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It is owned by Simon Property Group. An economic setback for the city occurred in September when Russell Investments , which has been in downtown Tacoma since its inception in , announced it was moving its headquarters to Seattle along with several hundred white-collar jobs. Tacoma's system of transportation is based primarily on the automobile. The majority of the city has a system of gridded streets oriented in relation to A Street one block east of Pacific Avenue and 6th Avenue or Division Avenue, both beginning in downtown Tacoma. Within the city, and with a few exceptions, east-to-west streets are numbered and north-to-south streets are given a name or a letter.

Some east-to-west streets are also given names, such as S. Streets are generally labeled "North", "South", "East", or "North East" according to their relationship with 6th Avenue or Division Avenue west of 'Division Ave', '6th Avenue' is the lowest-numbered street, making it the dividing street between "North" and "South" , 'A Street' which is the dividing line between "East" and "South" , or 1st Street NE which is the dividing line between "East" and "North East".

This can lead to confusion, as most named streets intersect streets of the same number in both north and south Tacoma.

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Tacoma does have some major roads which do not seem to follow any naming rules. These major arterials actually shift over to align with other roads, which causes them to have the name changed. This numeric system extends to the furthest reaches of unincorporated Pierce County with roads outside of the city carrying "East", "West", "North West", and "South West", except on the Key Peninsula , which retains the north-south streets but chooses the Pierce—Kitsap county line as the zero point for east-west streets. In portions of the city dating back to the Tacoma Streetcar Period — , denser mixed-use business districts exist alongside single family homes.

Twelve such districts have active, city-recognized business associations and hold "small town"-style parades and other festivals.

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Seven highways end in or pass through Tacoma: The dominant intercity transportation link between Tacoma and other parts of the Puget Sound is Interstate 5 , which links Tacoma with Seattle to the north and Portland, Oregon , to the south. Public transportation in Tacoma includes buses, commuter rail, light rail , and ferries. Pierce Transit operates 43 bus routes five of which through Sound Transit , using a fleet of buses powered by compressed natural gas , diesel, and electric batteries.

Bus service operates at 30—60 minute frequencies daily, while three heavily ridden "trunk" routes are mostly served every 20 minutes on weekdays and every half-hour to an hour on weekends as of October 2, Sound Transit , the regional transit authority, provides weekday Sounder Commuter Rail service and daily express bus service to and from Seattle. Sound Transit has also established Tacoma Link light rail , a 1. Expansion of the city's rail transit system is in planning stages by the city of Tacoma and Sound Transit. It will then turn south along Martin Luther King Jr.

Way and end near South 19th Street. Greyhound intercity bus service is accessible via Tacoma Dome Station.

Amtrak , the national passenger rail system, provides service to Tacoma from Tacoma Dome Station. The Cascades trains, operating as far north as Vancouver, British Columbia and as far south as Eugene, Oregon , serve Tacoma several times daily in both directions. Tacoma's relationship with public utilities extends back to At that time the city was undergoing a boom in population, causing it to exceed the available amount of fresh water supplied by Charles B. In response to both this demand and a growing desire to have local public control over the utility system, the city council put up a public vote to acquire and expand the private utility.

The measure passed on July 1, , with 3, in favor of acquiring the utility system and 1, voting against. Since then, Tacoma Public Utilities TPU has grown from a small water and light utility to be the largest department in the city's government, employing about 1, people. Tacoma Power , a division of TPU, provides residents of Tacoma and several bordering municipalities with electrical power generated by eight hydroelectric dams on the Skokomish River and elsewhere.

Supreme court [54] in January Tacoma Power also operates the Click! Network , a municipally owned cable television and internet service. The residential cost per kilowatt hour of electricity is just over 6 cents. Tacoma Water provides customers in its service area with water from the Green River Watershed.

As of , Tacoma Water provided water services to 93, customers. Tacoma Rail , initially a municipally owned street railway line running to the tideflats, was converted to a common-carrier rail switching utility. Tacoma Rail is self-supporting and employs over 90 people. In addition to municipal garbage collection, Tacoma offers commingled recycling services for paper, cardboard, plastics, and metals.

Parks and recreation services in and around Tacoma are governed by Metro Parks Tacoma , a municipal corporation established as a separate entity from the city government in Metro Parks maintains over fifty parks and open spaces in Tacoma. Point Defiance Park , one of the largest urban parks in the country at acres , is in Tacoma. There are many historic structures within the park, including the Pagoda, which was originally built as a streetcar waiting room.

It was restored in and now serves as a rental facility for weddings and private parties. Ruston Way is a waterfront area along Commencement Bay north of downtown Tacoma that hosts several public parks connected by a multi-use trail and interspersed with restaurants and other businesses. There are several beaches along Ruston Way with public access, some of which are also popular for scuba diving.

Another large park in Tacoma is Wapato Park, which has a lake and walking trails that circle the lake. Wapato is in Tacoma's south end, at Sheridan and 72nd St. Titlow Beach , at the end of 6th Avenue, is a popular scuba diving area. It contains Wright Park Arboretum and the W. This beautiful historic park is also the home of local festivals such as Ethnic Fest, [60] Out in the Park Tacoma's Pride festival [61] , and the Tacoma Hempfest Tacoma's annual gathering advocating decriminalization of marijuana.

Jefferson Park in North Tacoma is the location of a new sprayground, an area designed to be a safe and unique play area where water is sprayed from structures or ground sprays and then drained away before it can accumulate. In response to the Tacoma area's growing dog population and stricter leash laws in many areas, dog parks have begun to be established. Rogers Off-Leash Dog Park is a metro public park established in Russell , and Silas E. Two suspension bridges span a narrow section of the Salish Sea called the Tacoma Narrows.

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The failure of the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge , which was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world, is a famous case study in architecture textbooks. The city of Tacoma has an active municipal historic preservation program, which includes individual city landmarks and over 1, historic properties included within five locally regulated historic overlay zones.

The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in The building houses a pub and microbrewery. It was built in for the Port of Tacoma by the Coastline Shipbuilding Company, and served for 54 years in waterfront fire protection, harbor security patrols, search and rescue missions, and water pollution control. It is one of only five fireboats designated as a National Historic Landmark.

Visitors are able to walk around her exterior, but her interior is closed to the public. Russell architect and Charles Miller contractor. Murray Morgan Bridge is a steel lift bridge across the Thea Foss Waterway ; it closed in to all automobile traffic due to its deteriorating condition but was reopened in February to all traffic following a substantial rehabilitation. Tacoma's main public school district is Tacoma Public Schools.

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Tacoma is also home to three charter public schools: Sheridan Elementary School operated three foreign-language immersion programs Spanish, French, and Japanese. Tacoma School of the Arts, opened in in downtown Tacoma, is an arts-focused high school that serves as a national model for educational innovation. SOTA is a public school, part of the Tacoma Public Schools, and is one of the nation's first schools to implement standards-based instruction, influencing the design of many schools in the nation. Its circulation is about 85, , on Sundays , making it the state's third-largest newspaper.

A daily newspaper has been in circulation in Tacoma since Between and , four dailies were published: It broadcasts on digital channel 27, University of Washington Tacoma's weekly student-run newspaper The Ledger is also circulated around downtown Tacoma. The city has struggled to keep a minor league hockey franchise. The Tacoma Dome still hosts traveling sports and other events, such as pro-wrestling, figure-skating tours, and the Harlem Globetrotters.

At one point, the Tacoma Dome was home to a professional indoor soccer team, the Tacoma Stars. Tacoma is home to the all-female flat track roller derby league Dockyard Derby Dames, [76] which fields an away team. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. City in Washington, United States.

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