Tacoma has plenty of open water where seaplanes can land, but it has long lacked a suitable place where those planes can tie up and receive and discharge passengers.
That deficiency is due for a remedy next month when a long-sought seaplane float arrives at the mouth of the Thea Foss Waterway.
The float, a project of the Tacoma Waterfront Association and the Foss Waterway Development Authority, will be attached to an existing dock at the north end of the waterway near Thea’s Park.
Su Dowie, acting development authority director, said the float is being modified now by Tacoma dock …