Eastside (King County, Washington)

Not to be confused with Eastern Washington.
The Eastside is to the right (east) of Seattle.RentonBellevueKenmoreLake Forest ParkKirklandMercer IslandShorelineWoodinvilleRedmondRedmondIssaquahSammamishMedinaTukwila
The Eastside is to the right (east) of Seattle.

The Eastside of the King County, Washington area in the United States is a collective term for the suburbs of Seattle located on the east side of Lake Washington.

The most common definitions of the Eastside include the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish, Issaquah, Newcastle, and Mercer Island.[1][2][3]

The towns west of Bellevue, collectively known as the Gold Coast, are usually considered part of the Eastside. These include Beaux Arts Village, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Medina, and Yarrow Point.

The Northshore cities of Kenmore, Bothell, and Woodinville may be considered part of the Eastside, as each city contains portions that are east of the lake and south of its northernmost tip. Similarly, on the southeast tip of Lake Washington, Renton may also be included.[4]

The most expansive definitions of the Eastside can include cities in the Snoqualmie Valley, including Duvall, Carnation, Fall City, Snoqualmie, and North Bend.

In politics, the area is sometimes referred to as the "suburban crescent".[5]

History

Peter Kirk Building, built 1889–1890 as the Kirkland Investment Company Building. Now Kirkland Arts Center.

Several Indigenous peoples have lived on the Eastside for thousands of years prior to American colonization. The various subgroups of the Hachuamish, as well as the Sammamish, had many villages along the eastern coast of Lake Washington and the Sammamish River.[6] Although they were more contained to the southernmost reaches of the Eastside, the modern-day site of Renton was the center of Duwamish society.[7] Farther out in the Snoqualmie Valley, the Snoqualmie were historically one of the most populous tribes in the Puget Sound region.[8]

The cities on the Eastside mostly began as centers of logging or mining in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Once logged, the land was eventually cleared (primarily by Japanese immigrant labor) to support farming.[9] In the years prior to World War II they became centers of dairy and berry farming.

During the post-war boom, they became bedroom communities for Seattle. This was made possible by the 1940 construction of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge across Lake Washington, as well as the later construction of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in 1963; additional traffic later led to the construction of an additional bridge paralleling the Murrow bridge, Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge, as well as the replacement of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. Currently, the area is growing several edge cities.

Economy

Microsoft Building 17
View from Bellevue Downtown Park
See also: List of companies based in Bellevue, Washington and List of companies based in Kirkland, Washington

Bellevue is the largest city on the Eastside and fifth largest in the state. A major technology center, the Eastside is home to many large high-tech companies, mainly in the software and wireless industries, including Microsoft, T-Mobile US, Nintendo of America, AT&T Mobility (formerly Cingular), the former Western Wireless (now part of Verizon Wireless), Vulcan Ventures, 180 Solutions and InfoSpace. Companies like Paccar, Puget Sound Energy, Symetra Insurance, Boeing, Verizon Wireless, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Walt Disney, and Fox Sports also have national, major divisional or regional offices in the Eastside. The Eastside is also a hub for biotech and medical companies including Amgen, Icos, and Merck. Many local magnates, including Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, John Stanton, and Craig McCaw, live in the Eastside's cities. The Eastside is also home to many video game and interactive media companies. These include Bungie, Valve, ArenaNet, Sucker Punch, Monolith Productions, Sony Online Entertainment, Warner Brothers Entertainment, Microsoft Game Studios, Epic Games, Unity Technologies and DigiPen Institute of Technology.

Kirkland hosts the annual Junior League Softball World Series. Kirkland Signature is also the own brand of Costco, which founded its first warehouse in Seattle (#1), and operates from its corporate headquarters in the Eastside city of Issaquah.


Demographics

For the purposes of population estimates, Eastside includes Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish, Issaquah, Newcastle, Mercer Island, Woodinville, Kenmore, and Bothell.

