Tacoma Development News - Page 26

***Bond James Bond*** · August 22nd, 2012, 07:42 AM

^
Given that there's no university there, I've been wondering for years if they were ever gonna change it!

mSeattle · September 27th, 2012, 08:14 PM

September 27, 2012
Wave pool opens in Tacoma park
By JOURNAL STAFF

http://www.djc.com/news/ae/12045479.html

Tacoma has opened its first wave pool, designed by SHKS Architects as part of a 10-acre park and pool project in Kandle Park at 5302 N. 26th St.

D Green · September 27th, 2012, 09:18 PM

Now all they need is an urban beach and they're set.

alexjonlin · September 28th, 2012, 04:04 AM

I'm curious as to whether people ever use the huge grassy circle in that park... But at least a wave pool is a good anchor to get people to go there.

mhays · September 28th, 2012, 05:18 AM

That sort of thing looks better in a drawing than it does on the ground....sort of like the curvy grids people do with new urbanist developments.

But people will toss a ball there. I do wonder if there are benches in the shade. Nothing worse than wandering around a park and all the shady benches are taken because the designers don't get that not everybody wants to be in the sun. Sometimes, they're ALL in the sun.

RMacherat · September 28th, 2012, 09:49 AM

I see there isn't a lot of parking on the site. That seems a little short-sighted what with wave pool season right around the corner.

Nexis · October 8th, 2012, 09:01 AM

mSeattle · October 8th, 2012, 08:33 PM

^ I saw infrastructure for it last time I visited Tacoma.

RMacherat · October 8th, 2012, 09:00 PM

Thank God they still make Excedrin.

mSeattle · October 17th, 2012, 08:05 PM

October 17, 2012
$26M Hilltop health center under way
By JOURNAL STAFF

Community Health Care earlier this month started construction on its $26 million Hilltop Regional Health Center at 1202 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Tacoma.
The center will serve 17,200 patients annually, about six times more than the area's existing clinic.

geoffloftus · November 10th, 2012, 04:28 PM

Tacoma is the banner today! I believe that that's the first time (at least since I joined this forum)

mSeattle · November 27th, 2012, 04:08 AM

Something going up in the UWT area.

image hosted on flickr

by mSeattle, on Flickr

JacobR · November 29th, 2012, 04:17 PM

Something going up in the UWT area.

It is a Holiday Inn Express.

mSeattle · November 29th, 2012, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JacobR

Something going up in the UWT area.

It is a Holiday Inn Express.

Thanks for the info. Great to bring more people to downtown. Hopefully this can spur other business and residential growth.

mhays · November 29th, 2012, 08:53 PM

Hotels tend to support restaurants way more than the same number of residential units would. Same with retail if a good district exists. And they should be a good audience for the museum district. Good all around.

This the UW area has a way to go to fill in, even along Pacific, but the mix is good -- students, visitors, residents, conventeers, office workers, museum-goers, etc., all fill out the week pretty well.

mSeattle · November 30th, 2012, 07:16 AM

Expansion to the hospital in the Hilltop neighborhood:

image hosted on flickr

Tacoma Washington hospital expansion by mSeattle, on Flickr

JacobR · November 30th, 2012, 04:37 PM

A Tacoma seafood sales company, long a fixture on the Thea Foss Waterway, would remain on its present site and remodel its building if the City Council backs a property sale approved this week by the Foss Waterway Development Authority.

Johnny’s Seafood Co., now part of the nation’s largest seafood company, Pacific Seafood, had once considered moving from its 1199 Dock Street site to a strip mall in Fife, but now it says it will undertake an extensive remodeling of the building it has occupied since 1975.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/1...#storylink=cpy

mSeattle · November 30th, 2012, 10:57 PM

I hope it's approved. Great news to keep a density of jobs in/near downtown.

JacobR · December 5th, 2012, 03:42 AM

DuPont may soon be home to new Amazon distribution center

Online shopping giant Amazon looks to be planning a second distribution center in Pierce County.

A national real estate company associated with the mega-retailer bought 92 acres in DuPont for $26.1 million. The site, next door to Intel, is more than raw dirt. It includes plans for a center that is “permit-ready,” the seller said, so it could be built and open in 10 months.

Details about the deal, first reported by the Puget Sound Business Journal, are scarce. Indianapolis-based Duke Realty bought the land in late November. It works with Amazon across the country. Just a few years ago, a company vice president told an industry publication that Amazon was No. 2 in Duke’s portfolio.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/1...#storylink=cpy

JacobR · January 7th, 2013, 03:17 PM

Parcel off Foss Waterway among possible sites for new distillery

A startup company with ambitions of creating a line of premium spirits for national distribution is eyeing a parcel on the near-downtown waterway’s east side as the site for a new distillery and restaurant.

Riverhorse Inc. said this week that the site on East D Street, adjacent to Tacoma’s old waterfront fire station north of the Murray Morgan Bridge, is among the finalists in a competition to become the home of the new facility, to be called Copper & Kings Distillery.

The company, now based in Minneapolis, is looking at other sites in Oregon, Kentucky and Virginia.

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September 27th, 2012, 08:14 PM	#502
mSeattle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 807 Likes (Received): 11	Wave pool opens in Tacoma park September 27, 2012 Wave pool opens in Tacoma park By JOURNAL STAFF http://www.djc.com/news/ae/12045479.html Tacoma has opened its first wave pool, designed by SHKS Architects as part of a 10-acre park and pool project in Kandle Park at 5302 N. 26th St. __________________ *Too Much DOUBT - Troy Davis ExecutionYOU are Commander In Chief* of your body. Remember Bradley Manning.**

September 27th, 2012, 09:18 PM	#503
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October 8th, 2012, 09:01 AM	#507
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October 8th, 2012, 08:33 PM	#508
mSeattle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 807 Likes (Received): 11	^ I saw infrastructure for it last time I visited Tacoma. __________________ *Too Much DOUBT - Troy Davis ExecutionYOU are Commander In Chief* of your body. Remember Bradley Manning.**

September 28th, 2012, 04:04 AM	#504
alexjonlin Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,248 Likes (Received): 82	I'm curious as to whether people ever use the huge grassy circle in that park... But at least a wave pool is a good anchor to get people to go there.

