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Congratulations to Rushforth Contruction on ABC Excellence Award
March 28, 2012In March 2012, Rushforth Construction received the ABC Excellence Award for the construction of Tahoma Market and Car Wash. The plan was for this $10 million project to be completed within 11 months (6 months for construction), which Rushforth successfully accomplished on-time, while coming in under budget... Read More
Cooperative study identifies Tacoma Tideflats area transportation improvements
October 14, 2011State and local transportation departments have a new tool to prioritize and seek funding for road and rail improvements in the Tacoma Tideflats area. The Tideflats Area Transportation Study came to two conclusions... Read More
Tahoma Market - Grand Opening!
April 29, 2011Tahoma Market will host its Grand Opening from April 29th - May 1st! Stop by all weekend long to take advantage of special offers throughout the store - including a FREE premium car wash (with a 5 gallon fuel purchase or $5 in-store purchase)... Read More
Tahoma Market is city’s quiet economic giant
April 4, 2010It started with a subtle whoosh rather than a bang — the March 1 opening of doors to Fife’s first grocery in more than a decade.After all, there was no hype and no big promotional efforts attached to the launch of the cool, contemporary Tahoma Market adjacent to the Emerald Queen Casino... Read More
Celebrating the deal that brought prosperity to the Puyallups
September 21, 2008The claims sounded so preposterous, many people thought at first they must be some kind of joke. The tiny Puyallup Tribe of Indians, impoverished and long marginalized, claimed in the 1980s that it owned the land under much of downtown Tacoma, the Port of Tacoma, Fife and Puyallup... Read More
First Defeat, then Victory
September 21, 2008To the great disappointment of negotiators on both sides of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians land claims issue, a deal they spent nearly two years working on was turned down by tribal members in February 1986. Despite approval by the Tribal Council, members voted 236-158 against it... Read More
Smooth Sailing in Congress
September 21, 2008The Land Claims Settlement agreed to by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in 1988 required an appropriation of more than $77 million in federal funds, a settlement amount second only to the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement. Despite the high cost, the Puyallup settlement sailed through Congress as if charmed... Read More
Incubator seeks $500,000 from city
September 11, 2008The ability of William M. Factory Small Business Incubator to build a second structure at its East Side location hinges on securing about $3... Read More
Fill up now: $3.89 gas in Tacoma
August 1, 2008The lines were three cars deep Thursday afternoon at the Arco station at Portland and Puyallup avenues in Tacoma as drivers enjoyed an unfamiliar sight: The sign on the regular pumps read $3.89 a gallon... Read More
Tacoma Shell station lowers price of gas to $3.99 per gallon
July 24, 2008It seems like it was only a few days before Memorial Day that a gallon of regular hit $4 in Tacoma. Now, as of about an hour ago, it’s back... Read More
Port, Puyallup Tribe, SSA Marine agree on Blair waterway development plan
April 23, 2008The Port of Tacoma, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and SSA Marine have said they will cooperate on development of the east Blair Waterway on Tacoma’s Tideflats for shipping terminals. And after two months of sometimes tense negotiation, they now know what that cooperation will look like... Read More
Port of Tacoma, Puyallup Tribe, SSA Containers and Marine View Ventures sign historic agreements
April 22, 2008At a special Port of Tacoma Commission meeting today, officials representing the Port of Tacoma Commission, SSA Containers Inc., the Puyallup Tribal Council and Marine View Ventures (MVV), the economic development arm of the Puyallup Tribe, signed four key agreements that focus on cooperation and coordination of marine terminal developments on the Blair-Hylebos Peninsula... Read More
Port-tribe agreement promises boom on Blair
February 15, 2008Now here’s a trade up: an empty riverboat casino for giant container ships unloading at a soon-to-be-built tribal terminal on the Blair Waterway. We’ll take that deal any day... Read More
Port of Tacoma, Puyallup Tribe, SSA Marine have new plan for Blair Waterway
February 14, 2008For the first time, the three key players involved in developing the Blair-Hylebos Peninsula into a hub of maritime business are cooperating. The Port of Tacoma, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians and SSA Marine have negotiated a deal that will help each party realize its dream to build shipping container terminals on the east side of the Blair Waterway on Tacoma’s Tideflats... Read More