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October 30, 2013 <br /> legislature to approve a transportation funding package with local and <br /> regional aerospace-related projects designed to address congestion, <br /> freight mobility and future growth. <br /> Our work to establish a four-year university in Everett to provide area <br /> businesses with a ready pool of skilled workers continues to move <br /> forward. Washington State University is now firmly established in Everett <br /> and will assume the operations of the University Center in the coming <br /> months. With $10 million from the legislature in 2013, design and plans to <br /> expand the University Center and relocate it to a new building on the east <br /> side of Broadway have begun. <br /> WSU's mechanical engineering program is now in its second year. <br /> Coursework in electrical engineering, communications and hospitality <br /> business management is scheduled to begin in 2014. <br /> New business and development <br /> Our economic development efforts are paying off with new growth and <br /> partnerships. In 2013 we saw businesses set up shop or expand their <br /> operations, and several major development projects are getting started or <br /> are currently under way. <br /> In early September we celebrated aerospace supplier Umbra Cuscinetti's <br /> investment in an 80,000-square-foot building on Hardeson Road that will <br /> allow it to expand its operations and add new jobs in aerospace and <br /> renewable energy generation. Burlington Coat Factory opened a 70,000- <br /> square-foot store at the Everett Mall. The mall's first new anchor store <br /> since 2009 is expected to employ 75-100 people. <br /> Earlier this month, Saltchuk Resources, Inc., announced an agreement to <br /> purchase the Kimberly-Clark site and relocate its shipbuilding and repair <br /> business to Everett — including 250 family-wage jobs. Thanks to the hard <br /> work of the council and community to develop the central waterfront plan, <br /> we now have a new partner who's eager to diversify our working <br /> waterfront and bring even more jobs to the city in coming years. <br /> On the east side of the city, Polygon Northwest has begun site work on <br /> the Riverfront development. Construction will begin next spring, and we <br /> expect to see the first homes up for sale in 2015. In downtown Everett, <br /> 303 <br />