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Bass Pro Shops plans to open first Pacific Northwest Store in Tacoma
Missouri-based Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World will open its first store in the region next summer, according to a news release this morning. It will be off Interestate 5 and South 72nd Street. Here’s...
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Two incumbent Port of Tacoma commissioners say they’re running for office again
Two incumbent Port of Tacoma commissioners say they’re gearing up to run for re-election. Both commission President Don Meyer and longtime Commissioner Dick Marzano said this week they’ve decided to...
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Revival of housing market drives Weyerhaeuser profits higher
Federal Way’s Weyerhaeuser Co. rode the reviving housing business to sharply higher profits in the first quarter, the highest quarterly earnings since 2005, the company said today. The results even...
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News Tribune parent company reports first quarter results
The McClatchy Co., the California-based parent company of The News Tribune and The Olympian, this week reported first quarter losses of $12.7 million or 15 cents a share. Part of those losses were...
View ArticleBoeing issues layoff notice for 99 more workers
Boeing sent out layoff warning notices today to 99 more workers as the company continues to scale back extra staff once needed to bring its 787 Dreamliner production up to speed. Most of those...
View ArticleMilgard School of Business dinner and award ceremony tickets remain available
Tickets remain for Tuesday evening’s banquet and ceremony honoring the five winners of the University of Washington Tacoma Milgard School of Business 12th Annual Business Leadership Awards. This year’s...
View ArticlePort of Tacoma’s Washington Union Terminal shut down by pickets
The Port of Tacoma’s Washington Union Terminal, a container terminal where Grand Alliance ships call, was shut down Tuesday morning after retired longshore workers began picketing the facility on Port...
View ArticleSea-Tac garage fire destroys eight cars, damages 10 others
An early morning garage fire at Sea-Tac Airport has destroyed eight cars and damaged 10 more. Investigators probing the fire believe it began in a single car with a mechanical defect. Firefighters...
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Artist live/work space possibilities in Tacoma (Brewery District *cough...
A national nonprofit known for developing buildings into live/work studios for artists is on its way to Tacoma, planning to study whether it could happen here. Artspace will do a feasibility study May...
View ArticlePort terminal open again after Tuesday shutdown
Trucks were rolling into the Port of Tacoma’s Washington United Terminal Wednesday after a nearly day-long shutdown Tuesday. That terminal closure was prompted by picketing retired longshore union...
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Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics plans opening next week at Tacoma Mall
The new Tacoma store for Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics plans to open next week, store representatives told me today. As we reported in early February, Lush is one of four new stores coming to the mall...
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Tacoma McMenamins is the topic of lunch panel in two weeks
Perhaps, dear readers, we might learn a few more details about the McMenamins’ plans for the Tacoma Elks Temple after a luncheon in two weeks. Commercial Real Estate Women Seattle & Sound are...
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Conservation group hires former Port of Tacoma CEO Tim Farrell
Washington’s largest non-profit conservation and urban planning organization has hired the Port of Tacoma’s former executive director, Tim Farrell, as its new chief program officer. Farrell will lead...
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Slimmer seats offer quick payback for SeaTac’s Alaska Airlines
Airline passengers may not be growing slimmer, but their seats are, and that’s good news for SeaTac-based Alaska Airlines. The airline says it plans to spend $100 million on replacing the seats in...
View ArticleLong-sought seaplane float coming to Tacoma in June
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...
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Foss Hotel could break ground within a month
We’ve sounded the drum roll before for this event only to have opponents’ court action force cancellation of the ceremony. But here goes nonetheless: Groundbreaking for the long-awaited hotel on...
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Copperline interiors feature decks, interior courtyard in Point Ruston’s...
Point Ruston, the billion-dollar mixed-use development on the site of the old Asarco copper smelter near Point Defiance Park, opened its first major building this week. The building, the Copperline...
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SeaTac-based Alaska Air Group shows passenger traffic increase of 8.5 percent...
Alaska Air Group, the SeaTac-based parent of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, saw its passenger traffic jump by 8.5 percent last month, the company reports. The company’s capacity, however, grew at a...
View ArticleSouth Sound gas prices moving upward again
After a nearly month-long decline, South Sound gasoline prices are climbing upward again this week. The average price of a gallon of unleaded regular in the Tacoma area hit nearly $3.73 a gallon...
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ANA to resume service from SeaTac to Tokyo June 1, but without Dreamliner
All Nippon Airways, which halted service from Sea-Tac Airport to Tokyo earlier this year when aviation authorities worldwide grounded Boeing Dreamliners, will resume Sea-Tac service beginning June 1....
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