Welcome to Tacoma, State Farm
We’ll give you the bad news first: parking may be about to get more complicated in downtown Tacoma. And we know how many of you love to complain about parking in our fair city.
Okay, with that out of the way, time for the good news: Tacoma will soon be home to State Farm workers, filling a lot previously vacant office space.
Rumors of the State Farm move began to swirl back in January. The plot thickened in April with the release of an internal memo in which the insurance company says it will move some offices to Tacoma. It looks now like it’s a reality.
Welcome to Tacoma State Farm.
UPDATE: According to the TNT, State Farm has signed two leases – one for the former Russell building, and one for the first four floors of the Columbia Bank building – for a total of about 300,000-square-feet of Class A office space. The insurance company plans to hire 300 employees this summer, but the space it is leasing could hold 1,100.
Filed under: Downtown Tacoma, Tacoma Business, Neighborhoods
5 comments
K Kristina Walker April 19, 2013
We can help you avoid parking challenges!
P Paul White April 19, 2013
I love walking!
J Jesse April 19, 2013
With this new influx of money and a recovering economy, is it time to get rid of the rest of the B&O tax?
C Chris April 20, 2013
Parking a problem in Downtown Tacoma? How angled parking interferes with transit movement on Pacific Avenue and costs Pierce Transit and Sound Transit a combined $3m/yr is a problem. How the superblock tombstone/cavern that is Park Plaza North interferes with pedestrian movement in Tacoma, is a problem.
We have plenty of on-street parking at 75 cents an hour and abundant off-street options. We have free light rail connecting to a free parking garage with several thousand stalls. Can we please stop talking about parking as a problem needing to be solved (with more parking)? C’mon Exit133.
T Terry April 21, 2013
The best news for Downtown is always outside money moving in and this is a big chunk of outside money. How many of those State Farm workers are going to park for free at the T-dome and ride the Link? Do we need even more free parking for downtown commuters? Who’s going to build it and where’s it going to be built? Running the new Link tracks to Emerald Queen and even more free parking look good now? Just fallow the money kids!