City 2020[10] 2010[10] 2000 1990 1980 1970 1960
Bellevue 151,854 122,363 109,569 86,874 73,903 61,196 12,809
Kirkland 92,175 48,787 45,054 40,052 18,785 14,970 6,025
Redmond 73,256 54,144 45,256 35,800 23,318 11,020 1,426
Sammamish 67,455 45,780 34,104 - - - -
Bothell 48,161 33,505 30,150 12,345 7,943 5,420 2,237
Issaquah 40,051 30,434 11,212 7,786 5,536 4,313 1,870
Mercer Island 25,748 22,699 22,036 20,816 21,522 19,047 –
Kenmore 23,914 20,460 18,678 8,917 7,281 – –
Woodinville 13,069 10,938 9,194 – – – –
Newcastle 13,017 10,380 7,737 14,736 12,245 – -
Eastside altogether 548,700 399,490 332,990 227,326 170,533 115,966 24,367
King County 2,269,675 1,931,249 1,737,034 1,507,319 1,269,749 1,156,633 935,014
Eastside as percent of King county 24.18% 20.69% 19.17% 15.08% 13.43% 10.03% 2.61%
Seattle 737,015 608,660 563,374 516,259 493,846 530,831 557,087
Seattle as percent of King county 32.47% 31.52% 32.43% 34.25% 38.89% 45.89% 59.58%

Transportation

Air

See also: Category:Airports in King County, Washington

There are public and private airfields on the Eastside. Major facilities include:

There is also a landing zone for paragliding at the base of Tiger Mountain at 47°30′01.6″N 122°01′19.1″W / 47.500444°N 122.021972°W / 47.500444; -122.021972.[11]

Rail

Main article: Eastside Rail Corridor

The Woodinville Subdivision is a rail line built in the late 19th century. In 2008, the Wilburton Tunnel was eliminated, severing the line. The right-of-way was purchased the same year by the Port of Seattle.[12] Eastside cities and King County purchased portions of the Port property for conversion to a rail trail called the Eastside Rail Corridor.[13]

Road

The Eastside is connected to Seattle by the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge from Medina (State Route 520) and the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Third Lake Washington Bridge from Bellevue via Mercer Island (Interstate 90). It is also served by Interstate 405, a loop route of Interstate 5 that runs to the east of Lake Washington from Tukwila to Lynnwood.

References

  1. ^ "Eastside Business Journal (Masthead)". Eastside Business Journal. December 2007. Archived from the original on January 6, 2008. Retrieved January 11, 2008.
  2. ^ "Eastside Transportation Partnership Subareas (Map)" (PDF). Metro King County. April 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 19, 2008. Retrieved January 11, 2008.
  3. ^ "Subarea equity". Sound Transit. December 2007. Archived from the original on December 21, 2007. Retrieved January 11, 2008.
  4. ^ Vermillion, Allecia (October 23, 2024). "Which Towns Are Officially Part of the Eastside?". Seattle Met. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  5. ^ KOMO Staff; News Services (September 17, 2002). "Primary Election Results". KOMO News. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
  6. ^ Buerge, David (August 1, 1984). "Indian Lake Washington" (PDF). Seattle Weekly. pp. 29–33. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
  7. ^ Tollefson, Kenneth D. (1989). "Political Organization of the Duwamish". Ethnology. 28 (2): 135–149. doi:10.2307/3773671. ISSN 0014-1828. JSTOR 3773671. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
  8. ^ Krishnan, Sonia (January 4, 2005). "Snoqualmie Tribe on road to self-sufficiency". National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
  9. ^ Neiwert, David (2005). Strawberry Days. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 11, 31. ISBN 978-1403967923.
  10. ^ a b "Census". September 3, 2024.
  11. ^ "Site guide: Tiger Mountain". Northwest Paragliding Club. Archived from the original on August 2, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
  12. ^ Eastside Rail Corridor, Port of Seattle
  13. ^ Cross Kirkland Corridor, City of Kirkland, 2012

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