'A game of chicken': Downtown Everett businesses react to proposed stadium
EVERETT — Jeremy and Elizabeth Reed have been through a lot since they bought Interface Technologies Northwest in 2018.
Over the past couple of years, the owners of the Everett-based technology company survived a pandemic, major customers going out of business and global supply chain shortages in electronics.
“Now,” Elizabeth Reed said, “The thing that’s going to take us out is a baseball field.”
Their company — along with at least 16 others — is within the two square block radius between Hewitt Avenue and Pacific Avenue along Broadway. That site, following a Dec. 18 City Council vote, is set to be the home of a potential multipurpose stadium the city hopes to build for the minor league Everett AquaSox. After frustrations with what they see as a lack of communication from the city, the two are looking for options of what to do next.
Not everybody on the site opposes the project, however. Nathanael Engen, the owner of indoor mushroom farm Black Forest Mushrooms on Hewitt, is excited about the potential economic development the stadium could bring. A number of other businesses at the site — a vegan restaurant, a coffee stand, a bail bonds service — did not respond to requests for comment.
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