Today we published an update on whether the City of Tacoma’s construction project on Stadium Way would affect McMenamins’ plans for renovating the Tacoma Elks.
Today we published an update on whether the City of Tacoma’s construction project on Stadium Way would affect McMenamins’ plans for renovating the Tacoma Elks.
Renee Rank Ignacio, spokeswoman for the Portland-based brewpub operator, told me the road project doesn’t change their plans but that construction might not begin until August because they’re buying the Elks annex. The annex was to have been demolished to make way for a new mixed-use building, but those plans fell through.
McMenamins has taken another step toward beginning work at the downtown Tacoma Elks Temple.
Perhaps, dear readers, we might learn a few more details about the McMenamins’ plans for the Tacoma Elks Temple after a luncheon in two weeks.
For those looking for signs that the economic recovery we’ve been promised for five years might finally be taking hold, and that the Tacoma renaissance we’ve been promised for even longer might be back on track, last week’s entries on The News Tribune’s Biz Buzz blog made for uplifting reading.
A long-discussed plan for a retail and apartment complex in the heart of Tacoma’s Proctor District has new life – and is causing some to worry – after a conceptual drawing appeared online.
South Sound is getting something its needed - a German-themed pub. Veltins Bierhalle is planned for a summer 2013 opening in Tacoma’s brewery district.
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