Help Make First Night A Success
First Night Tacoma-Pierce County is looking for folks to help meet their July 31 deadline for a $4,000 matching grant opportunity that will jumpstart the fundraising and planning for this New Year’s Eve’s fabulous arts-centric, fun-for-all-ages bash! So if you donate by July 31, your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
You can donate via PayPal on the sponsor page at First Night’s website, www.firstnighttacoma.org. Or, you can snail mail donations to “First Night Tacoma-Pierce County,” P.O. Box 1861, Tacoma WA 98401.
And if you’re able to offer a $100 to this good cause, consider one of First Night’s “Friend of First Night” membership opportunities and you not only get your button ordering taken care of, but any donation over $100 gets you all-access credentials that get you into the VIP reception area. Check out the website for more information!
More information at FirstNightTacoma.org
8 comments
J Jesse June 25, 2008
This is good news… but could someone tell Tacoma Boys Grocery to move into the USA of Yesterday spot. That’d be grand… I think it’d make a perfect Tacoma Boys!!!
Thank you for allowing me to sponsor grocery store rumor #89. I appreciate it.
J Jesse June 25, 2008
Oh, sorry… AND move USA of Yesterday down by the location of the new car museum…
C CA June 25, 2008
If the hotel ever gets built between Theas Landing and The Esplanade I think this store would do some great business. And maybe there’s a huge untapped market with all those boaters in the water just needing bread, meats, cheeses, and the like. It’s also not too far a walk from all the action on Pacific. People just need to know it’s down there.
M Mofo from the Hood June 25, 2008
12pk. MGD $8.99?
D drizell June 25, 2008
That’s a good point, CA. It should also try to attract some museum traffic. Some folks don’t want to pay $15 for a sandwich at the museum cafe. That spot is probably the best location for a grocery store on the Dock Street side of the building. It’s no surprise that retail really hasn’t taken off down there. There simply aren’t enough people, and those who do venture down Dock Street get blasted by 130 decibels of BNSF locomotives.
This is off the subject, but I wonder if the closure of A Street will stop all the blasting of the horns.
H Heather June 26, 2008
Just to clarify is the spot between the Thea’s Landing and the Esplanade slated for a hotel? Or is that the spot where the plan was recently revised/resubmitted to be mostly office space, with some residential and retail?
B beerBoy June 26, 2008
1300 sf “grocery store”. Yah sure ya betcha!
I am amazed that Urban Dog lasted as long as it did. Very niche market there.
And it is likely that Thea’s Market will be rather niche as well. Think Yup-scale C-store.
“$15 for a sandwich at the Museum Cafe – forget that – I can get one for $14.95 at Thea’s Market!”
J Jake June 26, 2008
Heather,
Between Thea’s Landing and the Esplanade is where the Hotel (with a ever shrinking amount of condos) is planned. It is being developed by the guy that owns Inn at the Market in Seattle.
The revised Prium office project is south of Alber’s Mill.