Everett/Snohomish County Development News

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Sorry....

...but keep in mind that the pictures are of areas developed between the 1800s and the 1970s, so I wouldn't really consider Everett (new) sprawl. Marysville (on the other hand), is new sprawl.

[jessejb]

haha its cool.

I grew up in Marysville and never really looked very hard at Everett..I was just wondering how you can reverse the strip mall nature of something like Evergreen Way. Is it even possible? (heheh.."Evergreen"..please..)

[NW Mike]

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Everett Gateway Center




Rucker Avenue through Downtown
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I am not a big fan of parking structures but Gateway has a very interesting concrete finish that looks like rusted metal. The best I have seen. You can see it in the upper photo. This lower photo has my Office in it on the left. The Old Brick Hardware store ( Now Coast R.E Services ). Our office is doing all of the commercial leasing for the Everett Wharf project. Its fun watching Everett Change. So glad to see the Elks club coming down.

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Originally Posted by NW Mike

This lower photo has my Office in it on the left. The Old Brick Hardware store ( Now Coast R.E Services ). Our office is doing all of the commercial leasing for the Everett Wharf project. Its fun watching Everett Change. So glad to see the Elks club coming down.

Don't you mean the Marion Building?

[BoulderGrad]

Everett is selected as site for UW branch campus at Landmark Transit Center

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...verett15n.html

Edit:
Just to clarify, the site hasn't "officially" been selected. The consultants hired to select the rate each location have recommended the Everett site to the governor. I'm guessing that means it has all but been selected, but you never know?

[citruspastels]

woah! big news. i think it's a good choice. as much as i would have liked to see marysville get a boost along with more space for a campus, this will be good for everett and much more convenient for the people working and studying there.

[NW Mike]

As I said before the Transit site was the best choice. Awesome!!!

From the Everett Herald: Everett transit center site is report's choice for UW campus

EVERETT – The state should build a University of Washington’s campus at the transit center in downtown Everett, a consultant recommended to lawmakers today.

NBBJ of Seattle concluded the Everett location is the best of four sites analyzed in detail in the report that will become the grist for community and subject of legislative hearings in 2008.

The state Legislature and Gov. Chris Gregoire will decide whether to endorse the recommendation or choose one of the other three finalist sites.

The report ranked the quartet of properties with a site in Marysville off Smokey Point Boulevard as the second best option, followed by the former Kimberly-Clark property next to the Snohomish River in Everett and in the Cavalero Hill area in Lake Stevens.

“Today’s announcement is good news for future UW students, families and employers in Everett and the Puget Sound region,” Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson said in a statement.

“We believe that as this preferred location is considered by the Legislature, that Everett will prove to be the most economical and comprehensive site for a university,” he said.

Marysville Mayor Dennis Kendall admitted he was a little disappointed in the report’s findings.

“My initial reaction is, ‘We’re still in the game,’” he said.

Kendall said he had been briefed on the report’s summary conclusions and is concerned the consultant may have overstated the level of improvements required to get the Marysville site ready for a college.

“We’ll fight to add to the information to make it more accurate,” he said. “We can sell ourselves on what we have to offer and hopefully the Legislature will see it our way.”

[Bond James Bond]

Oops I started a whole new thread on the UW selection. Well, whatever.

[mhays]

Me too! Downtown Everett is the nice part.

[USAPatriot]

I'll need to post my new pictures of Everett. I just took them yesterday, all through downtown and the transit center.

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Finally, they're going to get rid of that "dump" (read below) :



Apartments, shops planned for Rucker

By Eric Fetters
Herald Writer

EVERETT -- A six-story building with 150 apartments and street-level stores could replace a used-car dealership within two years at the busy intersection of Pacific and Rucker avenues.

Lobsang Dargey, who bought downtown's Everett Public Market building in 2006, is proposing the development after buying the strategic corner property.

He said it would help fill a demand for nice apartments in the downtown Everett area. While a number of new condominiums are planned, new apartments are in shorter supply.

"Professional people would love to live somewhere that's affordable and has no commute to downtown," Dargey said.

The project, called Potala Village, would replace Good Guys Car Store at 3030 Rucker Ave. The building's footprint would require the city to vacate an alley on the property.