September 28th, 2012, 05:18 AM	#505
mhays Journeyman Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 8,346 Likes (Received): 115	That sort of thing looks better in a drawing than it does on the ground....sort of like the curvy grids people do with new urbanist developments. But people will toss a ball there. I do wonder if there are benches in the shade. Nothing worse than wandering around a park and all the shady benches are taken because the designers don't get that not everybody wants to be in the sun. Sometimes, they're ALL in the sun.

September 28th, 2012, 09:49 AM	#506
RMacherat Buy used books Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,699 Likes (Received): 80	I see there isn't a lot of parking on the site. That seems a little short-sighted what with wave pool season right around the corner.

October 8th, 2012, 09:00 PM	#509
RMacherat Buy used books Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,699 Likes (Received): 80	Thank God they still make Excedrin.

October 17th, 2012, 08:05 PM	#510
mSeattle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 807 Likes (Received): 11	October 17, 2012 $26M Hilltop health center under way By JOURNAL STAFF Community Health Care earlier this month started construction on its $26 million Hilltop Regional Health Center at 1202 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Tacoma. The center will serve 17,200 patients annually, about six times more than the area's existing clinic. __________________ *Too Much DOUBT - Troy Davis ExecutionYOU are Commander In Chief* of your body. Remember Bradley Manning.**

November 10th, 2012, 04:28 PM	#511
geoffloftus Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Seattle Posts: 339 Likes (Received): 65	Tacoma is the banner today! I believe that that's the first time (at least since I joined this forum)

November 27th, 2012, 04:08 AM	#512
mSeattle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 807 Likes (Received): 11	Something going up in the UWT area. image hosted on flickr by mSeattle, on Flickr __________________ *Too Much DOUBT - Troy Davis ExecutionYOU are Commander In Chief* of your body. Remember Bradley Manning.**

November 29th, 2012, 04:17 PM	#513
JacobR Tacomian Since 1983 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 231 Likes (Received): 2	Something going up in the UWT area. It is a Holiday Inn Express.

November 29th, 2012, 08:53 PM	#515
mhays Journeyman Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 8,346 Likes (Received): 115	Hotels tend to support restaurants way more than the same number of residential units would. Same with retail if a good district exists. And they should be a good audience for the museum district. Good all around. This the UW area has a way to go to fill in, even along Pacific, but the mix is good -- students, visitors, residents, conventeers, office workers, museum-goers, etc., all fill out the week pretty well.

November 30th, 2012, 07:16 AM	#516
mSeattle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 807 Likes (Received): 11	Expansion to the hospital in the Hilltop neighborhood: image hosted on flickr Tacoma Washington hospital expansion by mSeattle, on Flickr __________________ *Too Much DOUBT - Troy Davis ExecutionYOU are Commander In Chief* of your body. Remember Bradley Manning.**

November 30th, 2012, 04:37 PM	#517
JacobR Tacomian Since 1983 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 231 Likes (Received): 2	A Tacoma seafood sales company, long a fixture on the Thea Foss Waterway, would remain on its present site and remodel its building if the City Council backs a property sale approved this week by the Foss Waterway Development Authority. Johnny’s Seafood Co., now part of the nation’s largest seafood company, Pacific Seafood, had once considered moving from its 1199 Dock Street site to a strip mall in Fife, but now it says it will undertake an extensive remodeling of the building it has occupied since 1975. Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/1...#storylink=cpy

November 30th, 2012, 10:57 PM	#518
mSeattle Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 807 Likes (Received): 11	I hope it's approved. Great news to keep a density of jobs in/near downtown. __________________ *Too Much DOUBT - Troy Davis ExecutionYOU are Commander In Chief* of your body. Remember Bradley Manning.**

December 5th, 2012, 03:42 AM	#519
JacobR Tacomian Since 1983 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 231 Likes (Received): 2	DuPont may soon be home to new Amazon distribution center DuPont may soon be home to new Amazon distribution center Online shopping giant Amazon looks to be planning a second distribution center in Pierce County. A national real estate company associated with the mega-retailer bought 92 acres in DuPont for $26.1 million. The site, next door to Intel, is more than raw dirt. It includes plans for a center that is “permit-ready,” the seller said, so it could be built and open in 10 months. Details about the deal, first reported by the Puget Sound Business Journal, are scarce. Indianapolis-based Duke Realty bought the land in late November. It works with Amazon across the country. Just a few years ago, a company vice president told an industry publication that Amazon was No. 2 in Duke’s portfolio. Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/1...#storylink=cpy

January 7th, 2013, 03:17 PM	#520
JacobR Tacomian Since 1983 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 231 Likes (Received): 2	Parcel off Foss Waterway among possible sites for new distillery A startup company with ambitions of creating a line of premium spirits for national distribution is eyeing a parcel on the near-downtown waterway’s east side as the site for a new distillery and restaurant. Riverhorse Inc. said this week that the site on East D Street, adjacent to Tacoma’s old waterfront fire station north of the Murray Morgan Bridge, is among the finalists in a competition to become the home of the new facility, to be called Copper & Kings Distillery. The company, now based in Minneapolis, is looking at other sites in Oregon, Kentucky and Virginia.

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