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City of Bellevue, Washington

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Locación de Bellevue a dentro de el contidad de King, y el contidad a dentro de Washington.

Condados

Condado de King

Incorporada

El 21 de marzo de 1953

Alcalde

Grant Degginger

Área

- Ciudad

87.8 km²

- Tierra

79.6 km²

- Agua

8.2 km²

Población

- Ciudad (April 1, 2006)

117,000

- Densidad

1,470 hab./km²

Zona horaria

Pacifico (UTC−8)

- Verano (DST)

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Página web: http://www.ci.bellevue.wa.us/

Bellevue es un suburburbio de Seattle en King County, Washington, Estados Unidos, al otro lado de Lake Washington de Seattle. En 2003 el United States Census Bureau estimó que la ciudad tuvo un población de 112.344, la ciudad quinto más grande del estado y el más grande del lado este de King County. Según la estimación del Washington State Office of Financial Management de 1 April, 2006, la ciudad tiene un población de 117.000.

El centro de Bellevue está experimentando un cambio rápido. Lincoln Square abrió en 2005 y la renovación del edifício, anteriormente llamado el "Qwest Building", al nuevo municipalidad (appear to be the leading edge of a development boom. Over the next few years, the area will see the construction of several additional high-rises and other projects for office, residential, and retail space.

Según los ingresos per capita, Bellevue es la 15ª comunidad más rica de las 522 que forman el Estado de Washington.

[editar] Historia y crecimiento

Bellevue estuvo fundado en 1869 por William Meydenbauer y fui incorporado oficialmente 21 de Marzo, 1953. Antes de inauguración de Lake Washington Floating Bridge (la puente de pontones primera del Lago de Washington) en 1940, Bellevue fue una comunidad rurál. Después de la terminación de la construcción de la puente, Bellevue era más connectado con Seattle y el pueblo creció gradualmente.

Después de la inauguración de una segundo en 1963, la Evergreen Point Floating Bridge (también una puente de pontones), la cuidad empezó a crecer rápidamente y eventualmente Bellevue llegó a ser una de las ciudades más grande en el estado, con varios torres en el centro de la ciudad y mucho comercio.

Reflective of Bellevue's growth over the years is Bellevue Square, now one of the largest shopping centers in the region. Opened in 1946, Bellevue Square underwent a significant expansion in the 1980s. More recently, an expansion to Bellevue Square along Bellevue Way called "The Lodge" and the new One Lincoln Tower directly across Bellevue Way from the Square promise to solidify downtown Bellevue as the primary Eastside shopping and dining destination. The Bravern, a large mixed-use project currently under construction, will feature a Neiman Marcus (the first in the Pacific Northwest) as well as other upscale shops.

After a regional downturn in the early 2000s stopped construction in its tracks, Bellevue is again growing. The first phase of Ashwood Commons, a mostly-residential hi-rise, recently completed construction. A second tower (for offices) is under construction at Lincoln Square; a new mixed-use development with a Safeway flagship store and luxury apartments (Avalon Meydenbauer) and a two-tower luxury condominium project (Bellevue Towers) have already broken ground. Another development similar to Lincoln Square is also planned for the site of the current Safeway. A "superblock" development called Washington Square will cover nine city blocks and eventually include no fewer than six 22-story towers.

Other projects in Bellevue's future include Meydenbauer Place, a new Performing Arts center, a second City Center office tower (which broke ground in July 2006), three more residential towers, and, at long last, construction has resumed on the abandoned Tech Tower site, now to be called Tower 333. Developers have reported that they do not expect to have any difficulty finding tenants for all this new space.

[editar] Geografía

El perfil de Bellevue de Downtown Park. Los torres que están visible (I a D) son One Lincoln Tower, Symetra Tower, Key Center, City Center Bellevue, One Bellevue Center, y Skyline Tower.

Bellevue está locado a 47° 35′ 51″ N 122° 9′ 33″ O (47.597554, -122.159245)Plantilla:GR.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 87.8 km² (33.9 mi²). 79.6 km² (30.8 mi²) of it is land and 8.2 km² (3.2 mi²) of it (9.29%) is water.

The city's name is derived from a French term for "beautiful view". Under favorable weather conditions, scenic vistas of the Olympic Mountains and Cascade Mountains can be viewed from hilltops (and strategically-positioned high-rise buildings) within the incorporated city.

