The project took nearly five years of planning and fundraising, but Tacoma finally has a dock where seaplanes can tie up.
The new dock at the mouth of the Thea Foss Waterway near downtown was formally dedicated at noon Wednesday. Two seaplanes, one individually owned, and the other from the nation’s largest seaplane airline, Kenmore Air, arrived to celebrate the dock’s inaugural.
Tacoma Deputy Mayor Marty Campbell said the new dock was another step in making Tacoma “a world-class city” with amenities befitting that status.
Until the new dock was installed near Thea’s Park on the west side of the …