Arlington and Marysville trade open space for local jobs
ARLINGTON — With dump trucks whizzing up and down 51st Avenue Northeast to deliver materials to the future site of a massive Amazon fulfillment center, decades-long Marysville and Arlington residents near the Cascade Industrial Center are coming to grips with the inevitable: Dramatic and long-predicted growth has arrived at their doorstep.
One woman, who moved to Arlington in the 1970s to “enjoy the country,” remembers a 7-Eleven as the only store thereabouts. She recognizes that growth has to happen somewhere, but “it’s sad that it’s so close to home.”
Shortly after Amazon construction got underway at 51st Avenue and 172nd Street Northeast in Arlington, the City Council in adjoining Marysville unanimously passed a resolution for Mayor Jon Nehring to complete a development agreement with NorthPoint Development, a private real estate development firm that plans to erect nine buildings in the industrial center, which straddles the Marysville and Arlington city limits.
That development, off 51st Avenue in Marysville and bound by a railroad line on the southeast side, is expected to bring between 3,980 and 4,887 jobs to the community, said Haylie Miller, director of community development for the city of Marysville.
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