Living in Redmond
Light rail changed the math. Redmond pairs one of the region’s strongest job bases with a downtown you can actually walk, a 640-acre park at its doorstep, and river trails running straight through the middle of town.
Trails and a growing downtown
A downtown growing along the Sammamish River Trail, with major employers and light rail connecting it to the region.
A Tech Town That Grew Into a Real One
Redmond has been an employment powerhouse for decades. What’s new is how it lives: light rail now runs into the heart of downtown, and the city around the stations is filling in with the kind of everyday urbanity the area long lacked.
Weekends here orbit Marymoor Park, concerts, the velodrome, one of the country’s great off-leash dog parks, and the Sammamish River Trail, which carries bikes from downtown all the way to the wineries of Woodinville and beyond. Add a compact downtown of breweries, restaurants, and Redmond Town Center, and you get a city where the commute, the park, and dinner can all happen without a car.
Where Redmond Life Happens
Downtown
Light rail, breweries, restaurants, and a growing residential core: Redmond’s walkable heart, anchored by the Downtown Redmond station.
Marymoor Village
The neighborhood rising beside Marymoor Park and its own light rail station, trail access one way, concerts the other.
Education Hill
Established residential streets on the hill above downtown, the kind of blocks people settle into and stay on for generations.
Overlake
The employment district shared with Bellevue, stitched into the regional light rail line, and steadily adding places to live, not just work.
The Newest Rail Town East of the Lake
With the 2 Line running through Overlake, Marymoor Village, and Downtown Redmond, the city is directly wired to Bellevue and the regional network.
Highway 520 puts Seattle within reach, buses feed the rail spine, and the Sammamish River and East Lake Sammamish trails give cyclists genuine car-free commutes. For daily life, downtown and Town Center cover groceries to date night within a compact radius.
Our Homes Near Redmond
The closest Olsen Anderson communities to Redmond, built by our own team.
- 9838 NE 14th St →Under Construction · 6 homes
We’re Building Across the Lake
Olsen Anderson builds across Seattle, and rail-served, walkable Redmond is squarely the kind of place we look next as Washington’s middle-housing rules open established blocks to new homes.
If you own property in Redmond and wonder what it could support, our team offers a Landowner Consult. If you’re hoping to buy here, tell us, where our buyers want to live shapes where we build next.