When it comes to government’s role in economic development, discussions of how to attract business often revolve around incentives.
A letter last week was the official end of plans for a new apartment building and city-owned parking garage next door to McMenamins’ Elks Temple.
Tacoma police detectives continue to work through what they are calling a “complicated” homicide scene at a downtown home.
Initial planning and design work for a new seaplane float on downtown Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway is advancing with the selection of the Everett engineering firm Reid Middleton to perform the work.
The City of Tacoma on Thursday removed sections of a wrought-iron fence that blocked the most direct path from Pacific Avenue to the Bridge of Glass.
The tiny downtown park at Pacific Avenue and South 21st Street was little noticed by its owner before it spent four months as a campsite for the local Occupy Wall Street offshoot.
Tacoma School of the Arts will welcome its first-ever freshman class in the fall.
A rally designed to drum up support for a constitutional amendment that would ban corporations from having the same rights as persons is set for March 17 in downtown Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza.
The $48 million loan on the former Russell Investments headquarters has been downgraded, raising new questions over the future of downtown Tacoma’s signature office building.
Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland praised the Occupy Tacoma movement for vacating a downtown park earlier this week in a peaceful manner — unlike similar Occupy groups in other cities.
People at the Occupy Tacoma encampment continued packing up Sunday per its eviction notice, but authorities did not arrive to shoo them off the property.
Tiny Don Pugnetti Park downtown was quiet Saturday evening as Occupy Tacoma campers packed up their things and cleaned up the camp ahead of Sunday’s eviction.
Eviction notices were pounded into the ground Thursday at the Occupy Tacoma encampment, and the remaining campers have until Sunday afternoon to clear out.
The Tacoma City Council voted unanimously Tuesday evening to eliminate any parking requirements for new development in the downtown core.
Sharp-eyed Tacomans noticed this listing: Old City Hall is officially for sale, for $3.5 million.
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