National Meth Center for Pierce County?
So it would appear that Patty Murray has secured funding for a national meth center in Pierce County for “training, education, prevention, and treatment resources all in one facility.” I don’t know what to say… Drug treatment is good. Investment and jobs are good. Does it have to be here?
Link to The News Tribune’s Editor Blog
Thank you, Erik B.
3 comments
N NSHDscott June 26, 2008
We as a city gave into ST’s insistence on building this rail line through downtown, so it seems like we as a city should be able to demand that it be built as we want. Do we as a city have the guts?
A metal trellis structure not only makes it easier to “turn lemons into lemonade” by doing something unique with the structure as David has shown here, and it not only keeps roads open and safe. It’s also stylistically more in line with Tacoma’s industrial past than an earthen dam would be. Metal latticing is all over the Murray Morgan Bridge, for example, and it’s cool! I love this idea. A big ridge of dirt? That’s just weird.
D Dave June 26, 2008
Huh? “We gave in to ST’s insistence”??? It was intended to run on existing line all along. ST is where they are because that’s where the tracks are.
Not that I don’t like David’s thinking — his concerns about the impending bisection of the Dome district are highly prescient — but this looks spendy.
D David Boe June 30, 2008
Spendy is as Spendy does – what is the cost of lowering all of the infrastructure to/from Pacific Avenue with the current design? What is the cost to all of the business in the area when construction shuts down the district to accomplish this? What is the cost of removing all the un-suitable soils along the route to build the wall as the ravine at B is an old stream bed? What are the potential costs to review and excavate historical items along this route as this was approximately the site of the old Delin Mill – Native American artificats? What are the long-term economic costs to building a wall separating a district? Seems that a modular concrete component system that would allow for uses below and through the structure that is on pier columns to concentrate foundation requirements that can span existing infrastructure and that can also be expanded as additional rail lines are added might not be so expensive when taking into account total development ‘costs.’