User:ComputerGuy890100/iArticle/March, 2008

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The University of Washington North Sound is an ongoing contest between 4 proposed sites for a new UW campus. The sites had to be north of Lynnwood, south of Arlington, and has good transportation acess (major freeway, transportation hub, etc.). The 4 sites are in Smokey Point, 2 in Everett, and one in Lake Stevens.

The new university will compete with the existing Everett Community College and other colleges around the county.

There are 4 finalists sites that were more favorable than 80 other sites.

The Everett may be located at Everett Station. The total acres available for the development is contentious. According to the CBRE Richard Ellis report [1]conducted for NBBJ 25.2 acres were submitted by the City of Everett in their original proposal. Of this, 3.84 acres are owned by Sound Transit and have been subsequently removed from the proposal. This leaves as little as 21.36 acres of parcels available for consideration. This acreage does not include right-of-ways for public roads that currently exist. It is small compared to the two other sites, but it is near a transportation hub with Community Transit's SWIFT Bus Rapid Transit service coming soon along with Sound Transit's Link light rail service in Snohomish County. Everett also operates the north end of Sound Transit's Sounder commuter rail service to and from Seattle and then to Tacoma, Amtrak service to and from Vancouver (via Amtrak Cascades/Pacific Central Station and Seattle, and using Amtrak's Empire Builder, Everett has connections to Spokane and Chicago. It was rated the best site and the Snohomish County Council supports it.

The site along with the other Everett site has portions that are contaminated. This may be an enviornmental risk to students, but this didn't effect the popularity of the site. (more...)

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