Redmond Town Center

So much improvement with no motor traffic and multiple colorful mural display and tons of good stores for kids and adults. Great design and location. I come here more than Bellevue Square. Christmas carousal here is da BEST! bar-​none better than here! What blessings!

Redmond town center… This place used to be really popular years ago. Not a single vacant spot for a store and it was always packed… Well as packed as a open mall can get. Then it took a dive and I thought that it would be deserted at one point. And I feel like right now it’s Kindve sitting in mediocrity. You have some name brand stores that are new or have weathered the storm. And they recently re did the entire square which personally I don’t like. Why make more room for people to walk when there’s already enough empty space? It’s like a dust ball in the desert now. One of the few things keeping this place alive is RTC Exotics. Aka lambos and Starbucks. Don’t get me wrong I like the occasional walk through here. And often I’ll get dragged into uncles by my nerd companions with little or no protest, but I don’t feel like it’s that gratifying of an outing to stay here too long anymore. Then again it could be just the weather since this place still seems to perk up once spring/​Summer comes around. It’s doing well enough to see some growth and I’m glad for that. I’ll be here weekly for exotics season and beyond that who knows! Come and check it out for yourself and make your own decisions.

Redmond Town Center is going through puberty. The place hasn’t really figured out what kind of name it wants to have for itself. It’s in a good place for consumers, but the stores don’t really do it for me or anyone else at that. Compared to Bellevue Square, I usually see like 5% of the people there in Redmond Town Center. I do like how Redmond is going through it’s changes though, to see what will work for them and to create an image for them.
For December it seems like they have some cute events. They brought in a plastic ice rink, a merry go round and even brought Santa for the kids to take pictures with. Once Redmond figures out what kind of stores it wants to bring in, I think it’ll be a great place to go to for shopping.
If you’re around the area, check out Redmond Town Center. It doesn’t have much, but there are small shops to check out. :)

This is a really cute little shopping center. It has a variety of different stores and a couple places to eat. It’s a nice place to just stroll through. It’s mostly low-​mid range price stores. Nice place to check out if in the area.

Redmond Town Center is a nice, but limited, shopping center. It lacks the scale and selection of other area malls like Bellevue Square and Alderwood, so If you want «everything,» this is not the place to go.
It is a good place to go hang out with the kids, especially in summer, with ice cream, froyo, lots of outdoor seating, and fountains and a musical play structure for the little ones. It’s a great place to stop in for dinner and a little shopping. If you want to find a gift and don’t feel like battling traffic into a big mall, it’s a good place to go.
There is only one large department store, Macy’s, and it’s a small one. There are several decent housewares stores and a good REI. I like how the mall is dog-​friendly, with dog-​friendly stores indicated on the map by little pawprints. There’s plenty of parking, so it’s easy to get in and out fairly quickly.

Redmond Town Center is a very nice outdoor mall. Parts are covered, and there are umbrellas around in various spots for your use in case it’s raining. It’s always been very tidy and clean when I have gone, and not overly crowded. It is mostly smaller specialty shops, but there is a Macy’s and an REI. There are lots of places to eat and plenty of free parking. It is dog and bike friendly. They host lots of events, including a skating rink in the winter. There are nail salons, tanning, and dentists — it’s a great place to go, spend a day, and get everything done at once!

How would you like to be shopping in the clothing department at Macy’s (or the cookware dept, or any department) and have a dirty, slobbering 90 lb. dog sniffing around your heels? I love dogs, and always had them growing up. But they DON’T belong in stores! I was in Macy’s with an armful of clothing to try on when it’s owner was shopping through the same rack area and didn’t care that her dog was having a hay day tracking white dog hairs all over the black pants I was going to try on. What the? It was totally inappropriate. Dogs are also allowed in the fitting rooms!
When I asked a salesperson about it, she said the property managers at Redmond Town Center welcomes dogs in their stores b/​c it’s a «dog walking area». Well here’s a newsflash — Redmond is actually more popularly known as the «bike city of Washington», so I guess it’s ok to ride my muddy commuter bike through the store?
Another salesperson said she’s witnessed dogs peeing and crapping on the floors. Dogs in stores should be limited to certified service dogs only. The others can be left at home, in the car, or outside the store with a fresh bowl of water. The dogs themselves probably don’t enjoy being in a busy store with strange surroundings.
It’s too bad the Redmond Town Center management doesn’t have more common sense. Sure, it might please 1 person out of 100. But the friends I’ve spoken with (including dog owners) and myself will shop at Bellevue Square instead where they’ve got the backbone to say «service dogs only».

