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Bellevue, WA is the bonafide definition for an edge city and it will continue to grow. If Orange County and Vancouver, BC had a love child, it would be Bellevue.
Bellevue isn't really an edge city. It's either Seattle's largest suburb or straight up a satellite city depending on who you ask. It's literally right next to Seattle. It was an edge city maybe 10-20 years ago, now not so much as Bellevue is the anchor of the whole eastside now (roughly Bothell to Renton)
An edge city in that region should be more or less on the edge of the Puget Sound development. On the eastside itself, Issaquah is more of an edge city, and as a whole Puyallup or Everett are edge cities
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Bellevue isn't really an edge city. It's either Seattle's largest suburb or straight up a satellite city depending on who you ask. It's literally right next to Seattle. It was an edge city maybe 10-20 years ago, now not so much as Bellevue is the anchor of the whole eastside now (roughly Bothell to Renton)
An edge city in that region should be more or less on the edge of the Puget Sound development. On the eastside itself, Issaquah is more of an edge city, and as a whole Puyallup or Everett are edge cities
wiki says....
An Edge City is an American term for a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown (or central business district) in what had previously been a residential or rural area..............
.......representing a 20th-century urban form unlike that of the 19th-century central downtown. Other terms for the areas include suburban activity centers, megacenters, and suburban business districts.
Not defined by being at the edge and ends of the metro area. Edge cities are places like Tyson's Corner, VA and other Beltway burbs (Bethesda/Silver Spring) with high concentration of retail, midrise and some high rise spawned from mid to late 20th and 21st century development that were rural areas before the interstates were built. They tend to feel pretty corporate and sanitized, with some contemporary glass towers popping up from the surrounding leafy suburban neighborhoods.
By that standard, Bellevue is the bonafide definition of an Edge city.
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Tyson's Corner, or Tysons as it's now called, is undergoing a massive makeover to get read of the mallish/office park/disconnectedness that has existed forever. It's ancient origins were Tyson's Corner Mall. Highrise apartments, condos and office towers are going up and the area is being reconfigured to allow for more of a "downtown" layout. The square footage of office space is among the top ten nationally and the newly completed Metro now has several stops within the district as it continues to be built into Dulles.
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