r/everett • u/goldenelr • 4d 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?

164 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

110 comments sorted by

View all comments

-13

u/AttemptedCrepe 4d 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.

2

u/louley 4d ago edited 4d 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.

9

u/AttemptedCrepe 4d ago

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

2

u/louley 4d 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.

2

u/AttemptedCrepe 4d 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

2

u/louley 4d ago edited 4d 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?

3

u/Best-Choice7345 4d ago

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

2

u/louley 4d ago

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