As of 2017 the greater Seattle population was estimated 3,798,902. That includes Seattle Tacoma and Bellevue but not the close in suburbs which are also growing at a break-neck pace. Bellevue and other communities east of Seattle are reached by two bridges. The recently built replacement SR 520 Evergreen Point bridge, at 7710 feet long is the longest floating bridge in the world, with electronic tolling and a generously sized pedestrian and bike lane and plans to incorporate the light rail system now under construction. As home to a number of the region’s top tech companies, employment growth anticipated at almost 40 percent over the next ten years Bellevue and its neighboring cities Redmond, Bothell and Woodenville and at the top of the regional boom. Microsoft continues to expand is huge campus while new downtown Bellevue skyscrapers pop up in what 20 years ago was a series of small strip malls and whole new neighborhoods, like Bellevue’s Spring District emerge from what was lightly developed industrial land. Residential complexes like Sparc are developed in tandem with tech incubators like the GIX global innovation exchange, a joint venture of the University of Washington and Tsinghua University in Beijing that got early support from Microsoft and now is training an international cadre of young innovators, mostly from China and the US. In this photograph Bellevue residents manage the output of their pet poodle at Bellevue's Downtown Park
As of 2017 the greater Seattle population was estimated 3,798,902. That includes Seattle Tacoma and Bellevue but not the close in suburbs which are also growing at a break-neck pace. Bellevue and other communities east of Seattle are reached by two bridges. The recently built replacement SR 520 Evergreen Point bridge, at 7710 feet long is the longest floating bridge in the world, with electronic tolling and a generously sized pedestrian and bike lane and plans to incorporate the light rail system now under construction. As home to a number of the region’s top tech companies, employment growth anticipated at almost 40 percent over the next ten years Bellevue and its neighboring cities Redmond, Bothell and Woodenville and at the top of the regional boom. Microsoft continues to expand is huge campus while new downtown Bellevue skyscrapers pop up in what 20 years ago was a series of small strip malls and whole new neighborhoods, like Bellevue’s Spring District emerge from what was lightly developed industrial land. Residential complexes like Sparc are developed in tandem with tech incubators like the GIX global innovation exchange, a joint venture of the University of Washington and Tsinghua University in Beijing that got early support from Microsoft and now is training an international cadre of young innovators, mostly from China and the US. In this photograph a skybridge links Bellevue Square to a complex of office and retail towers.
As of 2017 the greater Seattle population was estimated 3,798,902. That includes Seattle Tacoma and Bellevue but not the close in suburbs which are also growing at a break-neck pace. Bellevue and other communities east of Seattle are reached by two bridges. The recently built replacement SR 520 Evergreen Point bridge, at 7710 feet long is the longest floating bridge in the world, with electronic tolling and a generously sized pedestrian and bike lane and plans to incorporate the light rail system now under construction. As home to a number of the region’s top tech companies, employment growth anticipated at almost 40 percent over the next ten years Bellevue and its neighboring cities Redmond, Bothell and Woodenville and at the top of the regional boom. Microsoft continues to expand is huge campus while new downtown Bellevue skyscrapers pop up in what 20 years ago was a series of small strip malls and whole new neighborhoods, like Bellevue’s Spring District emerge from what was lightly developed industrial land. Residential complexes like Sparc are developed in tandem with tech incubators like the GIX global innovation exchange, a joint venture of the University of Washington and Tsinghua University in Beijing that got early support from Microsoft and now is training an international cadre of young innovators, mostly from China and the US. In this photograph Asian residents an increasingly dominant demographic on the East Side, Shop at Bellevue Square shopping Mall
