 In 1966, the Smokey Point area was proposed as the location of a four-year public college, with offered by the city of Arlington to the state government.The Washington State Legislature decided to build the college instead in Olympia, becoming The Evergreen State College.The Smokey Point area was again offered by Arlington and Marysville as the site of a University of Washington branch campus in the 2000s, but the project was put on hold and later declined by the state legislature in favor of a Washington State University branch campus in Everett.