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Tacoma’s former Amtrak station trashed, burned, covered in graffiti. Who’s responsible? By Craig Sailor. September 13, 2023 10:00 AM.
Sep. 13—One of Tacoma's former train depots is a beloved city icon while the other is an eyesore on the city's horizon. Less than a mile from the Beaux-Arts glory of Union Station is the squat ...
Terry Richard / The OregonianThe Bridge of Glass leads to the Museum of Glass' "wigwam style'' hot house in Tacoma.Two 20-foot chandeliers by glass sculptor extraordinaire Dale Chihuly . . . a ...
When Amtrak three decades ago announced it was shutting down operations at Tacoma’s grand but crumbling and oversized Union Station and replacing it with a pedestrian brick box of a building on ...
Arrival of a new Amtrak station in Tacoma must stay on schedule. The station is slated to go in the century-old Freighthouse Square and if it doesn't open by summer 2017, it loses federal stimulus ...
Rail bypass near Tacoma reopens four years after fatal Amtrak derailment By Kristian Foden-Vencil ( OPB ) Nov. 10, 2021 10:41 p.m. Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 10:58 p.m.
TACOMA, Wash. -- The Washington State Department of Transportation wants to build a new Amtrak Station at Freighthouse Square in Tacoma, but those plans are on hold. Negotiations between the ...
The new Amtrak station in Tacoma Portland recently approved the country's first all-wood high-rise , but cross-laminated timber is being used in a wide variety of construction projects.