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Ideas abound for Cheney Stadium, Foss High area development
A design and architecture firm hired by the Joint Municipal Action Committee (JMAC) to gauge residents and property…
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Open For Business? Study aims to kick-start downtown Tacoma's economic development
A consultant hired by the City of Tacoma to provide recommendations for sparking economic development downtown says the…
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Tacoma's landmarks commission recommends adding Frisko Freeze to historic register
The City of Tacoma's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously July 23 to recommend City Council add Frisko Freeze…
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Pierce County Landmarks Commission will revisit preservation grant applications in public forum
A Pierce County division manager has decided today to void a recommendation made earlier this month by the…
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Landmarks Commission will decide Frisko Freeze nomination today
The City of Tacoma's Landmarks Preservation Commission is expected to vote today on whether to recommend Frisko Freeze,…
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Downtown Ticor Title considers Tacoma relocation
Though not the equivalent of global financial services giant Russell Investments Group leaving town, Ticor Title Company has…
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Putting history in the Hilltop's future
Of the many labels Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood has had to shake in recent years, one that it's starting…
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Pierce County Landmarks Commission approves grant funding recommendations
The Pierce County Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission (LHPC) has announced it will recommend 15 organizations receive approximately…
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Tacoma Police: Special enforcement patrols net 500 pounds of illegal fireworks
That said, police officers responded to 441 fireworks-related calls. Thirty-nine percent of the calls originated in the city's…
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Developers seek LEED certification, $3 million from City to complete Pacific Plaza project
Tacoma City Council is expected to vote July 29 on a resolution that would appropriate $3 million toward…
!["The nice thing about a [passenger] train is you can see what the country looks like -- you can look right out into people's backyards," says historian, author, and retired railroad employee Jim Fredrickson, who has amassed a collection of passenger train memorabilia. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)](https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg?w=300)
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Long Distance Memories: A lifelong, photographic tour through Tacoma's passenger train history
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union…
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A Vital Link: Tacoma celebrates D Street Overpass opening
If there were ever any doubts about the merits of the D Street Overpass project -- with its…
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Tacoma Goodwill breaks ground on job center
Christine Zemanek, executive director the Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation, and local developer Hugh S. Ferguson (both pictured…