Some news/updates:
Broadway 505 has topped out:
4/17/08 - 505 is Topped Out!! We have reached our maximum height. The roof structure is in and will water-proofed soon. Exterior sheathing is being installed and rain-proofed in preparation for the brick and siding materials. Doors and windows are currently being installed. Scaffolding surrounds the building to make it all possible.
Walker North Building Demolished:
Not sure if they are going to actually start building the planned
8 story building or use the site for parking (for now).
The
Walker Building next door is well on its way of becoming high-end condos. The restuarant
Maxwell's Speakeasy and Lounge should be opening next week. This place should be a hit as the partners are Sean Quinn & Troy Christian from
El Gaucho,
Asado,
Masa fame and Matt Coloney, the Chef who helped open
Pacific Grill.
Walker North Demo:
Photo from
Tacoma Urbanist
Rainier Connect announced they have purchased the Pacific Brewery building in the Brewery District of Downtown Tacoma.
From the
TNT:
A company formed in 1910 and a building built in 1891 have married to mark the latest move toward the renaissance of Tacoma’s Brewery District.
Rainier Connect, a telecom company born of Eatonville’s Mashell Telephone Co., has bought the former offices and manufacturing facility of the National Cocoanut Butter Co. and National Cocoanut Butter Soap Co. Both companies were located in a pair of adjacent brick buildings that were part of the former Pacific Brewery complex in the 2500 block of South Holgate Street on the hillside south of University of Washington Tacoma, near the former Heidelberg Brewery.
Family-owned Rainier Connect paid $1.9 million for the two connected buildings – both brick, and the taller four stories high – and will spend another $2 million on renovation, said Brian Haynes, president and CEO.
and
Exit133.com:
The building is located in between M-Space and Tacoma Self Storage. It was once involved in brewing and malting. Later it produced coconut butter. By the early 1920s, the building was used to make soap. In 1978 the building found itself on the National Historic Register.
Tacoma Foss Waterway hotel eliminates condos from plans
The Seattle developers of a planned Foss Waterway Hotel are again back to the drawing boards with their plan for the boutique hotel on the near-downtown waterway.
This time they’re eliminating all but a handful of condominiums from the building and adding 60 rooms to the 100 they had planned, according to Don Meyer, executive director of the Thea Foss Waterway Development Authority.
Four years ago, another developer started planning an all-hotel building for the site on the west side of the Foss at South 15th Street.