The city lies between Lake Washington to the west and the smaller Lake Sammamish to the east. Much of Bellevue is drained by the Kelsey Creek watershed, whose source is located in the Larsen and Phantom Lake greenbelt and whose outlet is near where Interstate 90 meets Lake Washington's eastern shore. The city is bisected by Interstate 405 running north-south, and the southern portion is crossed from west to east by Interstate 90.

South of I-90 the city’s Eastgate neighborhood continúes up Cougar Mountain. To the west of Cougar Mountain, Bellevue includes Coal Creek and Factoría, an unincorporated neighborhood.

Bellevue is bordered by the cities of Kirkland to the northwest and Redmond to the northeast along the Overlake neighborhood. Across the short East Channel Bridge, I-90 connects Bellevue to Mercer Island to the southwest. Issaquah is to the east, down I-90 at the south end of Lake Sammamish. The city is also bordered to the west by the extremely wealthy suburbs of Medina, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point and Yarrow Point.

[editar] Transportación

Bellevue is the main Eastside hub for both the local transit authority, King County Metro, and Sound Transit, the regional transit system. The Bellevue Transit Center, which serves both Metro and Sound buses, is located in the heart of the downtown business district and is connected to Interstate 405 by NE 6th St. and a direct-access Texas T HOV ramp. Local buses run into Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah, Renton, and the University District; regional buses go to Bothell, Lynnwood, Everett, Seattle, Renton, Kent, Auburn and Federal Way, among other cities.

The East Link light rail line is planned to run from Seattle through Mercer Island and Bellevue before ending in Redmond. A package including this and other road and transit projects will go before voters in November of 2007. However, transportation systems are not planned and built in a vacuum, and the light-rail proposal is competing with other Puget Sound area projects for funding.

Among the various proposals under consideration is a Sound Transit (ST) / Regional Transportation Improvement District (RTID) package tentatively to be put before the voters in 2007. The joint Sound Transit / RTID seeks to avoid the classic roads vs rail debate and fund light-rail completion north in Seattle as well as East Link. There are also plans to expand I-405 along most of the urbanized length, a replacement of the SR-520 Bridge across Lake Washington, and the replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle. The financial uncertainty of the area's numerous transportation projects reflect the political fragmentation of the Puget Sound area. What is becoming apparent are the increasing costs associated with the central Puget Sound's regional transportation infrastructure.

[editar] Gobierno y política

Bellevue has a non-partisan council-manager form of government, with seven council members elected at large for staggered four-year terms. The city council selects a mayor from among its members, who serves as council chair but has no veto power. As of 2006, the mayor is Grant Degginger and the city manager is Steve Sarkozy.

The position of mayor is largely ceremonial in Bellevue because the city manager runs the city's day-to-day operations. The mayor runs council meetings, helps choose the issues that get on the council's meeting agendas, and serves as the city's most visible spokesperson.

In the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Bellevue residents cast 57.10% of their votes for Democrat John Kerry [1].

[editar] Educación

Bellevue is home to City University and Bellevue Community College.

The city hosts the Bellevue School District, with four main public high schools: Bellevue High School, Newport High School, Interlake High School, and Sammamish High School. All four were included in Newsweek's listing of the Best High Schools in America in 2005 (measured by the number of AP tests taken divided by the number of seniors), with the first three ranked in the top 50. Bellevue also has two alternative high schools, International School (which also made the list) and Robinswood High School.

At the elementary level, Bellevue is home to the Eastside's only Waldorf Education, at Three Cedars School.

[editar] Economía

With its immediate proximity to Redmond, home of Microsoft, and direct highway access to Seattle via Interstate 90 and Washington State Route 520, Bellevue is now home to the headquarters of many small and large businesses. Many of these are technology companies, most started in the 1990s. The city has numerous thriving commercial districts. It also immediately borders the tiny but extremely affluent Lake Washington “Gold Coast” district (Medina, Hunts Point, Clyde Hill, and Yarrow Point), whose residents include Bill Gates and control a large portion of the local wealth.

