Downtown Kent will take on a whole new look after the City Council agreed to sell the 9.3-acre Naden property for $18.3 million to a Minnesota-based developer to build a manufacturing campus.
City leaders would love to see an aerospace company come to the vacant site, especially with the history of Boeing and Blue Origin in town, but what manufacturer ends up on the property remains to be determined.
The council voted 7-0 on Feb. 3 to sell the property, which the city has owned since 2006, to Mortenson Development, of Minneapolis…