Everett would need another $38M to build stadium, documents show
EVERETT — The estimated cost of Everett’s potential downtown stadium project has increased by nearly $40 million, city staff shared with council members in January.
During the Jan. 31 City Council retreat, Everett special projects manager Scott Pattison and consultant Ben Franz discussed with council members a number of topics related to the stadium project, known as the Outdoor Event Center, including “making up the budget shortfall,” meeting minutes showed.
In presentation slides obtained by The Daily Herald through a public records request, city staff wrote that the cost estimate of the project has increased to $120 million and that Everett is looking to find the missing tens of millions of dollars — about a quarter of the project’s entire budget — that would be needed to complete it. Staff previously estimated the stadium would cost $82 million.
The cost projections increased because the city would need to buy more properties than it previously anticipated to complete the project, Pattison said in an interview Wednesday. Construction costs have also increased, he said.
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