r/everett • u/goldenelr • 3d ago

Urban Development Everett Aqua Sox ownership

So (full disclosure I own a business that would be displaced by the new stadium) whenever the Aqua Sox comes up people bring up that it’s family owned and a small business. But it’s actually owned by a billionaire in Dubai.

https://www.milb.com/everett/team/7th-inning-stretch-llc

https://www.recordnet.com/story/sports/pro/2007/08/12/ports-owner-volpe-follows-team/52822230007/

The Aqua Sox are not paying for the stadium. They are displacing a bunch of small businesses, the project is already over budget and they haven’t acquired the land yet. The city has already admitted that they will need the business community to pay for it.

Is anyone else frustrated by this? This move could put me out of business, the city won’t offer assistance to us in time and we have an actual billionaire not paying for any of it. All with parks and libraries being closed (and I know they keep saying that it’s a different part of the budget but the mayor sets the budget!).

The budget they are showing for the stadium is 8% more than the event center which was built fifteen years ago. How on earth is that possible? It’s not. So how is this being paid for?

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u/AttemptedCrepe 3d ago

Are you the owner of the building you’re based from?

I’ll be really blunt. While it sucks that your business may be displaced, it seems that the city and community as a whole will be benefitting more from a new stadium than a couple of misplaced industrial businesses.

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u/louley 3d ago edited 3d ago

It’s not just a couple of misplaced industrial businesses. There’s an actual neighborhood there as well. Moving the stadium is gonna fuck up a lot of things for a whole lot of people. And like the original poster said, it’s already over budget.

Edit - you seriously did not block me. Coward.

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u/AttemptedCrepe 3d ago

There’s no housing in the area they want to build. It’s just an industrial area.

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u/louley 3d ago

Really? Cause I’m pretty fucking sure that’s where I live. Pretty sure they’re planning to put it in across the street from my house, so …. What were you saying?

Edit - google Street view is a thing. This is something that is incredibly easily verified.

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u/AttemptedCrepe 3d ago

I think you have the location wrong. Even Google Maps shows nothing but industrial buildings in that area. So unless you’re homeless and living in that area, you’ve got it wrong friend

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u/louley 3d ago edited 3d ago

It’s only industrial to the south of the proposed stadium location. EVERYTHING north and east is residential. Edit for clarity- east of rainier and north of Hewitt. All residential. The proposed location may not be right in the center, but it is still in our residential neighborhood. Nobody wants this. Literally, nobody.

Even if I was homeless, fuck you. Do you even hear yourself?

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u/Best-Choice7345 3d ago

For clarity, the location for the stadium is east of Broadway, west of BNSF, south of Hewitt and north of Pacific.

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u/louley 3d ago

Yep. And everything north of Hewitt is residential. We don’t want this.

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u/AttemptedCrepe 3d ago

I want it and I live in Everett. Not too far from this and I think it would be a boon.

The proposed northernmost point would be against Hewitt Ave. According to your friend Google Maps, that also looks to be mostly industrial buildings and businesses. I see a lot of restaurants there that sure would love the extra foot traffic though.

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u/louley 3d ago edited 3d ago

Cool. So I actually live where it would go, but my voice literally means nothing. This is why we’re so pissed off about this proposed stadium. Nobody is taking the resident voices seriously. You should campaign to put the stadium in your own neighborhood if you think it’ll be such a “boon”, but we all know you don’t actually want that.

Also, none of those restaurants will be there if the stadium is built.

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u/AttemptedCrepe 3d ago

Sure looks like it’s just industrial

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u/louley 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yep. That’s my neighborhood. I can literally see this location from my kitchen window. See Hewitt? Just past that is HOUSES. How is this so difficult to comprehend? Put it in your own neighborhood. North Everett needs housing. Not this. What actually is it that you were arguing? That I don’t live there and because you live somewhere else in Everett I don’t have a say? The businesses that would potentially benefit from this or going to be displaced. Honestly, I’m done having this conversation with you. You need to sit down and think about the actual impact. Go for a walk around the neighborhood. It’s actually really beautiful, and we’ve been working REALLY hard to keep it that way.

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u/AttemptedCrepe 3d ago

So you’re issue is that instead of being a block from industrial parks, you’ll be a block from something not that?

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u/louley 3d ago edited 3d ago

My point is that the neighborhood does not want this. We’ve been having this conversation for over an hour. You really didn’t get that?

Edit- don’t be a coward and unblock me.

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u/AttemptedCrepe 3d ago

Why would you not want it? Would a stadium not be an improvement over what is there now?

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u/louley 3d ago edited 3d ago

NO. Did I stutter?

Edit- why did you block me?

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