Watch Amazon’s DuPont fulfillment center rising
Amazon.com, the world’s largest Internet retailer, is wasting no time getting its newest Western Washington project built. Construction crews are pouring concrete, raising walls and grading roads for...
View ArticleNew Asian supermarket opening this week in Lakewood
New Jersey-based H Mart opens its third Asian-foods-focused supermarket in the Puget Sound area Thursday in Lakewood. The 43,000-square-foot market at 8720 South Tacoma Way in Lakewood’s International...
View ArticleTacoma Macy’s workers’ union reaches tentative deal
A union representing workers at Macy’s Tacoma Mall store have reached a tentative agreement with the retailer for a new contracts. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 367 said today that the union...
View ArticleFederal Way Top Food & Drug store to close in four-six weeks
Top Food & Drug’s parent company announced this morning that it will close the Federal Way store in four-six weeks. “Choosing to close this location is difficult knowing the impact it will have on...
View ArticleProject to add a second downtown location for Infinite Soups goes up on...
Fans of Infinite Soups (and who isn’t?), the downtown Tacoma soup emporium, went up on Kickstarter on Friday with a newly announced project: to open a second outlet in the Main Post Office (and former...
View ArticleTruffles hit by recession’s troubles: University Place sweetshop Affairs has...
The sweet tooth has been pulled. After 28 years serving customers from a small University Place storefront, the owner of Affairs Cafe and Bakery on Saturday posted the news along with her thanks....
View ArticleTacoma Mall Macy’s workers ratify new contract
Union workers at Macy’s Tacoma Mall store have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year labor contract. Those nearly 300 members of Local 367 of United Food and Commercial Workers approved the...
View ArticlePort of Tacoma saw huge increase in container business last month
The Port of Tacoma’s principal business, container shipments, rose by nearly 50 percent in February this year, new statistics from the port show. But not all of that business boom is likely to be...
View ArticleMajor master-planning effort for 600 acres of downtown Tacoma is ready for...
A master-planning process that began in the fall of 2011 has produced a deep look at downtown Tacoma’s Brewery and Dome districts, full of ideas for the way it should develop during the next several...
View ArticleTacoma developers propose 161-unit mixed use building on the Thea Foss Waterway
Five years after development went into limbo, developers are returning to Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway. Now a development alliance calling itself the Henry Group is proposing to build a $31.2 million...
View ArticleWilco coop buys Laughlin Oil
Wilco, an Oregon-based agricultural supply cooperative, has announced the purchase of the Laughlin Oil Co. bulk fuel and lube business from ARS Fresno. Service to customers under the new ownership will...
View ArticleTacoma Goodwill opening new store in Nalley Valley May 2
Goodwill will open a new Tacoma outlet on May 2, according to a release last week. The 12,000-square-foot store, at 3120 S. Pine St. in Nalley Valley, is the newest of 31 Goodwill outlets in the region...
View ArticleBass Pro Shops plans to open first Pacific Northwest Store in Tacoma
Missouri-based Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World will open its first store in the region next summer, according to a news release this morning. It will be off Interestate 5 and South 72nd Street. Here’s...
View ArticleLush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics plans opening next week at Tacoma Mall
The new Tacoma store for Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics plans to open next week, store representatives told me today. As we reported in early February, Lush is one of four new stores coming to the mall...
View ArticleTacoma McMenamins is the topic of lunch panel in two weeks
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. Commercial Real Estate Women Seattle & Sound are...
View ArticlePrivate developer, public housing authority float plan to develop well-known...
A private developer and Tacoma’s public housing authority are in the early stages of plans to revitalize two 100-year-old buildings and bring more apartments to the Hilltop neighborhood. Developer...
View ArticleMother’s Day: By the Numbers
Mother’s Day in the USA: 2013 1908: In West Virginia, the year Anna Jarvis organized the first Mother’s Day. $168.94: Average that will be spent on each mother in 2013, up 11 percent from 2012. $20.7...
View ArticleNew card deck will count 54 more ways that Tacoma is beautiful
This just in from two of Tacoma’s creative advocates: Tacoma Makes plans a second deck of Tacoma playing cards, to be released this fall. The first deck, which we’ll now call the blue deck, was...
View ArticleBuilder to begin constructing 143 single-family homes in Eastside’s New Salishan
The Tacoma Housing Authority took a major step this week in advancing the rebirth of the former Salishan public housing project on Tacoma’s Eastside as a major mixed-use housing development. The...
View ArticleFoss Waterway Development Authority elevates interim director to permanent...
The municipal authority that promotes and governs redevelopment of downtown Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway has named Su Dowie as its executive director. Dowie had served as the authority’s interim...
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