At this point, the development still is at the pre-application phase with the city's planning department. Dargey just officially took over ownership of the property at the corner in September, buying it for $2.7 million, according to Snoho*mish County property records.

If the permit process goes as he hopes, however, Dargey said construction could begin next summer, with completion around fall of 2009.

The development's units would range up to more than 1,000 square feet with one to two bedrooms. There would be more than 150 underground parking spaces.

The building also would include large shared decks with barbecues and other amenities.

Dargey's plans also call for installing a fountain at the Rucker-Pacific corner and artwork along the sidewalks.

He said he's been extensively researching the look of residential apartment buildings in places such as New York City's up-and-coming districts; the hip Pearl District in Portland, Ore.; and Vancouver, B.C.

"It's going to look really different, not like a big box," Dargey said, noting that the Potala name refers to a famous palace in his native Tibet.

The ground floor would contain about 15,000 square feet of commercial space for shops and restaurants.

In Everett's downtown plan, taller buildings are now allowed along Rucker Avenue. The city also has mentioned potential changes to slow down traffic on Rucker in the downtown core area and make it more pedestrian friendly.

In the meantime, Skotdal Real Estate has begun clearing property along Rucker Avenue at California Street for its Library Place development, which will consist of commercial space and 200 residential units.

Tom Hoban of Coast Real Estate Services -- at the corner of Rucker and Hewitt avenues -- is among those who have envisioned Rucker becoming a transformed thoroughfare. He's optimistic from what he's heard so far about Dargey's project.

"The Rucker renaissance, as we've started to call it, begins at Rucker and Pacific and carries through to Rucker and Everett Avenue," he said. "With this project, if it happens and is done well, as well as the Library Place development and things in between, we seem to have some momentum."

Dargey has extensively remodeled parts of the Everett Public Market building into more office and commercial space and now has a waiting list of tenants. Since becoming a downtown property owner, he said, he's become even more interested in Everett's potential.

[NW Mike]

That is a great spot for some condo/aptsLook forward to seeing what it looks like.

[taiwanesedrummer36]

Here's another set of photos from my trip(s) this weekend. Not the greatest weather in the world, but I didn't have time on Sunday, in which the weather was slightly better.

The first set includes pictures of the Silver Firs area, I-5, Marysville sprawl, and some of the Everett waterfront; i'll post the second set later.



100th Street SE, East Everett


35th Avenue SE






Thomas Lake Center


Congested Osborn Corner, 132nd Street SE and Seattle Hill Road


Seattle Hill Center




Applebee's U/C, at new Safeway complex


Additional shops


Safeway (taken in car w/ rain on windsheild)


132nd Street SE


New strip mall u/c


Bartell Drugs @ Seattle Hill Center


Rainy 100th Street SE


I-5


I-5 near Exit 192, with HOV direct access ramps under construction to the left (look at the huge freaking retaining wall)




New Broadway fly-over ramp


New 41st Street NB off-ramp


New SPUI


Look at future Everett Riverfront


I-5, stll under......uh.......construction......




The once-contender for UW Everett...


Everett Wastewater Treament Plant


Congestion on I-5 southbound




Whiskey Ridge


Couple of sloughs...


Downtown Marysville








Welcome to Marysville


Congestion at SR 528






The back of Quil Ceda Village; pretty empty...


...and all of a sudden







Tulalip Amphitheather


Seattle Premium Outlets aka Outlet Mall












Food Court

[taiwanesedrummer36]

[Bond James Bond]

^
You did an excellent job of capturing what most of Snohomish County looks like.

[NW Mike]

don't you mean most of the country!?

[taiwanesedrummer36]

I'm not even going to try and list out what's unique in my Snohomish County pictures. :shake:

[taiwanesedrummer36]

[Disregard]

Double post....

[NW Mike]

We all love Snohomish county and King and so on. The things that are the same are the retailers that pop up everywhere. Of course each strip mall might have a unique appearance with cedar siding or galvanized trim work. The Northwest sure has a taste for its self, It a beautiful modern but ruff appearance. Many places around the country are trying to emulate that look. But the more we build, the more we look like everyone else. And if you peal off that pretty outer skin of a strip mall you will have a little box with retail.

[jessejb]

Snohomish County's natural features are amazing though