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Vol. CXXIV, No. 58
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Downtown Tacoma
2 new murals brighten 11th & Market
Posted online Tues., March 25 Photos Courtesy Spaceworks Tacoma A vacant building at the corner of South 11th Street and Market Street will soon boast two new murals that aim to activate the intersection, prevent vandalism, and foster creativity. Artist Chelsea O'Sullivan is creating Turn on Spring, a long mural on a series of 10 large panels running down South 11th Street. "Early spring in Tacoma can be a little gray," says O'Sullivan. "It rains, a lot. It is chilly. Driving into town is always beautiful, but where the city skyline meets with the clouds, they share the same hue and fade into one another. My goal is to capture the beauty that lives in this gray world and explode some color into it." On Market Street, artist Diana Leigh Surma is painting Show Your Stripes, an intricately laid out design of abstract geometric shapes. "This project celebrates the revitalization of Tacoma's bustling downtown corridor and encourages youth participation in the arts," says Surma. "The design incorporates bold colors and overlapping planes that stretch across the mural's surface to create a unified composition. Like the networks of shapes that shift before the viewer's eyes, Tacoma is a city constantly transforming and reinventing itself. However, the roots of its history and traditions, its stripes, stand to remind us of what came before." These new murals are part of the eleventh round
TOP: A sneak preview of artist Chelsea O'Sullivan's work-in-progress "Turn On Spring," a long mural on a series of 10 large panels running down South 11th Street. RIGHT: Students from Seabury Middle School volunteer on the creation of artist Diana Leigh Surma's "Show Your Stripes," a Market Street mural of abstract geometric shapes. of Artscapes exhibitions organized by Spaceworks Tacoma. Over the course of the program, 84 large-scale art installations, murals, and videos, along with performances and events, have taken place in vacant storefronts throughout downtown Tacoma. This round of Artscapes applications were reviewed in October by a panel that included local art instructors, photographers, and other art specialists.
More information is available online at spaceworkstacoma.wordpress.com.
EDB picks Top 10 Tacoma, Pierce County projects Posted online Tues., March 25 The Economic Development Board (EDB) for Tacoma-Pierce County has announced its annual list of Top 10 economic development projects and investments worked on or completed between January and December of 2013. The list includes State Farm's decision to lease 300,000 square feet of Class A office space in the former Russell Investments headquarters building in downtown Tacoma, bringing 1,100 new jobs to the area; BNY Mellon's decision to renew its lease in a building on Broadway Plaza (where it has remained since 1999), keeping 170 jobs in downtown Tacoma; Niagara Bottling's decision to invest $50 million in a 311,000 square foot building in Frederickson and creating 45 new jobs; Western Institutional Review Board's de-
cision to relocate 200 employees from Thurston County to Puyallup, leasing 45,000 square feet at the Benaroya Business & Technology Center; the Sumner Distribution Center development project creating six warehouses totaling approximately two-million square feet; the University Place Town Center public/private partnership creating mixed-use, retail, office, and residential space; TriWest Healthcare Alliance's decision to open a customer support center at the South Hill Business and Technology Center in Puyallup, leasing 14,000 square feet and employing 100 people; the $150 million Point Ruston Copperline Condominiums project, which created 776 construction jobs in the area; the 4,200-acre, 5,900-home Tehaleh planned community in Bonney Lake; and the $18 million, 163-room Holi-
day Inn Express in downtown Tacoma's Brewery District. The list was announced on Fri., Feb. 28, during EDB's annual meeting at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center in downtown Tacoma. Similarly, Jeff Lyon—EDB board chair and CEO and chairman of commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews—presented the 2014 Golden Shovel Award to State Farm. According to Lyon, State Farm's decision to lease office space in downtown Tacoma had the largest economic impact on Pierce County over the past year and "injected new energy and economic activity into the area." More information is available online at edbtacomapierce.org.