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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013
Vol. CXXIV, No. 44
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A buyer emerges for Tacoma's shuttered Swan Creek Library Posted online Tues., March 5 Article and Photo By Todd Matthews, Editor More than two years after it was shuttered due to budget cuts, the former Swan Creek Library building on Tacoma's east side appears poised to be sold. Tacoma City Council is expected to vote on a resolution later this month to authorize the sale of the building, which is owned by the City of Tacoma and located at 3828 Portland Avenue, to "4 Rent Check. com, LLC" for $91,000. More than two The building was on the years after it was market for most of last year. shuttered due to At one point, the city was budget cuts, the asking as much as $400,000 former Swan Creek for the property. The city isLibrary buildsued two requests for proing on Tacoma's posals, held two open houses east side appears for potential buyers, and poised to be sold for $91,000 and even lowered the minimum asking price from $400,000 reopened as a daycare center. Tacoto $300,000. In October, city ma City Council is officials hired a local real expected to vote on estate broker, First Western the issue later this Properties, to bolster its efmonth. fort to find the right buyer. The broker received four bids on the property. One condition of the property sale involved approval by an advisory committee consisting of representatives from the City of Tacoma, Tacoma Public Library, Eastside Neighborhoods Advisory Council of Tacoma, and the First Creek Stewardship Group in order to find a buyer who planned to use the property in a way that benefitted the surrounding community. "Based on their evaluation of the proposals, the Selection Advisory Committee is recommending
that the City sell the Swan Creek Library to 4 Rent Check.com, LLC, represented by Darren Gill," wrote Conor McCarthy, assistant division manager in the city’s real property services department, in a Feb. 25 memo requesting the resolution. "Gill has provided a comprehensive proposal to rehabilitate the facility and activate it for operation as a daycare center." In 1984, Tacoma paid Fellowship Bible Church
Forum offers tips for businesses to combat cyber crime Posted online Tues., March 5 Leaders in combating cyber crime and business identity theft will talk about trends and solutions for local companies at a forum this month in Lakewood. The forum, jointly sponsored by the Economic Development Departments of Pierce County and the City of Lakewood, will offer information about potential threats to businesses and what they can do to prevent or minimize intrusions. Public sector presenters include the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, the Washington Secretary of State Office of Corporations
and the Washington Attorney General's Office. Private sector presenters include Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), Symantec Corporation, Internet Identity, and a tech reporter from the Puget Sound Business Journal. The forum is free of charge, but registration is required. The event will be held on Weds., March 20, between 8:30 a.m. and noon at Lakewood City Hall Council Chambers, 6000 Main Street SW, in Lakewood. Register online at co.pierce. wa.us/FormCenter/Economic-Development-9/ Purchasing-Forum-Registration-65.
$37,500 for the property on which to build the Swan Creek branch, which cost $743,000 to construct, including $42,114 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. Tacoma also paid the church $11,000 in 1988 to acquire land for the library's parking lot. The library opened in 1989. In 2012, the assessed value totaled approximately $723,400. However, the Swan Creek branch building accrued approximately $450,000 in deferred maintenance: the roof and ventilation system needed to be replaced, and exterior walls and windows needed to be repaired. Last summer, the city sold the former Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Library building, located at 1902 South Cedar Street and shuttered since 2011, for $700,000 to a local doctor who plans to use the site as a non-profit medical center. Tacoma City Council is tentatively scheduled to vote on a resolution to sell the property during its meeting on Tues., March. 19, at 5 p.m. in City Council Chambers on the first floor of the Tacoma Municipal Building, located at 747 Market Street. Council meetings are streamed live online at tvtacoma.com and broadcast live on TV Tacoma.