Redmond, WA
This suburb of Seattle may be home to Microsoft but there is nothing micro or soft about this place. While only 57,000 people live full-time in Redmond, the population surges by 110% during the day when 90,000 employees and contractors working at the Microsoft Redmond campus and other tech firms descend on the strip malls and leafy business parks of the east side. If you factor in the surrounding east side cities a bouldering gym could have access to 250,000 people. The median household income in Redmond is an astonishing $90,493! They could be spending all that money at your new bouldering gym.
The climber community is about as ready-made as you’ll find. Seattleites and residents of the east side have had access to climbing gyms for decades, and the outdoor opportunities are pretty good around the Sound. But the gloomy weather of the northwest keeps all but anti-social mountaineers close to town and psyched to climb on plastic.
Other cities to look at in the region:
“Silicon Valley”, CA
Eugene, OR
Chico, CA
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