Issaquah Highlands

Aerial view of Issaquah Highlands
Looking east on Ellis Drive towards apartments and single-family homes in Issaquah Highlands

Issaquah Highlands is a planned community and mixed-use neighborhood in Issaquah, a suburb of Seattle, Washington, United States. The neighborhood, located northeast of downtown Issaquah at Grand Ridge on the Sammamish Plateau, was planned in the New Urbanism style and opened in 1998 after a decade of planning and construction.

The Issaquah Highlands occupy 2,200 acres (890 ha), of which 490 acres (200 ha) are incorporated into the city and 1,520 acres (620 ha) are preserved as public open space. It plans to have approximately 3,250 residential units, 2.95 million square feet (274,000 m2) of commercial space, and 425,000 square feet (39,500 m2) of retail space upon full build-out.[1] The neighborhood has an approximate population of 9,000 people as of 2015.[2]

  1. ^ "Issaquah Highlands". City of Issaquah, Washington. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  2. ^ "History". Issaquah Highlands. Retrieved October 8, 2018.