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Public Gets First Peek at Plans for New Microsoft Campus

ISSAQUAH, WA-Microsoft Corp. has moved on its Issaquah Highlands campus in fits and starts, impeded by permit and infrastructure issues. In another step forward, the public finally got a view of the concept at a permit hearing this week.

By Janet Parker | Updated on January 16, 2002

ISSAQUAH, WA-For the past few years, the public has been aware of Microsoft’s plans to build as many as 2.9 million sf of office space in a new campus in the Issaquah Highlands.

The software mega-company holds the option on 150 acres in the 2,200-acre master planned community, located at the south end of what is known locally as the Sammamish Plateau. However, at Tuesday night’s city meeting on the review of the project’s permit application, local residents had their first opportunity to see what the sprawling campus could look like when completed.

Microsoft’s Seattle-based architectural firm of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership displayed a model before city officials and 16 Issaquah residents. If built according to the current plans, the campus cut into the forested hilltop north of Interstate 90 would hold 15 buildings — and as many as 3,000 of the Redmond-based behemoth’s employees.

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