Nice.  I agree, growth has been  fast and furious with a few breaks in between, due to  recessions.  In the mid-eighties, when I bought my house, downtown Everett was almost dead. You could roll a bowling ball down Hewitt  Ave.  on a Sunday afternoon and wouldn't hit a thing.  There might be a few old drunks sleeping it off on the sidewalk, but there wasn't this massive heroin epidemic we have today.
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My bone of contention with ST3 is its cost and time frame. This article give a nice description of the original 'light rail' from a century ago. It connected Seattle to Everett .......http://www.heraldnet.com/news/interurban-trolley-helped-shape-snohomish-county/ ...after  10 years of 'construction' you could ride electric rail from Everett to Seattle. Started in 1900 and completed in 1910
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 I voted for the 'original' RTA tax in 1994 and was excited to learn rail service from Everett to Seattle would start no later than 2006.  Eleven years later...still waiting and still paying.