This place is most uncomfortable. It feels like they said, «rich Microsoft people live here, so let’s build something to take their money.» The results are predictably shameless and awful.
Let’s deal with the uncomfortable topic first: no one shops here. It’s thoroughly deserted, especially for a mall with high-​profile stores (Macy’s, REI, GameStop, and others). There’s a variety of reasons for this. Perhaps most importantly, the place is randomly located. Who would go out of their way to visit it? Redmond is so disaggregated that most people don’t live downtown. If you’re around 148^th or farther to the west, you’re better off visiting Bellevue Square, with its wider selection. The lack of people begets further declines. Having experienced the weird emptiness previously, I’m not inclined to visit regularly.
The place is relatively modern, and quite clean. Too modern, though, and too clean. The place doesn’t feel lived-​in. It still feels plasticky, artificial. There’s no sense of actual humans coming here and having interesting experiences. It’s much more transactional; you come here to pick something up, then you leave. The attempts to introduce Christmas cheer with a carousel and skating rink, while seemingly well-​intentioned, feel forced.
The selection is quite good for a relatively small place, although the shops seems oriented toward middle aged people with thoroughly uninteresting lives. They seemed to have taken a caricature (or is it a demographic profile?) of the typical Microsoft employee, and built a mall around that. (If you haven’t noticed, there’s a trend of artificiality and pandering at this place).
If you absolutely need something, you can find here. That’s the only reason to visit.
More than anything, Redmond Town Center feels pathetic. It reflects the soullessness of consumerism, and of Redmond.

This is a small outdoor shopping center in Redmond. I don’t particularly like the stores very much here. The selection is small, and you can find a lot of these stores in other better shopping complexes. There are random food establishments but not really a food court here per se.
The REI store and the Uncle’s Games store are pretty nice. I am not fond of the rather small Macy’s here though.

Outdoor shopping area with lots of shopping and food options. Parking is mostly in the garages for free. Some street parking. Has fun sound garden to play on. It would take some time walking around to get a feel for what you really want to shop/​dine. We will be back

Take hyw 202. off the 405. Its a 2 lane hyw (1 lane each way) with may wineries & even a whiskey distillery! Very touristy if you have the time to explore. By the time you get to RTC. youll be relaxed & you ll enjoy the slower pace of the town. Slower paced mall w a friendly small town feel. Found covered parking easily & nice walk about was at hand.

I’m rarely on the eastside but it just so happened that I was and found myself here. I wasn’t overly excited at the shops. In fact, I found most of the folks a little aggro in their big SUVs as I tried to find a parking space. Maybe it was because folks were vying for close spots but anyway…
It’s open air so I imagine during our rainier times, folks don’t throng here. I found the common areas clean and I had good experiences in the shops we entered. That said, I wouldn’t make a trip out there just to come here unless they had the sole shop in the Seattle area.

I haven’t been here in a while (babies really are life-​changing!), and I was super impressed with Redmond Town Center this trip! Last time I was here, it seemed like barely any shops were even worth my time browsing, but this time I glanced around and there seemed to be lots of new spots that I actually like to shop at! Excellent! It wasn’t super crowded either like how Bellevue Square always seems to be which was a nice change too; but it does appear to be doing well too! The parking was more crowded when we were leaving (midafternoon), but not insane.
I do miss Ruby’s though… love that place. At least there does seem to be a good variety of shops for actual shopping if not great places to dine though!
I can definitely see myself coming back here… hopefully sooner than the time between my last visit! Great place to shop and people watch!

