“Bellevue is big,” wrote Carolyn Casey of The Seattle Times in a story published November 28, 1984, “but it isn’t big enough for the rapidly growing Microsoft Corp., which has announced plans to move from its cramped location straddling Highway 520 in Bellevue to a much larger site in Redmond.”
That much larger site has now been Microsoft’s headquarters for nearly 40 years. Featuring close to 10 million square feet of office space spread over about 500 acres, the Microsoft campus is larger than the campuses of UCLA and the University of Oregon—though it doesn’t quite beat the University of Washington.
The opening and ensuing expansion of the Microsoft
→ Continue reading at SeattleMet