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An in-store bakery was opened in 1941 and proved to be popular. By 1947, the store expanded again. The Haggens closed the White House and built the Town and Country Shopping center on Meridian Street between West Illinois and Maryland streets with Haggen's Thriftway, the store's third name, as the anchor tenant. This store still operates today.
Safeway, Inc. is an American supermarket chain. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, delicatessen, floral and pharmacy, as well as Starbucks coffee shops, and vehicle fuel centers. [2]
Monroe is located at the intersection of three highways: U.S. Route 2 (US 2), which travels eastward from Everett and over Stevens Pass to Eastern Washington; State Route 203, which follows the Snoqualmie River south towards Fall City and North Bend; State Route 522, an expressway which terminates in Monroe and connects the area to Seattle and ...
The city of Monroe replaced the eastern half of SR 522's interchange with Main Street (164th Street Southeast) with a roundabout, the first to be built in Snohomish County, in 2001. [82] The first stage of the corridor project, completed in 2001, widened a section between SR 9 and Paradise Lake Road (SR 524) in Maltby at a cost of $22 million.
Yoke's Fresh Market is an employee-owned Spokane, Washington-based chain of grocery stores founded in 1946 by Marshall and Harriet Yoke. The chain was established by their son Chuck in the 1960s and now encompasses 19 stores in Washington, Idaho, and Montana, primarily in the Spokane area.
The study suggested the expansion of the limited-access highway from Snohomish to the western city limits of Monroe to four lanes, [82] including an interchange at Bickford Avenue that was later completed in September 2013. [83] [84] A wider median with rumble strips was added to some sections of US 2 between Snohomish and Monroe in 2019. [85]
The county fair was moved permanently to Monroe, opening at the modern-day fairgrounds on September 5, 1946, and renaming itself to the Evergreen State Fair in 1949. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A 4,000-seat sports arena was completed in 1970, coinciding with a longer ten-day run for the fair.
When B. F. Smyth founded the Monroe Monitor in January, 1899 it was the community's first newspaper. [1] Since its inception, the newspaper had been continuous circulation. [3] Following the successful development of the Monroe Monitor & Valley News, other weekly newspapers were born, only to quietly disappear or merge with the Monitor. [4]