Ryan Countryman

Straining for maximum reach, a child in aviator goggles and cap launches a paper airplane into the sky. “Someday” is the title of a new public art installation in front of the nearly complete Aero Apartments in downtown Everett. Someday faces to the sky west-northwesterly over Port Gardner. “Aviation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3q24_667eU This video is a time capsule in two ways: First it provides a fascinating history of the sluicing of Denny Hill into Puget Sound during the Denny Regrade project and, second, it shows the man-conquers-nature attitude from when it was made (1970).

The City of Everett is in the process of updating its comprehensive plan, which happens to be right in the middle of the city's biggest building boom in years. New apartment construction is occurring near the downtown and several large industrial buildings are underway at the Boeing plant and...

Everett is updating its comprehensive plan. The choices that the city makes will influence building patterns in the city and nearby areas for decades to come. The latest population estimate from the Census Bureau puts Everett at 105,370 people in 2013. In response to anticipated regional growth, the city...