Companies headquartered or with major operations in Bellevue include:

180 Solutions, Inc. - "Permission based" marketing software.
5TH Cell - A video game developer that works on handheld, mobile and PC.
ArenaNet - PC game developer famous for Guild Wars; many ArenaNet employees used to work for Blizzard Entertainment.
Bocada – leading provider of enterprise data protection management software.
Brio Realty – A national real estate company that utilices the internet to deliver better home buying experiences for its customers.
Centeris - Leader in the Windows to Linux migration software industry.
Coinstar, Inc. - Owner and operator of coin-exchanging kiosks found in supermarkets.
Drugstore.com - A leading online pharmacy and information site for health, beauty, wellness, personal care, and pharmacy products.
Eddie Bauer - Is relocating its Headquarters from Redmond, WA to a 28-story office tower at Lincoln Square, which will be completed in mid-2007. It will share this tower with Microsoft's North American Sales Headquarters.
Expedia – The world’s leading online travel company.
InfoSpace - A growing Internet private-label search engine and online directory that survived the dot.com bust of the 1990s. It’s reemerging in the mid 2000’s with a mobile entertainment offering.
Microsoft - Recently announced that it will lease the top 15 floors of a 28 story office tower being built at Lincoln Square, across the street from Bellevue Square. They will relocate their North American Sales Group Headquarters to the building and will share it with Eddie Bauer's world Headquarters. (Microsoft Pacific Northwest District already occupies space in Bellevue at Civica Office Commons.) Seattle Times Article
Paccar Inc – A multinational technology company that manufactures heavy duty Class 8 trucks (Semis) sold around the world under the Kenworth, Peterbilt, and Foden nameplates.
ShareBuilder - An online broker allowing investors to automatically and regularly invest in stocks and ETFs, even in small amounts.
Symetra - Life insurance company.
T-Mobile – Headquarters for their US operations are located in Factoría, a neighborhood of Bellevue. They operate an all-digital, national wireless phone network, and a Wi-Fi network with over 6,000 public locations. Employs Catherine Zeta-Jones as its international spokesperson.
Uievolution - A mobile software company (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Square-Enix).
Valve Corporation – A video game developer made famous by its first product, Half-Life.
WizKids - Non-electronic game developer producing everything from collectible miniatures games to board games.

[editar] Demografía

As of the census of 2000, there were 112,344 people, 45,836 households, and 29,060 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,411.4/km² (3,563.6/mi²). There were 48,396 housing units at an average density of 607.7/km² (1,574.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 74.33% White, 1.99% African American, 0.32% Native American, 17.39% Asian, 0.23% Pacific Islander, 2.54% from other races, and 3.19% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.32% of the population. Bellevue residents are known as Bellevueites.

There were 45,836 households out of which 27.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% were married couples living together, 7.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.6% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.93.

In the city the population was spread out with 21.1% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 25.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 98.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.6 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $62,338, and the median income for a family was $76,868. Males had a median income of $56,456 versus $37,124 for females. The per capita income for the city was $36,905. About 3.8% of families and 5.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 6.3% of those age 65 or over.

[editar] Cultura

Bellevue is the site of the popular annual Bellevue Arts & Crafts Fair, held since 1947 at the end of July.

The Bellevue Arts Museum first opened in 1975, then moved to Bellevue Square in 1983. In 2001 the museum moved into its own building, designed by Steven Holl. The museum subsequently ran into financial difficulties and was forced to close to the public in 2003. After a lengthy fundraising campaign, a remodel, and a new mission to become a national centre for the fine art of craft and design, the museum re-opened on June 18, 2005 with an exhibition of teapots.

The Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art contains one of the largest doll collections in the world—more than a thousand dolls—displayed on two floors of a Victorian-style building.

Opened in December 2005, Bellevue’s newest museum to date is KidsQuest Children’s Museum. Located in Factoría Mall, a shopping complex in the midst of a major remodel, its primary visitors are mothers and care givers with children from pre-crawlers to 12 years of age. Its 10,000 square foot space houses play and discovery areas, exhibits, offices, educational activities and classroom space.

The biennial Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition draws thousands of visitors to the Downtown Park to view up to 46 three-dimensional artworks from artists around the country.

Bellevue is rapidly growing in size and diversity. As of August 2006, latest census estimates show Bellevue has a higher percentage of nonwhite residents than Seattle. Nearly a third of the city's residents are foreign-born, up from a quarter five years ago. Bellevue has the highest percentage of foreign-born residents among major cities in the state. In 2005, 32% of residents are nonwhite. The largest communities come from China, India, Russia and Mexico, attracted to business and tech industry jobs, manual labor jobs, quality schools and parks.

25% of the city's residents identify themselves as Asian, a rise from 17% in 2000, the highest in Washington state. East Indian and Chinese communities have doubled in size since 2000.

[editar] Deportes

Bellevue is home to the American Basketball Association team, the Bellevue Blackhawks. The Blackhawks in 2005, despite being ranked 13th in the league, made it to the championship game in front of 15,000 fans in Little Rock, Arkansas.