Stronger Together
In 2026, the Everett Station District Alliance became “Stations Unidos,” expanding our work from the Everett Station District near Downtown Everett to South Everett, with a focus on the area of Casino Road and Evergreen Way.
In Everett, these two areas sometimes feel miles apart, being in North and South. One is near the historic downtown, more than 133 years old, with a stronger street grid and legacy of streetcars, heavy rail lines, and lumber mills. The other was annexed into the city from 1968 to the 2000s, has a big suburban streets with minimum sidewalks, auto-oriented retail businesses, and major industrial businesses like Boeing.
There’s much more that binds the Everett Station District and Casino Road than this quick snapshot.
Both are home to transit agencies’ operations: Community Transit’s headquarters on the west end of Casino Road and Everett Transit headquarters at Everett Station.
Light rail stations will arrive to both areas in 2041.
Both have a strong presence of industrial businesses, with the bigger businesses like Boeing, Fluke, Jamco, and Helion in South Everett, and the more small and mid-sized industrial businesses like Sea-Lect Plastics, Everett Steel, Royell Manufacturing, Component Concepts Inc., and several cabinetry shops located in the Everett Station District.
Both have large public recreation facilities operated for private enjoyment: Funko Field (and the future Outdoor Event Center) in the Everett Station District and Walter E. Hall Golf Course on Casino Road.
Both have a strong Latino presence, with a private cultural event business operated in the Everett Station District and as many as 40% of residents of some census tracts along Casino Road speaking Spanish as their primary language.
Both are designated by HUD with “Qualified Census Tracts,” by Treasury as “Opportunity Zones,” by Treasury’s CDFI Fund for New Markets Tax Credits, by the White House Council on Environmental Quality as “Disadvantaged Communities” using the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). Both areas score among the worst census tracts in the state on the Environmental Health Disparities Map.
Both are connected by the Interurban Trail, Evergreen Way / 41st Street, and Interstate 5.
As each area works to build a stronger future, we are better doing so together. We are linked by our common future of Sound Transit light rail opening in 2041.
Light rail will bring both challenges and opportunities. Challenges of preventing displacement of important residents and cultural anchors. Opportunities of housing thousands of new residents and building cohesive, complete neighborhoods with jobs, safe streets, great public spaces, and community events.
To maximize this opportunity, we need to speak and act with one voice. As Everett’s community development corporation, Stations Unidos both provides a singular focus toward looking towards this future with light rail, and facilitates an ecosystem of public, nonprofit, and private partners to work together towards a shared vision.