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Report pegs Everett, Wash., navy base's economic impact at $431 million yearly.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

By Peyton Whitely, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 15--On any lunch hour, Scuttlebutt Brewing along the Everett waterfront is filled with uniforms, like the three Navy officers recently enjoying a fish-and-chips lunch.

The officers, in khakis and leather jackets, declined to be identified because they're prohibited from officially discussing matters related to Naval Station Everett, but they acknowledged that they eat at Scuttlebutt two or three times a month, usually spending $10 or more each. That puts nearly $100 a month into the brewery's cash register.

Multiply such transactions by thousands of instances and you're talking about a dollar figure that comes to about $400 million a year.

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