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A marker for her daughter A Tulalip woman who is raising her grandson just missed the deadline for help to buy a headstone for his slain mother. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
TULALIP — Pam Blount sat in her car outside the headstone maker’s office for 20 minutes, wiping at tears and working up the nerve to go inside. “I want it to be perfect,” Blount said. “I want something I think she would like, something she’d be proud of.” Blount’s only daughter, Jessica Jones, was shot to death April 8, 2014, in an Arlington garage. She was flown to a Seattle hospital where Blount was told that her eldest child was brain dead. Jones died the next day after life-support measures were removed. She was 25. Family and friends packed the Tulalip Tribal Gym a week later to remember Jones. She was buried at the Mission Beach Cemetery, near her large Tulalip family. The slain woman’s boyfriend was arrested a month after the killing. He is accused of shooting Jones during an argument. Police were told that he had abused and threatened Jones in the past. He is charged with second-degree murder and scheduled to go to trial this fall. Now, Blount finds herself raising money to buy a headstone for her daughter. The Tulalip Tribes helped pay for burial costs and the state’s See JONES, Page A8
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Crews work on the Aero Apartments in downtown Everett on April 15. The project includes a 2,000-square-foot retail space that will be prominently located on the corner of Hewitt and Rucker avenues.
High expectations about population and job growth are driving the retail and residential building surge By Chris Winters and Dan Catchpole Herald Writers
EVERETT — Mayor Ray Stephanson can see the city changing from his corner office on the 10th floor of the Wall Street Building. Looking west over downtown, the view includes such recent developments as the Artspace lofts, Aero Apartments and the Potala Place apartments and market. The view also includes a handful of old homes and low-rise retail buildings, where
tenants include pawn shops and a bail bondsman. Local boosters and developers say the upscale apartment buildings going up are the leading edge of downtown’s rebirth. City planners expect Everett’s population to grow by nearly 40 percent, or 40,000 people, for a total of 143,000 by 2035. County planners put the number even higher, at about 60,000. The number of jobs in the area is already growing and is expected to keep pace with population, according to economic forecasts. The upshot is that downtown
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Crews work on the Aero Apartments in downtown Everett on April 15.
Everett might change more in the next 20 years than it has in the past 20 as the urban core evolves from a gritty, post-industrial downtown to one where the sidewalks are busy from
morning until night. Of course, no one can say exactly how that process will unfold. Or if it will at all. See BOOM, Page A6
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Familiar, funny Letterman broke TV ground and rules. Entertainment, D3
Sure you want the new watch — but do you need it? Good Life, D1
Derby winner American Pharoah wins Preakness. Sports, C1
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