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A Eastside is the collective term for the eastern suburbs of Seattle, Washington. A major communities come Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah, and Mercer Island. Others include Beaux Arts Village, Bothell, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Juanita/Totem Lake, Kenmore, Medina, Newcastle, Renton, Sammamish, Woodinville, and Yarrow Point.
A Eastside is attached to Seattle per Evergreen Point Floating Bridge from Medina (Washington State Route 520) and the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Third Lake Washington Bridge from Mercer Island (Interstate 90). These are besides served by Interstate 405, a loop route of Interstate 5, which runs to the east of Lake Washington from Tukwila to Lynnwood.
As a major U.s. technology center, a Eastside is personal to numbers of big technology corporations, principally in the software and wireless industries, including Microsoft, T-Mobile USA, Nintendo of America, the previous AT&T Wireless, Western Wireless, Vulcan Ventures, Expedia.com, Attachmate, and Infospace. Corporations rather Boeing, Verizon Wireless, Walt Disney, and FOX Sports have major divisional or regional agents too in the Eastside. Numbers of one industries' celebrated power, like Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer, and Craig McCaw live in some of the supplementary exclusive suburbia in the area.
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