On a warm, summer day, this is pretty much the place to be. VERY kid friendly, with a playzone, water-​spouts, Coldstone ice cream, and a Gymboree store/​play zone that has ‘open play’ hours. If our daughter gets tuckered out from the excitement and I get a few hours to get some sunshine and/​or shopping in, that’s a win in my book.
Parking is easy. There are a ton of parking garages that I have NEVER seen full.
Decent selection of stores, but seems to be more food-​related what with multiple restaurants on the upper deck and sweet shops scattered around.
There’s a pretty popular movie theatre in the complex (ipix? or something), as well as another one maybe a mile away that more run-​of-​the-​mill.
All in all, it’s a bit of a hike for us to get to, so we don’t always go, and weather is a determining factor (being an outdoor mall), but if we need a getaway, this is a good option.

The place is usually clean and the management makes an effort, but they are missing some of the things that could make it great.
First, there’s never enough parking. It always seems like there are half a dozen people circling around, looking for spaces. Not good. The spaces themselves are really small… it’s easy to get your car dinged here if even one person in a row parks imperfectly.
The stores close too early. Many close at 8 pm, even on summer weekends! That’s insane. The businesses that stay open later clean up but I wish there was more consistency. The same goes for the restrooms. Even though a few stores are open as late as midnight, the restrooms are closed by 9 pm. That leaves a three-​hour window of discomfort or disaster unless you shlep over to Claim Jumper or BJ’s Brewhouse.
This Uncle’s Games location is the best in the state.
The Victoria’s Secret location should be punished by the environment police for leaving their doors propped open to the outside when it is over 80 °F out. It is impossible to air-​condition the city of Redmond, and you should stop trying. Also, lay off on the perfume! I love their underwear but find some of the practices of this store challenging.
I really wish we could get a less-​expensive family restaurant where Ruby’s used to be. There are some options now, but Ruby’s filled a niche which has been empty since they left. Is the rent too high? It’s certainly a good location… the competition is either ethnic, crappy (Claim Jumper), or slightly more expensive and sometimes not family-​friendly (BJ’s, Red Robin, Spazzo’s, Matt’s). I hope this changes soon, given that Red Robin is shifting back to its tavern roots in June 2013, but I’m not optimistic since it’s already been years.
The bears and the fountains in the center court are great. Remember when everyone said that nobody would come to Redmond Town Center? Ha ha, joke’s on them, as RTC has become a real part of this changing city.

I come here for specific things, like hey I need a new bra, I’m gonna go to VS. I don’t ever come here just to peruse the stores cause there aren’t many. But they do have some good stores that I come to every now and again. Nice mall. Seems empty most of the time, which is nice if you want to find parking.

A true three-​star A-​OK retail establishment. Lots of nice stores, lots of decent lunch spots if you live/​work in the area. Cool theater – very well-​appointed. There’s also a regular multiplex, if memory serves.
Parking isn’t too bad, at least outside of peak lunch and dinner hours. There’s a flow to the streets between parking lots, and the overlooking walkways from the second floor, that aims to give it a bit of architectural character. It’s really just an extra-​nice mall, but at least they’re trying.
Everything here is a bit overpriced, and the general attitude of the place varies from friendly and professional to flaky and occasionally snooty, depending on which business you’re in. But it’s clean and well-​run, and some of these stores come in pretty handy sometimes.

This is a great outdoor mall, especially in nice weather. It definitely seems to be way busier during summer months, but I don’t mind shopping here in the rain either. There are lots of stores, including a really nice Macy’s. My favorite store here is Eastside Dog, which is dog friendly like the entire mall.
There are lots of parking options here– several lots and garages to choose from, along with street parking (on the rare occasion you can find that available!). This is also one of the cleanest malls of this type I have been to, which I have come to expect in Redmond!

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I love Redmond Town Center!
The town center has lots of stores and fun to walk around!
Lots of options for restaurant and clothes shopping!
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I only walked through the town center to find a restaurant.(which by the way was outstanding). I need to come back and check this place out. It looked really nice and had some fantastic shopping options.