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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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Issaquah, WA
Issaquah sits at the base of the Cascade foothills east of Bellevue, and its position at the edge of significant hiking terrain — including the popular Tiger Mountain and Squak Mountain trail networks — has given it a genuinely outdoorsy identity distinct from the more purely corporate character of some of its Eastside neighbors. Costco Wholesale has been headquartered in Issaquah since 1996, and the warehouse retail giant's global headquarters campus has made the city one of the more economically significant suburbs on the Eastside despite its comparatively modest population of around 40,000 residents. The city's historic downtown, built originally around coal mining and railroad industries in the late 19th century, has been preserved alongside newer development, giving Issaquah a genuine small-town commercial core distinct from the master-planned retail centers found in some of the area's more recently developed suburbs. Issaquah's combination of direct access to Cascade foothill hiking trails, a major global corporate headquarters in Costco, and a preserved historic downtown core has made it one of the more distinctively outdoors-oriented suburbs anywhere on Seattle's rapidly growing Eastside.
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