Good morning. Issue two of the Redmond Dispatch: five minutes on what moved in Redmond this week, one item for your own neighborhood, the market in three numbers, and one practical thing for the house.
Redmond this week
The mayor's two-year budget gets a public hearing Tuesday, October 20. Mayor Angela Birney's preliminary 2027–2028 budget funds a rebuild of Fire Station 11, a rebuilt Teen Center, the Maintenance and Operations Center redevelopment, RedLink and a new department for permitting. The hearing is at 7 PM at City Hall, 15670 NE 85th Street; council deliberations start Thursday, October 22, at 6 PM, and adoption is expected November 10. Comments go to [email protected]. City of Redmond · Preliminary budget
Two new Planning Commission seats are open, with applications due November 6. The commission recommends changes to the comprehensive plan and zoning code to council, from the tree code rewrite to path projects, and meets at 7 PM on the second and fourth Wednesdays. Commissioners live in city limits and serve unpaid. Apply at redmond.gov/Commissions. Planning Commission memo · Commission role
A free salmon walk runs on the Sammamish River Trail, October 24 and 25. From 10 AM to 2 PM both days: a walk on the salmon's journey with a scavenger hunt for prizes, and a booth at City Hall where Go Redmond hands out pre-loaded ORCA cards while supplies last. City of Redmond
Trick-or-treat goes indoors at Marymoor Village on Saturday, October 24. From 4:30 to 7:30 PM, kids go room to room for candy, with crafts, at the Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village, 6505 176th Avenue NE; register through the city. The same evening, 5 to 9 PM, a five-minute haunted house runs for ages 12 and up, tickets per person online or at the door. Trick or Treat · Haunted House
Your neighborhood
Bear Creek. Evans Creek is being moved away from the industrial area north of NE Union Hill Road to give salmon better habitat, with 12 acres of native planting and two new bridges on the Evans Creek Trail. The $19 million stormwater-funded project is in design; the city expects construction to start in 2027 and finish in 2028. City of Redmond
Sold near you: 1 home closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.97M; the fastest went from listing to closing in 72 days.
Downtown. Anderson Park, 7802 168th Avenue NE, is the city's first and oldest park: 2.8 acres with historic cabins you can rent, a brick plaza with an outdoor stage, a playground, picnic shelter, and 20 community garden beds added in spring 2025. City of Redmond
Sold near you: 17 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $750K (range $350K to $1.48M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 18 days.
Education Hill. The addition at Redmond High School, built where the former administration wing was demolished last winter, is scheduled to open fully in fall 2027, with some areas usable as early as spring. It is funded by the 2022 capital levy. Lake Washington School District
Sold near you: 14 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.02M (range $400K to $1.75M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 27 days.
Grass Lawn. The Grass Lawn Park parking lot on 148th Avenue NE is rebuilt: new pavement, curb ramps and sidewalks, new storm drains, and 22 trees replaced. The old sycamores and plane trees had pushed roots into the pipes and pavement; Redpoint maples, hornbeams and magnolias now grow in structural soil. City of Redmond
Sold near you: 21 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $700K (range $198K to $3.50M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 18 days.
Idylwood. Idylwood Park, 3650 West Lake Sammamish Parkway NE, is the only free recreational access on Lake Sammamish. Car-top boats launch from the small ramp, anglers fish from the pier or the beach, and the beach has no lifeguards. City of Redmond
Sold near you: no closed sales within 0.8 mile in the last 45 days.
North Redmond. NE 124th Street began as a cow path and was a developed road by 1964, and one of the neighborhood's original 1909 homesteads still stands. The neighborhood also has access to the Puget Power Trail, a 3.1-mile soft-surface route between the Sammamish River Trail and Farrel-McWhirter Park, open to hikers, mountain bikes and horses. North Redmond · Puget Power Trail
Sold near you: 10 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.04M (range $291K to $2.30M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 22 days.
Overlake. The Overlake Village Pedestrian Bridge carries walkers and riders from Overlake Village Station across SR 520 to the 520 Bike Trail. Look up on the way over: "Verdant," by Seattle artist Leo Saul Berk, is 1,026 vertical louvers with more than 156,000 hand-painted marks that form a pixelated Northwest forest. City of Redmond
Sold near you: no closed sales within 0.8 mile in the last 45 days.
Sammamish Valley. The 116th Street Blue Trail is a water trail: a beach launch for hand-carried, non-motorized boats on the Sammamish River, with parking at the Sammamish River Trail lot at NE 116th Street and York Road. City of Redmond
Sold near you: 2 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.17M; the fastest went from listing to closing in 25 days.
Southeast Redmond. A change on Wednesday's Planning Commission agenda adds a shared-use path to the planned new NE 72nd Street east of 188th Avenue NE, alongside curb, sidewalk, lighting and storm drainage; the project is estimated at $2.1 million and listed as near term. Planning Commission memo
Sold near you: 3 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $795K (range $795K to $3.40M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 64 days.
Willows / Rose Hill. The old NE Rose Hill Connections Map is one of five neighborhood path maps, with Bear Creek, Education Hill, North Redmond and Southeast Redmond, that Wednesday's Planning Commission agenda proposed to repeal. Planned walking and biking connections now live in the Transportation Master Plan's Pedestrian Plan maps, which replace them without changes. Planning Commission memo
Sold near you: 7 homes closed within 0.8 mile of the neighborhood center in the last 45 days, median $1.68M (range $415K to $3.05M); the fastest went from listing to closing in 34 days.
The market in 60 seconds
Across city of Redmond listings in ZIPs 98052 and 98053, the median home sold for $1.30M over the last 30 days (76 closings; single-family alone $1.475M). The median home took 61 days from listing to closing, and there are 4.1 months of inventory on the market.
The same as Monday's first issue. Single-family homes are a little tighter, at 3.8 months, with 203 of the 310 active listings. Under three months favors sellers and above six favors buyers, so Redmond sits in balanced territory; 9% of homes closed above asking.
One useful thing: before the first windstorm
Fall windstorms are when the power goes out. The city's guidance: keep enough food, water and supplies for a few days, ideally two weeks, with one gallon of water per person per day. Sign up for AlertRedmond, the city's emergency notification system, and in a widespread outage tune a battery radio to the city's emergency station, AM 1650, which also streams online. AlertRedmond sign-up · Community preparedness
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