Gov't Leadership Institute Talk: Tacoma on the Web
Tonight is the talk at UWT about Tacoma’s image in this web world of ours. I hope to be there. I hope at least a few of you are there too. From the City of Tacoma Newsroom:
Stop by the free Government Leadership Institute session at 6:45 p.m. March 6 to hear a discussion about the challenges and opportunities that arise from the explosion of Web-based news sources and why Tacoma is referred to as America’s #1 Wired City. The panel leading the session will include City of Tacoma Community Relations Supervisor Scott Huntley, TV Tacoma Supervisor Nancy Johnson and Tacoma News Tribune columnist Peter Callaghan. The free session will be held at the Keystone Auditorium, 1900 Commerce St. on the University of Washington Tacoma campus.
Does Exit133 count as a “challenge” or an “opportunity”? If you make it, please tell me what you think and send in your comments.
6 comments
E Erik B. June 20, 2012
Building something tall and big, the max allowed by zoning. Might be a great place for some high density student housing so that students do not need to (nearly) all commute to the campus.
C Cecil B June 20, 2012
Multilevel parking garage! Students are screaming for more parking, and with the new hotel going in at 21st and “c” street there will be even less parking available.
O OkayThen June 20, 2012
Ha! Love the contrast of comments #1 & 2. Easier to live close as opposed to easier commuting.
I’d like to see UWT focus on what the adjacent private land won’t provide: an education leading to a four year degree.
Other owners can build parking & residences. (Have you seen the empty stalls in nearby facilities? Why haven’t students filled Court 17?) Let’s let UWT focus on what they do best, what they are commissioned to do: educate our citizens.
A AreteTacoma June 20, 2012
In line with the above comment, I’d love to see a school of engineering. An environmental engineering, or civil engineering degree would go well with the city’s goal to develop a “Urban Clean Water Technology Innovation Partnership Zone.” There is a real deficit of engineering schools in the Puget Sound region, which is surprising when you consider the massive presence of Boeing and international shipping around here. If we want to attract high paying employers in technical fields, we need an educated workforce. Liberal arts degrees do not attract the kind of employers that can provide a foundation for an economy.
M Mofo from the Hood June 20, 2012
I never thought that the old Tacoma Transit Company bus turnaround property would be demolished in my lifetime. This historically important property predates Pierce Transit by decades, and it is one quaint piece of roadway that should have been preserved in perpetuity.
Must every street in post-1963 Tacoma be demolished, or narrowed, or cluttered with speed bumps, or intersection planters, or bike lanes, or government mandated trees, or blocked by convention centers, or converted to demolition derby routes lined with diagonally parked cars, or otherwise altered because of people with internet college degrees in grant writing?
C Cycle Nut June 22, 2012
@#1 I would be pissed if education dollars are spent for housing. There are pleny of available lots downtown with in walking distance that any developer could develop for housing.
Plus it would force students to walk places that are off campus.
If there is a need for student housing then the State should provide developer tax breaks for near by projects through it’s capital and CDBG budget.