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Tacoma's Transformation

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: ArchNewsNow.com
26 June 2002 - 10:00am

Since 1990, over $1 billion in investment has transformed Tacoma's downtown into a lively hub of education, arts, and urban living.

"No one claims downtown Tacoma is on par with big-city centers like Seattle's. The developers, politicians, architects and planners who shaped Tacoma's transformation admit more needs to be done, particularly to bolster downtown's struggling stores.Yet many see the July 6 opening of the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art as a critical milestone in Tacoma's emerging future. Additional cultural development and continued growth of a full-time downtown population could create the critical mass needed to create a downtown unlike any in Tacoma's history, some say."

Full Story: A marvelous transformation
Source: Tacoma News Tribune, June 26, 2002
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