retail district that's benefited directly from the substantial tech-sector wealth concentrated on the Eastside, the informal name for the cluster of Seattle-area suburbs east of Lake Washington that includes Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland. Bellevue's combination of a rapidly built-up second downtown skyline, a major corporate headquarters presence, and its position at the center of the tech-wealthy Eastside has made it one of the fastest-growing and most economically significant suburbs anywhere in the greater Seattle metropolitan area.
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