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Bellevue (/ ˈ b ɛ l v j uː / BEL-vew) is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle. It is the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, and the fifth-largest city in Washington. It has variously been characterized as a satellite city, a suburb, a boomburb ...
PSE was formed in 1997 when two of its largest ancestral companies – Puget Sound Power & Light Company and Washington Energy Company – merged. [21] Puget Sound Power and Light was itself preceded by several companies that were founded in the 1870s and 1880s and built the region's first hydroelectric plant at Snoqualmie Falls in 1898. [22]
Public utility districts are regulated by Title 54 of the Revised Code of Washington. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Most PUDs provide electricity; some provide other services in addition. The first PUD was Mason No. 1, created by voters on November 6, 1934, serving as of 2017 [update] fewer than 5,000 customers.
It is the second largest city center in Washington state, with more than 50,000 employees and 12,000 residents. [2] Geographically centered near the heart of the Puget Sound region , downtown Bellevue is a regional growth center offering over 9 million square feet (840,000 m 2 ) of Class A office space, various major retail and entertainment ...
Bel-Red was developed in the 1960s for warehouses and manufacturing facilities, and was named for its location between the cities of Bellevue and Redmond. [1]The area was re-zoned to support non-industrial uses in 2009, [2] paving the way for the development of the Spring District, a mixed-use district in the western Bel-Red area.
Bellevue Transit Center (BTC) is a bus station and light rail station in Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. It is the main transit hub for the Eastside of King County, serving 20 routes from King County Metro and Sound Transit Express. The transit center is the western terminus of the RapidRide B Line, which runs east to Redmond.
Lake Bellevue, also called Lake Sturtevant, [3] [1] is a small lake inside the city limits of Bellevue, Washington. Along with Phantom Lake and Larsen Lake , it is one of three small lakes inside the city, which also borders Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish . [ 4 ]
The 2 Line, also known as the East Link Extension, is a light rail line serving the Eastside region of the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.It is part of Sound Transit's Link light rail system and runs for 6.6 miles (10.6 km) in the cities of Bellevue and Redmond.