Plans & Projects

The Parks and Recreation Department provides a variety of health and wellness and lifelong learning programs. The City is responsible for developing, staffing and providing facilities for many of the programs.

Cost of Service and Cost Recovery Policy Update

The City is currently developing an updated Cost of Service and Cost Recovery policy to present to City Council for adoption in spring 2022. This work is connected to the Cost of Service and Cost Recovery Methodology Report that was adopted in 2018.

• Cost of Service and Cost Recovery Methodology Report (Adopted 2018)
• Community Conversation about Recreation and Aquatics Needs

The City of Redmond invites the community to attend a virtual workshop to provide input on the community benefit of parks and recreation programs and services. The virtual workshop will take place on Tuesday, November 30 and involve small-group discussions led by a facilitator.

For more information and to register for one of three virtual sessions, visit www.letsconnectredmond.com/costrecovery or call 425-556-2300 or email guestservices@redmond.gov

The Parks and Recreation Department provides arts and cultural programming. Arts programming is offered as part of the City’s special events, as well as through partnerships with local arts, culture and historical organizations.

Redmond’s Erratic

The Erratic, a large scale sculpture by artist John Fleming has been sited at the Gilman landing. This Gilman Landing site was identified in the Redmond Central Connector Master Plan as a “landing” or area for larger community gathering and activation. It is also along the railroad corridor at the site of the Redmond depot, so it pays homage to Redmond’s history, with an emphasis on the railroad corridor history with the primary materials reclaimed from the railroad tracks. The Erratic is a sculpture commissioned in 2013 for the Redmond Central Connector and Redmond’s Centennial. The Erratic reflects Redmond’s history and future:

• The metal fabric is fabricated from the metal brackets that attached the rails to the railroad ties,
• The shape and namesake of the Erratic reflects Redmond’s geological history when the city and region were covered by glaciers, and
• The glass panels and motion-activated lighting simulate a geode and honors our current and future focus on technology.

Redmond Public Art Plan

The Public Art Plan provides a comprehensive vision for public art in Redmond that will inspire a new generation of creative placemaking in the public realm including public buildings, the streetscape, landmarks, parks, and open spaces, pathways and trails; and water quality infrastructure. This Plan was developed in collaboration with consultants Ellen Sollod and Carolyn Law, in conjunction with an update to the City’s Park, Art, Recreation, Culture, and Conservation (PARCC) Plan, which serves as the Capital Improvement Plan and Strategic Plan for the Redmond Parks and Recreation Department. Both the Public Art Plan and PARCC Plan are scheduled for adoption in May 2017.

View the Redmond Public Art Plan (PDF).

Downtown Cultural Corridor Master Plan

Redmond aspires to become an arts destination known for high-quality cultural arts centered in the Downtown Cultural Corridor that includes:

• Cultural arts around every corner, 18 hours a day
• An exceptional built environment
• An anchor cultural institution
• A downtown that’s home to artists
• Destination quality artwork
• A place where art can flourish

View the final version of the Downtown Cultural Corridor Master Plan (PDF).

Art Experiences as Key Elements

This plan augments the Cleveland Streetscape and Downtown Couplet Conversion projects by suggesting art experiences as key elements of the great streets strategy. This plan also advances the notion of a "Cultural Corridor" by recommending specific strategies that can be implemented over time to achieve the broader comprehensive plan goals for our urban center. Major strategies include:

• Completing a demonstration art project as part of the Couplet Conversion
• Securing a sustainable funding source to implement this plan
• Working with developers as partners in implementing this plan
• Addressing code issues that may help in implementing the recommendations
• Developing temporary and permanent platforms for art in the urban center

Background

Cleveland Street is being designed as the "main street" for Downtown Redmond, and the City has developed a concept of "great streets" as an important strategy to achieve this vision. This strategy reinforces the Couplet Corridor as a destination and the heart of Downtown.

The Redmond Arts Commission produced a Strategic Plan in 2009 that formulated a vision of Redmond as "A Community Inspired and Connected by Arts and Culture." These strategies include creating a cultural focal point in Downtown by developing iconic pieces of art as well as supporting the creation of a cultural corridor.

These concepts were later incorporated into the Urban Centers section of Redmond’s Comprehensive Plan. The vision for Redmond’s urban centers emphasizes the roles for art and culture in creating community and economic activity.

The Downtown Cultural Corridor Master Plan provides a synergy between these three goals – the great street, cultural corridor, and urban center – and suggests how city capital investments and re-development of the Downtown can support both Downtown’s larger vision and change and growth in the arts.

The Downtown Cultural Corridor

The focus of the Downtown Cultural Corridor is Redmond Way and Cleveland Street and the connecting streets that provide north-south connections. The Master Plan proposes the area designated in the Downtown East-West Corridor Study as the boundaries for the Downtown Cultural Corridor. From East to West, the area stretches from the intersection of Redmond Way and Avondale Way to where the Trestle Bridge crosses Redmond Way. From North to South, the area begins at NE 80th Street and NE 79th Street south to NE 76th Street and includes the Redmond Central Connector.

The Parks, Arts, Recreation, Culture and Conservation (PARCC) Plan is the functional plan for the Parks and Recreation Department and serves as the strategic plan. The plan is updated every six years.

• 2017
• 2010