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Business
$450,000 available for employee training
WorkForce Central (WFC) is inviting Pierce County businesses to apply for funding assistance to enhance their employees’ skills. A total of $450,000 is available to help multiple businesses with costs related to training. Read more...
Tacoma Curves helps women get fit in 2010
Curves for Women has set a new goal this year. Read more...
Driving boaters to downtown businesses
A manager of two marinas has a plan to get visiting boaters to spend more money downtown. Read more...
Satellite Coffee combines with Smooth and Juicey on Market Street
Just 10 months after opening his second Satellite Coffee shop on 6th Avenue inside of Masa, coffee entrepreneur Pat Brown has opened up the third in his lineup of shops offering Stumptown Coffee next to the downtown YMCA on Market Street. And similar to his last venture inside Masa, this shop is not a solo effort. Read more...
Port pitches commitment program to customers
Agreement offers financial assistance for lease extensions
Port of Tacoma Commission approved a new program aimed at providing financial assistance to struggling terminal operators. Read more...
Record setting year for unemployment claims
The recession was one of the more prominent news stories of 2009, with good reason: more Washingtonians were unemployed, more received unemployment benefits and more sought job-search assistance than ever before. Read more...
Vino Aquino continues its mission of bringing great wines to Tacomans
After eight years in its original location at 2607 6th Ave., Vino Aquino winery moved from its longtime home this past summer to a new place of business at 4417 6th Ave. Neatly tucked inside a street-level storefront along a mostly-residential section of 6th Avenue, Vino Aquino’s look may have changed but the family owned and operated business’s attention to making and selling great wines continues without a hitch. Read more...
City implements nightclub safety regulations
As a result of an ordinance passed by Tacoma City Council earlier this month, security guards in nightclubs will have to be licensed and go through a training program taught by police officers. This is similar to a requirement in place in Seattle. Read more...
Pacific Plaza will lease to AG’s office
In his last Tacoma City Council meeting before leaving office, Mayor Bill Baarsma cast the deciding vote that will allow the developers of Pacific Plaza to lease space on the street level of the downtown structure to the Tacoma office of the state Attorney General. Councilmembers Marilyn Strickland, Connie Ladenburg, Spiro Manthou and Mike Lonergan explained their reasons for why they would approve the request from the business partnership, while Rick Talbert, Jake Fey and Lauren Walker discussed why they would vote no. Read more...
Bumpy ride on the economic highway
Tacoma’s two premier economists shared their analysis of the current recession, which they described as the worst in the past 40 years, and their insight into a recovery from it in the future. Read more...
