Downtown Redmond station

{{short description|Future light rail station in Redmond, Washington}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Downtown Redmond

| style = Sound Transit

| type = Link light rail station

| image = Downtown Redmond Station from southwest side, Jan. 2025.jpg

| image_caption = Under construction in January 2025

| address =

| borough = Redmond, Washington

| country = United States

| coordinates = {{coord|47.67224|N|122.120156|W|format=dms|display=inline;title|type:landmark_region:US-WA}}

| owned = Sound Transit

| line =

| platform = 1 island platform

| tracks = 2

| connections =

| structure = Elevated

| parking =

| bicycle =

| accessible = Yes

| opened = {{Show by date|2025|05|10||{{Start date and age|2025|05|10}}|hour=-7}}

| opening = {{Show by date|2025|05|10|{{Start date and age|2025|05|10}}||hour=-7}}

| passengers =

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=Sound Transit|header1=File:Sound Transit Link Light Rail logo.svg|line=2 Line|left=Marymoor Village|type=Redmond}}

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-custom = {{Infobox mapframe |shape=none |line=none |marker=rail-light |marker-color=#{{rcr|Sound Transit|2 Line}} |zoom=15 }}

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Downtown Redmond station is a future Link light rail station on the north side of Redmond Town Center shopping mall in downtown Redmond, Washington. It will be elevated located along Cleveland Street (SR 202) between 164th and 166th avenues.{{cite report |date=July 2011 |title=East Link Project Final Environmental Impact Statement |chapter=Executive Summary |page=ES-51 |url=http://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/projects/eastlink/eis_2011/00_executivesummary.pdf |publisher=Sound Transit |accessdate=May 3, 2016}}{{cite web |title=Downtown Redmond Station |url=https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/downtown-redmond-station |publisher=Sound Transit |accessdate=September 27, 2021}}

The station was originally included in the Sound Transit 2 ballot measure in 2008, but was left out of the East Link Extension after a funding shortfall stemming from the City of Bellevue's desire for a tunneled alignment under Downtown Bellevue.{{cite news |last=Lindblom |first=Mike |date=May 4, 2009 |title=Bellevue eyes Sound Transit train tunnel; Microsoft wants surface route |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/bellevue-eyes-sound-transit-train-tunnel-microsoft-wants-surface-route/ |newspaper=The Seattle Times |accessdate=May 3, 2016}} Sound Transit instead completed environmental reviews and selected a preferred alignment to Downtown Redmond, indefinitely deferring the final segment of East Link until a later date.{{cite press release |date=May 14, 2009 |title=Sound Transit Board identifies preferred East Link light rail route |url=http://www.soundtransit.org/About-Sound-Transit/News-and-events/News-releases/News-release-archive/ELinkPrefAlt |publisher=Sound Transit |accessdate=May 3, 2016}} The Sound Transit 3 ballot measure, passed in 2016, includes $1.1 billion in funding for the two stations in Downtown Redmond, which was planned to open by 2024.{{cite news |last=Demay |first=Daniel |date=June 2, 2016 |title=Sound Transit approves faster timeline for next phases of light rail |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/transportation/article/Sound-Transit-approves-faster-timeline-for-next-7959694.php |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |accessdate=June 30, 2016}} Preliminary engineering on the Redmond extension was approved in February 2016, after being suspended in 2010.{{cite press release |date=February 25, 2016 |title=Sound Transit advances engineering for Federal Way, Redmond light rail extensions |url=http://www.soundtransit.org/About-Sound-Transit/News-and-events/News-releases/sound-transit-advances-engineering-federal-way |publisher=Sound Transit |accessdate=August 31, 2016}}

The station is scheduled to open on May 10, 2025.{{cite news |last=Lindblom |first=Mike |date=January 30, 2025 |title=Here's when two Redmond light rail stations will open this spring |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/heres-when-two-redmond-light-rail-stations-will-open-this-spring/ |work=The Seattle Times |accessdate=January 30, 2025}}{{cite news |last=Belman |first=Brooke |date=August 24, 2023 |title=Get ready for new Link service on the Eastside next spring |url=https://www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/get-ready-new-link-service-eastside-next-spring |work=The Platform |publisher=Sound Transit |accessdate=August 24, 2023}} It includes murals by six artists that were produced by a mosaics studio in Tieton.{{cite news |last=Ochoa |first=Santiago |date=September 6, 2023 |title=Tieton Mosaic making 27 murals for Sound Transit stations in Seattle area |url=https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/tieton-mosaic-making-27-murals-for-sound-transit-stations-in-seattle-area/article_61903cb2-4b52-11ee-813e-aff637c4d455.html |work=Yakima Herald-Republic |accessdate=December 15, 2024}}