Engineered Sports Therapy has reopened at 1502 Hewitt Ave. in downtown Everett after the city's planned $120 million stadium displaced the clinic from its 18-year Wall Street home.

Co-founders Lance Miller and Bob Hamre purchased the Hewitt Avenue property in July and are already seeing clients, the Everett Post reported.

The address is the same space where the pair first worked together in 2003 training the inaugural Everett Silvertips hockey team.

Their old clinic at 2205 Wall St. sat squarely in the footprint of the proposed Everett Outdoor Events Center, a roughly 5,000-seat facility planned as the new home of the Everett AquaSox.

The project was triggered by new Major League Baseball facility requirements that left Funko Field out of compliance.

The city chose the downtown site, between Hewitt and Pacific avenues along Broadway, in December 2024.

As of June 25, the city had relocated four businesses from the stadium footprint and was working to move five more.

Miller told the Everett Post that moving was never part of the plan. An 18-month search for a replacement followed the city's stadium announcement.

"Because our existing facility sat directly in center field," he said, "Engineered Sports was faced with a choice: trade in our treatment tables for baseball mitts or find a new home."

The break came when Jim Staniford, a local property owner who had leased space to Miller and Hamre at the Hewitt Avenue address two decades earlier, offered to sell them the building.

Miller said Staniford walked in and told them he had just the space they needed.

Miller and Hamre first teamed up in 2003 when the Silvertips arrived as a Western Hockey League expansion franchise.

Hamre served as head athletic trainer and Miller as lead physical therapist.

They ran off-ice strength and conditioning out of the Hewitt Avenue space and also trained Everett Community College baseball and fastpitch teams there.

They later founded Engineered Sports Therapy to serve athletes and tactical professionals, including police, firefighters and military personnel.

The clinic now operates two locations, in downtown Everett and north Marysville, with about 30 full-and part-time staff.

The downtown facility spans roughly 10,000 square feet.

Miller called the move "certainly a bittersweet moment" but said he and Hamre support Mayor Cassie Franklin's vision for the stadium project.

The city plans to seek full council approval for the stadium, including a funding plan, in late September, according to the Daily Herald.

Officials hope to open the facility by the end of 2027.

Engineered Sports Therapy plans to add dry needling services at the Hewitt Avenue location after Washington state relaxed a law that had required a doctor's prescription for the treatment.