Owners say 7E7 no sure thing for Everett: Boeing's new plane would be a great lift to community, but getting it here will be a challenge. (Aerospace and Aviation).

Everett Business Journal, June, 2003

With all the staccato chatter of officials about just where the Boeing Co. will build its new airplane, one might be 7E7'ed out. Yet business owners and officials in Everett still had a lot to say about the project, which has garnered national attention and set many a community on edge -- just as the airplane maker did two years ago when it moved its headquarters out of the Jet City and into the Windy City.

The governments of Washington, Snohomish County and the City of Everett are saying they will do all they can to assure the modified airplane be built here. Gov. Gary Locke has initiated an extra legislative session to resolve tax and worker's compensation issues of which Boeing is concerned. Snohomish County's Executive Bob Drewel offered an innocuous but...

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