Ahead of the opening of the Marymoor Village light rail station this Saturday, a cluster of mid-rise residential development has been built in one of Redmond’s newest residential neighborhoods. Created as a growth hub in 2017, Marymoor Village center sits between Marymoor Park and busy Redmond Way. The center is a part of the larger Southeast Redmond neighborhood and shares much of the industrial character seen in the rest of the neighborhood.
Like much of the rest of the region, Redmond has chosen to dedicate much of its historically industrial land for residential and lower impact commercial uses. In the city’s last Comprehensive Plan update eight years ago, lower density mid-rise apartments were allowed in Marymoor Village. These potential mid-rises are allowed to be up to five or six stories tall. Restrictions on the amount of square feet in buildings have also led to a very broken up form for the newly completed buildings, with their forms fragmented into distinct sections.
The first of the newest multifamily cluster, Spectra at Marymoor (17620 NE 69th Court) is a large mixed-use complex spread across three five to six-story buildings. Separated by pedestrian pathways, the three buildings contain 450 residential units, 15,285 square feet of retail space, and 515 parking stalls. The project was completed in phases across 2022 and 2023.
In 2024, The Piper opened across from Marymoor Park at 17305 NE 67th Court. The two-building five-story apartment complex contains 284 units and 258 parking stalls. In 2025, neighboring The Spoke opened at 17565 NE 67th Court. The two-building five-story mixed-use complex contains 211 units, 12,234 square feet of commercial space, and 196 parking stalls.
Farther out in the Marymoor Village center, some older multifamily development had been completed and in progress before the establishment of the center. In 2002, Reflections by Windsor (6318 East Lake Sammamish Parkway NE) opened its seven-building three-story apartment complex with 230 units and 310 parking stalls. Between 2015 and 2019, Marymoor Ridge’s seven-building complex with 44 condominiums at 5900 185th Court NE opened. In between these two, The Bond Apartments’ two-building six-story complex with 139 units and 172 parking stalls opened in 2019 at 6180 East Lake Sammamish Parkway NE.
Beyond Marymoor Village
The broader neighborhood of Southeast Redmond has also broadly been going through its own 30-year transformation. Farther out in the neighborhood, traditional single family and low-density multifamily sprawl has claimed vast swathes of the neighborhood. Closer into the station area, there has been some denser multifamily development.
At the northern end of Southeast Redmond on NE Union Hill Road, the seven-story Pure Redmond Apartments opened in 2016 with 105 units, 5,050 square feet of retail space, and 161 parking stalls. On the eastern periphery of the neighborhood, a wave of large low-rise multifamily has added another 600+ units.
Quantifying Marymoor Village and Southeast Redmond’s Growth
The latest cluster of close-in development to Marymoor Village station has added 945 units, over 27,000 square feet of commercial space, and 969 parking stalls. Including the older development in the center, the unit and parking numbers shoot up to 1,358 housing units and 1,451 parking stalls.
The rest of Southeast Redmond has seen another 630 units, 5,050 square feet of commercial space, and over 800 parking stalls built since 2000. In all, Southeast Redmond has seen just shy of 2,000 units, over 32,000 square feet of commercial space, and over 2,200 parking stalls built since 2000.
What’s next for Marymoor Village and Southeast Redmond
Outside of a seemingly inactive master planning at 18005 NE 68th Street and talks of a cricket stadium in Marymoor, there are no active large multifamily or commercial planning happenings in Southeast Redmond. Developers may be waiting for zoning updates associated with the Redmond 2050 comprehensive plan update. Major upzones are anticipated to come to Southeast Redmond.
Marymoor Village center’s zoned capacity is set to rocket with the allowance of 12-story buildings, up from five to six stories today, in much of the center. Restrictive building square footage maximums also seem set for removal. Southeast Redmond also appears to be set to see broad rezoning to allow mixed-use development in the commercial district northeast of Marymoor Village station.
Much of that is in line with the future of Downtown Redmond, setting up Marymoor Village and Southeast Redmond for an urban makeover that’ll create a miniature urban corridor between Southeast Redmond and Downtown. That corridor is already taking shape. Between the two abutting neighborhoods, over 8,500 housing units and shy of half a million square feet of commercial space have been built since 1999. That’s a solid foundation for the city’s newest light rail stations.
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