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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2014
Vol. CXXIII, No. 99
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Moving day for Tacoma's massive Sun King sculpture Posted online Weds., May 21 Article and Photos By Todd Matthews, Editor After sitting in storage for nearly a decade, Tacoma's Sun King sculpture was on the move this week. The Tacoma Daily Index was at the City of Tacoma's Fleet Operations Headquarters Wednesday morning to watch contractors move the three massive pieces of the three-ton, 15-foot-tall, 22-foot-wide bronze-andsteel sculpture out of storage and onto flatbed trailers for transport to a public park at South 15th Street and Dock Street, near Thea Foss Waterway. It was the end of a long journey for a piece of public art that was installed in late-March of 1976 near the corner of Broadway and South 13th Street, just steps from the 25-story, 338-room Sheraton Hotel. Seven years ago, however, Sun King was placed in storage to make way for the glass-and-steel sculpture "Orizon" by Greek artist Costas Varotsos. The expensive, 104-foottall sculpture was a signal of sorts for a new era—the former Sheraton Hotel was stylishly renovated and renamed Hotel Murano; Sun King, which was originally commissioned for $35,000, was displaced (see "Sun King Dethroned: Can Tacoma ever appreciate this piece of public art?" Tacoma Daily Index, February 5, 2014). In December, the City began to accept bids on a $25,000 project that would take Sun King out of storage and place it in a City-owned public park (see "A new home for Tacoma's Sun King?" Tacoma Daily Index, December 3, 2013). Five companies submitted bids. Puyallup, Wash.-based D & D Construction was awarded the contract. In February, the Tacoma Daily Index was invited to view the sculpture, which has been stored for two years at the City's Fleet Operations Headquarters—a sprawling, 75,000-square-foot, hangar-like structure where more than two-dozen City employees service and maintain some 1,200 police cars, garbage trucks, fire engines, and electric vehicles (see "Sun King In Storage: It's no castle, but a Tacoma repair shop is home for now," Tacoma Daily Index, February 11, 2014). Meanwhile, record rainfall in March delayed slight-
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ly Sun King's return (see "Record Tacoma rainfall stalls Sun King's return," Tacoma Daily Index, April 1, 2014). But in April, the contractor cordoned off the park and poured concrete for the sculpture's base (see "Could Tacoma's Sun King see light of day by summer?" Tacoma Daily Index, February 26, 2014; "Park preparations begin for Tacoma's Sun King installation," Tacoma Daily Index, April 11, 2014; and
"Sun King sculpture to be placed in Tacoma park this month," Tacoma Daily Index, May 13, 2014). The Tacoma Daily Index will publish a feature article about the sculpture, its restoration, and the move— including interviews with City of Tacoma Arts Administrator Amy McBride, City of Tacoma Public Works Project Engineer Dan Cederlund, and Morandi—on Friday. Until then, we began to post photographs and interview excerpts on Wednesday afternoon online at tacomadailyindex.com.