More than 30,000 people build Boeing's newest airplanes here. The world's densest fusion energy cluster is inventing what comes after fossil fuels. And a deepwater port moves it all to market. Companies come here to make things. Then they make it here.
The name carries three meanings, and Everett backs all three with something real. Here's what each one looks like on the ground.
Aerospace, fusion, advanced nuclear, precision instruments. This is a city that builds the physical world, with the trained hands and clean power to do it.
See the workforce →Ready sites, real incentives, deepwater logistics, and a commute that runs against traffic. The pieces that turn a plan into a running operation are already here.
See the sites →Everett is still being written. Arrive while there's room to shape it, and the Chamber will help you take a seat at the table.
Meet the Chamber →Skilled labor tops every national site selection survey. Everett's bench runs deep, and the pipeline that feeds it starts at Paine Field.
Generations of aerospace and advanced manufacturing built a deep bench of machinists, engineers, technicians, and program managers. The Washington Aerospace Training and Research Center and the state Center of Excellence train at Paine Field, AJAC apprenticeships run in Everett and Arlington, and Washington State University Everett graduates world-class engineers downtown.
When TerraPower's CEO explained why the company put its research lab here, he pointed to one thing: the concentration of talented professionals.
Energy sits in the top three site selection factors nationally. Everett arrives with the answer already wired in.
Snohomish County PUD is the second largest publicly owned utility in the Pacific Northwest. Your power bill and your sustainability report both improve on day one.
The companies inventing the future of energy bet their own capital on this grid, this workforce, and this permitting environment. That isn't marketing. That's due diligence you can borrow.
Everett ships 777X fuselage sections, wind turbine blades, and military hardware for a living. If your cargo is oversized, high-value, or on a deadline, this is one of the few places in America purpose-built for it.
The Port of Everett is a natural deepwater port supporting nearly $21 billion in U.S. exports each year, with five terminals, eight berths, a 110-ton rail loading ramp, and roll-on roll-off capability. The BNSF mainline runs through town. I-5 and US 2 are minutes from every industrial site. And Foreign Trade Zone #85 lets companies defer, reduce, or eliminate customs duties, cutting entry fees by as much as 85 percent.
This is also a Navy town. Naval Station Everett anchors the waterfront with roughly 6,000 sailors and civilian personnel and an estimated $622 million in annual economic impact, homeporting the Navy's Pacific guided-missile destroyers alongside Coast Guard cutters on a natural deepwater harbor.
A container ship at berth, worked by the Port's gantry cranes. The same deepwater berths handle oversized aerospace loads and project cargo that most ports cannot take.
For our international visitors
Everett is in Washington State, on the U.S. West Coast, 25 miles north of Seattle in the Pacific Northwest. About 2,300 miles from the other Washington. Direct flights connect Seattle to London, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Seoul, and beyond.
Speed to operation is the factor that jumped most in this year's national site selection surveys. Everett answers with acreage, not adjectives.
Southwest Everett holds one of the largest inventories of utility-served industrial land in the Puget Sound region. Twenty minutes north, the Cascade Industrial Center offers more than 4,000 acres zoned for manufacturing, with over 1,700 acres available today.
The Chamber connects you directly with the city, county, and port officials who can walk a specific parcel with you, usually within days.
0% state personal income tax. It matters every time you recruit an engineer or executive.
Aerospace tax incentives extended through 2040.
10-year property tax exemption for qualifying new industrial construction in designated areas.
Reduced state B&O rates for qualifying manufacturers. No city B&O tax in CIC cities.
Foreign Trade Zone #85. Defer, reduce, or eliminate customs duties.
Opportunity Zones for qualifying investment.
What your project keeps in Everett
Everett offers office, flex, and R&D space at a fraction of core Puget Sound rates, with the same regional talent pool and a commute that runs against traffic. For a startup, that's runway. For an established company, that's margin.
These companies ran the analysis and chose Everett: aerospace, fusion, healthcare, precision instruments, and pop culture. Range a site selector can bank on.
"Paine Field was an obvious choice for us. Working from this location, ZeroAvia is well positioned among one of the most talented aerospace and clean energy communities worldwide." Val Miftakhov · Founder & CEO, ZeroAvia
You've seen that you can make things here, and make it here. The last part, making the place, is the part we do together. A responsive local partner ranks among the top factors in every site selection survey, and that is the Chamber's specialty. Reach out, and within days we'll connect you with the city, county, port, and utility partners who can say yes. Come visit, and we'll walk the sites with you ourselves.
