Abandoned Match Factory to Become Candy Works
After years of litigation and silence, the industrial space on Tacoma's tideflats finds a new future in sweets and crackers.
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The match factory on the tideflats, which stands with bolted doors and silent machinery, will soon be put to practical use. The building, which tells a story of failure and litigation and is in the hands of a receiver, will soon be turned into a large candy and cracker factory. A syndicate is being organized to purchase the building for a venture that will be a benefit not only to Tacoma, but to the whole Pacific coast. G.W. Jolls, the candy man, is busy organizing this new syndicate, and there has already been enough stock subscribed by two gentlemen to purchase the building. Mr. Jolls is energetically pushing the matter to sell more stock, in order to purchase machinery and equipment, and in a short time Tacoma will have a new and thriving industry.
“The building, which tells a story of failure and litigation and is in the hands of a receiver, will soon be turned into a large candy and cracker factory.”
Tacoma’s tideflats, once the city's heavy industrial heart, are currently undergoing another massive transition as the city balances its history as a manufacturing hub with modern redevelopment pressures. The story of repurposing a failed industrial site into a local food venture mirrors the ongoing revitalization of Tacoma’s warehouse district and former factory spaces.
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