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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Sumner keeping eye on how to further expand
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Sumner has grown rapidly since opening in 2009, and its local director of operations said Wednesday he has his eye on how it might further expand. No plans are...
View ArticleTacoma port commissioner questions design costs for re-roofing projects
Port of Tacoma Commissioner Connie Bacon Thursday questioned the necessity of the port spending more than $476,000 planning the reroofing of three port buildings. Bacon, who in recent months has taken...
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UPDATED: It’s official — The leases are signed, and State Farm is expanding...
State Farm has finalized the agreements to open new offices in downtown Tacoma, the company told The News Tribune this morning, making official the exciting news that’s percolated for weeks. “We have...
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Boeing slowing 747-8 production
Slow sales of Boeing’s largest plane, the 747-8, are causing the aircraft maker to adjust its production rate to 1.75 planes a month, the company announced Friday. Boeing has recorded orders for only...
View ArticleBoeing engineers’ union complains Boeing outsourcing work to Moscow while...
Boeing is planning to send more work to its Moscow Design Center even as it makes plans to lay off up to 1,700 engineers in the Puget Sound area, the union representing those engineers claims. The...
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FAA approves Boeing’s Dreamliner battery woes solution; Boeing teams begin...
Boeing engineering and maintenance teams staged at locations around the world Friday began battery modifications to get airlines’ fleets of 787 Dreamliners, grounded since January, back in service....
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Tacoma port business continues to eclipse last year’s
The Port of Tacoma’s critical container trade continued its substantial growth through the first three months of 2013, new port figures show. The port’s total container trade in March was almost 30...
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Update on Tehaleh (formerly known as Cascadia): Almost 100 homes sold
Buried in my inbox is a note sent in early April from Liv Faris, who does public relations for the massive planned community in East Pierce County called Tehaleh. Called Cascadia for two decades,...
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Air traffic controller furloughs having little effect on Sea-Tac flights Monday
Federal air traffic controller furloughs were having little effect on flights arriving and departing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Monday. A few flights to and from Los Angeles International...
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Longshore lottery winners posted
And the winners are…. The long-awaited list of the 226 people chosen in an April 8 lottery drawing to be available for entry-level Tacoma Longshore Union work is now available on the websites of...
View ArticleShort sales up 77 percent in Pierce County in Q1 compared to Q1 2012
Short sales in Pierce County were up 77 percent in the first quarter, compared to short sales recorded in the first quarter last year. In its quarterly report, Bellevue-based Washington Property...
View ArticleSeattle port container volume declines as Tacoma rises
Container volume declined by some 30 percent in March at the Port of Seattle bringing the year-to-date container traffic down by 19.1 percent, the Port of Seattle reported Monday. That decline, said...
View ArticleGood news on the gas front; prices still declining in the South Sound
Gas prices continued an unseasonable decline today in the South Sound. The price of a gallon of regular unleaded averaged $3.61 a gallon in the Tacoma area Monday. That’s about seven cents less than a...
View ArticleDrug trials company closing Tacoma site, laying off up to 43
The Tacoma branch of a Florida-based clinical drug trials company is closing. Comprehensive Clinical Development has issued a layoff warning notice to 43 employees. Company officials said no ongoing...
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Boeing earnings up despite Dreamliner grounding, sequester
Boeing Co. earnings per share increased by 24 percent in the first quarter despite battery problems with its new 787 Dreamliner and the federal budget sequester which trimmed military spending. Those...
View ArticleSmall business owners in Washington remain pessimistic, US Bank survey says
Boeing may be busy, employment may be rising and stocks are once again touching all-time highs, but small businesses owners in Washington continue singing the blues. The results of a survey released...
View ArticleTacoma’s TrueBlue reports higher revenues, but still records loss
Tacoma-based temporary labor provider TrueBlue Inc. today reported revenue increased some 11 percent in the first quarter of 2013 but a $1.5 million profit in last year’s first quarter turned into a...
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SeaTac’s Alaska Air Group posts record quarterly profits
This year’s first quarter, traditionally the weakest for Sea-Tac’s Alaska Air Group because of the dearth of tourist traffic to its namesake state, again produced record profits, the company announced...
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All Nippon Airways may not resume Sea-Tac flights to Tokyo until September
Despite battery fixes that will likely put its fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners back in the air next month, All Nippon Airways may not resume its 787 service from Tokyo to Seattle until September....
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Sea-Tac traffic up four percent for the year
If you felt Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was just a skosh more crowded the last time you visited, your instincts aren’t betraying you. New figures for the first two months of 2013 show the...
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