Another Downtown Grocery Store Rumor

The birds are chirping away again. What have we heard? You promise not to tell? What we hear is that a grocery store may be landing at Sixth and St. Helens. We haven’t been able to confirm it so this could be overoptimistic speculation. But… we’ve been told that we’ll be very surprised when the announcement goes out. Somebody mentioned something about a Bavarian themed backup plan, but I’ll ignore that bit for now. The neighborhood is the most dense area of new condo action in Tacoma. Triangle Townhomes. The Walker. Bridge. Several Prium and Metropolitan Real Estate Development projects within a block or two. I could see it. I’ll believe it when…

Updated:

The good folks at Forward Tacoma have announced more details:

…in a joint venture between Metropolitan Real Estate Development, Beaver Brinkman and Walt Sharp, a mixed-use development of approximately 526,000 square feet will be constructed. Known as the Sharp Project, this development has been planned to include more than 150 residential units and over 100,000 square feet of commercial space by 2008.

They’re currently negotiating with potential tenants for the commercial space usage in the Sharp Project, including a hotel and three different grocery store chains.

More Details at Metropolitan Real Estate Development

Link to Forward Tacoma