EVERETT — The Everett City Council awarded a $2 million contract on Wednesday to relocate Everett Transit’s Mall Station platform, making room for a new TopGolf facility.
The city will pay about $1.8 million from its Everett Transit fund to relocate the platform. The mall’s owners, Brixton Capital, put $200,000 toward the project. The transit agency will move its Mall Station platform and driver facility about 500 feet to the west of its current location, a city council document stated.
In August 2024, city staff approved a conditional use permit for a new TopGolf facility at the Everett Mall. It will be three stories tall, take up 68,000 square feet and contain a restaurant, bar and event space, permits show. The facility is part of a larger redevelopment of the Everett Mall, known as “The Hub @ Everett,” which is set to open by 2026.
TopGolf will be located between I-5 and the existing Regal movie theater, permit filings show. The facility’s footprint is set to take up the space Everett Transit’s Mall Station currently occupies.
Without the redevelopment of the mall and the imminent arrival of TopGolf, Everett Transit would not have otherwise relocated the platform, but the opportunity to build a new platform will allow it to function better operationally, spokesperson Matt Coomes wrote in an email.
“The new location will be an improvement for both customers and bus operations,” Coomes said.
The new platform will be built using a “saw-tooth” design, a form of bus station construction which allows buses to arrive and depart in any order. As part of the new design, buses will use only one side of the platform, making the distance buses travel through the parking lot shorter and lessening the impact for pedestrians, especially those using the movie theater, Coomes wrote. Customers will also only have to face one side of the platform.
Everett Transit’s most popular route, Route 7, travels between Mall Station and Everett Community College. Nearly half of all the rides Everett Transit provides are on Route 7, city data shows.
Construction of the new platform is expected to finish by the end of 2025, Coomes said.
Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; william.geschke@heraldnet.com; X: @willgeschke.
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